The Standard of Translation Quality in the Jordanian Universities Programs and the prospective Role of Atlas Global Center for Studies and Research Suleiman AL-ABBAS 229

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Translation Quality ◽  
Global Center

scholarly journals An Andalusian View of Death in Translation: ‘Clamor’ by Federico García Lorca and its Polish Translation

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 48-62
Author(s):  
Anna Jamka
Keyword(s):  
Raw Material ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Federico Garcia Lorca ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Literary System ◽  
Cultural Linguistics

Death, an essential part of life, is a mesmerizing topic for a number of reasons. Without a shadow of a doubt, it is a universal phenomenon. Nevertheless, the variety of death rites as well as myths and beliefs related to the act of passing, suggest certain differences in its understanding among individuals, communities, and cultures. Are such differences manifested in language? And if so, can they be examined in an analysis of translations of highly artistic, poetic texts? In this study I seek to reconstruct the linguistic view of death in ‘Clamor’ by Federico García Lorca and its latest Polish translation (2019) by Jacek Lyszczyna. Having in mind that language constitutes the raw material of literature (Pajdzińska, 2013), I believe that analyzing poetry in light of the linguistic worldview is crucial for its deeper understanding and, as a consequence, delivering a good translation. What is more, I am convinced that applying the analytical tools developed by cultural linguistics, and in particular, the Ethnolinguistic School of Lublin, in translation studies may be useful not only in an assessment of translation quality, but also as very telling of the role of translated texts in the target language, culture and literary system. Therefore, I intend to analyse Lyszczyna’s translation in view of the linguistic worldview to assess its quality and determine what such an ‘infected’ view of death may tell us about our own (Polish) take on this concept. Firstly, I will analyse García Lorca´s poem to identify the key linguistic exponents of death and reconstruct its non–standard linguistic view (Gicala, 2018) in ‘Clamor’. Secondly, I will capture the key linguistic exponents of death in the form of holistic cognitive definitions following the principles established by Bartmiński et al. (1988, 1996, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2018). Furthermore, I will do the same with their Polish equivalents used in Lyszczyna’s translation. On the basis of the outcomes of the study, I will reconstruct the ‘translated’ linguistic view of death and answer the research questions.

Moving music for moving source texts

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 319-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Naranjo Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Literary Texts ◽  
Emotional Engagement ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Creative Behaviour ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Sad Music ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract Based on previous findings about the role of music as an emotional stimulus, as well as the potential benefits of music-driven emotional engagement in written production and creative behaviour, the present study investigates the impact of emotional background music on translation quality and creativity. A translation experiment in two different conditions (music vs. silence) was conducted in a controlled environment. Participants translated two literary texts of opposing emotional contents (happy vs. sad) while they listened to an emotionally-matching soundtrack. Statistical analysis of within- and between-group comparisons only revealed conclusive results for the sad condition, showing a positive effect of sad music on translation creativity and a negative effect on accuracy.

Can music inspire translators?

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Naranjo
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Beneficial Effect ◽  
Emotional Content ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Emotional Involvement ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Narrative Engagement ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Emotional Level

Abstract This article examines the role of musically-triggered narrative engagement in translation performance. An experimental study was conducted to investigate the potential of music to induce narrative engagement (NE), based on findings that suggest the influence of NE-relevant dimensions such as visualization and emotional involvement in translation. Participants translated two literary texts with opposing emotional content (happy and sad) in two different sound conditions (with and without music). Three hypotheses were formulated predicting a beneficial effect of music for narrative engagement as well as positive correlations between narrative engagement and translation quality and creativity. Results suggest an increase of visualization in the music condition and a correlation between visualization levels and accuracy scores. Retrospective questionnaires indicate a positive appraisal of the experience of translating with music at both the cognitive and emotional level, although further investigations is needed to validate the scale and confirm its reliability.

scholarly journals The Impact of Textual Analysis on Translation Competence

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siddig Ahmed Ali
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year

The present study aimed to assess the impact of textual analysis on translation competence and attempts to investigate textual analysis as an essential phase in the translation process. Moreover, it claims that any translation competence is reached through three phases: analysis, transfer, and restructuring as Nida has stated. In addition to that, this study extends over the ideas and theoretical frameworks of textual analysis made by many scholars to ease comprehending the text to be translated. The researcher used the analytical descriptive approach  in line with the field of the study. This approach describes the participants’ feedback and data to assess translation competence. Then the researcher prepared a survey  of 8 items as a tool for data collection. It conducted on 30 trainees and students of translation at Gassim University during the second term of the academic year, 2015.  Moreover, the data were collected from various resources including the internet, encyclopaedias, and translation references together with the survey. After the analysis, the study reached some findings. The results of those findings and data analysis showed that textual analysis influences the translation quality and enhance translators’ competence. A 67% of students were confident that the role of textual analysis in reaching translation competence. Based on these findings, the researcher presented some concluding remarks and recommendations. Finally, the study concluded that textual analysis enhances translator’s skills and competence.

