Translation Revision and Post-editing

Industry Practices and Cognitive Processes
Herausgeber: Koponen, Maarit; S. Robert, Isabelle; Mossop, Brian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looking at the apparently dissolving boundary between correcting translations generated by human brains and those generated by machines, this book is key reading for researchers, instructors and advanced students in Translation Studies as well as for professional translators with a special interest in checking translations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 613g
• ISBN-13: 9781138549708
• ISBN-10: 1138549703
• Artikelnr.: 59992186

Autorenporträt

Maarit Koponen is a Lecturer at the University of Turku, Finland, where her research and teaching focus on translation technology, post-editing and translation processes. In 2019-2020, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the EU-funded research project MeMAD (Methods for Managing Audiovisual Data) at the University of Helsinki, researching machine translation and post-editing for television subtitling. Brian Mossop was a Canadian government French-English translator, reviser and trainer from 1974 to 2014. He teaches revision to BA and MA students at York University in Toronto and leads revision workshops for professional translators. He holds an MA in linguistics and is the author of Revising and Editing for Translators, 4th edition (Routledge 2020). Isabelle S. Robert is a Lecturer in French in the Department of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting, University of Antwerp, Belgium, where she teaches undergraduate courses in French text production and Translation Studies, and graduate courses in Dutch-French translation, revision and translation technology. Her main research interests are audiovisual translation, translation (revision) processes and sight translation. Giovanna Scocchera has been a literary translator from English to Italian since 2000, working for major Italian publishers both as translator and reviser. She has taught translation and revision for publishing purposes at several institutions. She earned a PhD on revision in the publishing sector in 2015 and has pursued her research interest in revision training and education.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Post-editing versus revision 1. Preferential changes
in revision and post-editing 2. Differentiating editing, post-editing, and
revision 3. Post-editing human translations and revising machine
translations: impact on efficiency and quality Part 2: Non-professional
revision and post-editing 4. Non-professional editing in the workplace:
examples from the Canadian context 5. When the post-editor is not a
translator: can machine translation be post-edited by academics to prepare
their publications in English? Part 3: Professional revision in various
contexts 6. Revision and quality standards: do Translation Service
Providers follow recommendations in practice? 7. From language check to
creative editing: exploring variation in the revision stage of the LSP
workflow 8. Exploring a two-way street: Revisers' and translators'
attitudes and expectations about each other in biomedical translation 9.
Another look at revision in literary translation Part 4: Training 10.
Revision and post-editing competences in translator education 11. Improving
revision quality in translator training with translationQ 12. The MT
post-editing skill set: course descriptions and educators' thoughts