FORUM. Revue internationale d’interprétation et de traduction / International Journal of Interpretation and Translation - Volume 14, Issue 1, 2016

This study investigates the effectiveness of incorporating paraphrasing exercises into interpreter training, specifically in relation to interpreting from Chinese to English. owever, there is a lack of empirical data supporting the use of paraphrasing exercises in interpreter training. The quantitative and qualitative data collected from 85 interpreter trainees in this study suggest that paraphrasing may be an effective teaching approach, especially when trainees are learning to interpret from a high-context language to a low-context language. The data suggest that paraphrasing exercises benefit learners abilities to process the source language at both the structural and informational levels, as paraphrasing in interpreter training is not limited to semantic and syntactic changes. The articulation and checking of the paraphrased version also help to enhance source language comprehension and organization, leading to a better rendition in a different language.

Studies on teaching of interpretation and translation by continent and country, studies on different disciplines by degree level, the development of studies on interpretation and translation theory as well as the growing number of international publications in the field reveal that the discipline of interpretation and translation is gaining momentum in the academic circles.

With the development of the discipline, schools in Europe, America as well as in Asia are no longer satisfied with providing bachelors or masters level education, but now aim to offer PhD courses. Among the three major Asian countries including China, Japan and South Korea, two countries namely China and South Korea, currently offer a doctoral training in the discipline. And South Korea is the only Asian country to publish an international journal related to this discipline. In this regard, this journal will play an increasingly important role in helping bridge the gap between the East and the West.

This paper is the second in a series dealing with adaptations of Bob Dylan songs in French. The first one was about the merits and perils of being faithful. This one deals with various strategies that somehow take more liberties with the original material. Four non mutually-exclusive strategies are envisioned: twisting the message, turning ones adaptation into an answer song, disregarding the original lyrics altogether, or tactful shape-shifting. All strategies are supported by examples taken from a vast corpus of songs spanning five decades. The paper end with a discussion of the lessons that can be learned from such exercise for translation studies and for the translation profession as a whole.

This paper is the second in a series dealing with adaptations of Bob Dylan songs in French. The first one was about the merits and perils of being faithful. This one deals with various strategies that somehow take more liberties with the original material. Four non mutually-exclusive strategies are envisioned: twisting the message, turning ones adaptation into an answer song, disregarding the original lyrics altogether, or tactful shape-shifting. All strategies are supported by examples taken from a vast corpus of songs spanning five decades. The paper end with a discussion of the lessons that can be learned from such exercise for translation studies and for the translation profession as a whole.

Interpréter pour traduire, first published in 1984, laid the foundation of the interpretive theory of translation. A number of its findings are today being validated by cognitive scientists. The fact that it remains quite topical explains why it was republished in 2014 by Les Belles Lettres.

The fast pace of todays translation market and the definite integration of translation memory systems TMS in the translators workstation have created new demands in terms of technological skills expected from novice translators. Aiming to prepare future translators to meet market demands, many translation undergraduate programs in Brazil have included the training on translation memory systems in their curricula. Applying the action-research methodology, this paper reports on the training methodology used for TMS in translation classrooms at two Brazilian public universities. The collected data in both contexts suggest that TMS may affect both the composing of the final translation and the decision-making of trainee translators and the quality of their production if they do not reflectively challenge their choices and the suggested output.

The article aims at exploring a new side of the translation practice, when translators resort to distribution lists, which they set up themselves. The lists rely on the uestionanswers principle and are meant to solve translation difficulties. They are a sign of translators appropriation of friendly information technology possibilities and provide translation scholars with a new insight in the translation process. Distribution lists and their uses rank among the various practices of collaborative or community translation, and yet differ from them in some respects. Their description will be made in formal and functional terms. In the former part, such dimensions as participative frame and roles will be dealt with, and the cognitive contribution in the second part. Translators group up in networks or communities and the implications of both terms will be reviewed. New modes of cognition at the interface of individual and collective processes will thereby be highlighted.

Translation is one way texts are accorded transcendence, understood as material transfer from a site of utterance. Although frequently construed as a quality of texts or auctorial virtue, transcendence is enacted by receivers (including translators) pulling texts across time and space, transforming them accordingly. Study of a war-commemoration text attributed to Atatürk shows this happening in its transfer to Australia. The historical authorship of the text has been contested, and analysis of its various translations and interpretations reveals competing interests, strategic omissions, distributed intercultural agency, and inscriptions. However, the historians involved in the debate, in both Turkey and Australia, have not sufficiently considered translation analysis, which can find some justification for the questioned text. Further, an ethics of cross-cultural communication might question the translation as an appeal to resolution based not just on the commonness of human suffering but also the shared concealment of guilt.

In the previous study (Takahashi 2010), the omission of rendition was identified as one of the student problems. In the present study, ten undergraduate students interpretation and those of two professional interpreters were compared. It was found that decreasing accuracy of interpretation of the following sentence was identified as one of the student problems. Also, it was examined that there was an interpreting unit where the participants who used natural Japanese expressions in the proceeding sentence but with fillers, resulting in omitting or substituting interpretations in the following sentence. It is suggested that some of the student participants were not able to de-verbalize the English word in the source speech, and resulting eventually in the omission and substitution. Therefore, it is recommended that students should be taught a de-verbalization process (Selescovith,1989) as part of interpreting theory.