Psychology of Translation

2015 ◽  
pp. 274-296
Author(s):  
Natalia Kashirina
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Difference

The process of translation is treated as a sequence of three principal stages (pre-translation source text analysis, translation itself, self-assessment/editing). The chapter is aimed at proving that the first and the third stages of the translation process are based on critical thinking, while the second stage (translation itself) rests upon creative thinking. Therefore, teaching critical thinking must be a necessary part of translator professional training, because it is not only important as such, but also leads students to acquisition of mature creative thinking, which is crucial for translation problem-solving. In this chapter, the problem of training translation quality assessment is analyzed, the difference between critical and creative thinking is discussed, and psychological mechanisms of their functioning in translation are treated as a cognitive process; the role of critical thinking in raising translators' awarenesses and, consequently, translation quality is stressed.

Translation quality assessment demystified

Babel ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Behrouz Karoubi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Key Terms

The current paper aims at developing a conceptual framework to describe translation quality assessment as a complex process of decision making. It starts with a discussion about the great amount of confusion that exists in the usage of terminologies related to the area of translation quality assessment and tries to disambiguate and (re)define key terms that are often taken for granted such as translation, assessment, and quality. The article then deals with developing a theoretical model to explain different stages of the process of translation quality assessment, i.e., collection, synthesis, and interpretation of data with an emphasis on the significance of the role of assessors in the process.

scholarly journals The Role of Machine Translation Quality Estimation in the Post-Editing Workflow

Informatics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Hannah Béchara ◽  
Constantin Orăsan ◽  
Carla Parra Escartín ◽  
Marcos Zampieri ◽  
William Lowe
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Machine Translation ◽  
Impact Study ◽  
Quality Estimation ◽  
Editing Efficiency ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Automatic Translation ◽  
New Challenges

As Machine Translation (MT) becomes increasingly ubiquitous, so does its use in professional translation workflows. However, its proliferation in the translation industry has brought about new challenges in the field of Post-Editing (PE). We are now faced with a need to find effective tools to assess the quality of MT systems to avoid underpayments and mistrust by professional translators. In this scenario, one promising field of study is MT Quality Estimation (MTQE), as this aims to determine the quality of an automatic translation and, indirectly, its degree of post-editing difficulty. However, its impact on the translation workflows and the translators’ cognitive load is still to be fully explored. We report on the results of an impact study engaging professional translators in PE tasks using MTQE. To assess the translators’ cognitive load we measure their productivity both in terms of time and effort (keystrokes) in three different scenarios: translating from scratch, post-editing without using MTQE, and post-editing using MTQE. Our results show that good MTQE information can improve post-editing efficiency and decrease the cognitive load on translators. This is especially true for cases with low MT quality.

scholarly journals Modelling and Optimizing on Syntactic N-Grams for Statistical Machine Translation

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 169-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rico Sennrich
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Machine Translation ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
N Gram ◽  
Evaluation Metric ◽  
Log Linear ◽  
Dependency Structures ◽  
Free Word

The role of language models in SMT is to promote fluent translation output, but traditional n-gram language models are unable to capture fluency phenomena between distant words, such as some morphological agreement phenomena, subcategorisation, and syntactic collocations with string-level gaps. Syntactic language models have the potential to fill this modelling gap. We propose a language model for dependency structures that is relational rather than configurational and thus particularly suited for languages with a (relatively) free word order. It is trainable with Neural Networks, and not only improves over standard n-gram language models, but also outperforms related syntactic language models. We empirically demonstrate its effectiveness in terms of perplexity and as a feature function in string-to-tree SMT from English to German and Russian. We also show that using a syntactic evaluation metric to tune the log-linear parameters of an SMT system further increases translation quality when coupled with a syntactic language model.

scholarly journals Oxidized RNA Bodies compartmentalize translation quality control in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James S. Dhaliwal ◽  
Cristina Panozzo ◽  
Lionel Benard ◽  
William Zerges
Keyword(s):  
Saccharomyces Cerevisiae ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Chain Complex ◽  
Processing Bodies ◽  
Rna Granules ◽  
Translation Quality ◽  
Control Factors ◽  
Cytoplasmic Rna ◽  
Nascent Chain

ABSTRACTCytoplasmic RNA granules compartmentalize phases of the translation cycle. We previously reported on the localization of oxidized RNA in human cells to cytoplasmic foci called oxidized RNA bodies (ORBs). Oxidized mRNAs are substrates of translation quality control, wherein defective mRNAs and nascent polypeptides are released from stalled ribosomes and targeted for degradation. Therefore, we asked whether ORBs compartmentalize translation quality control. Here, we identify ORBs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and characterize them using fluorescence microscopy and proteomics. ORBs are RNA granules that are distinct from processing bodies and stress granules. Several lines of evidence support a role of ORBs in the compartmentalization of central steps in the translation quality control pathways No-Go mRNA decay and ribosome quality control. Active translation is required by both translation quality control and ORBs. ORBs contain two substrates of translation quality control: oxidized RNA and a stalled mRNA-ribosome-nascent chain complex. Translation quality control factors localize to ORBs. Translation quality control mutants have altered ORB number per cell, size, or both. Therefore, ORBs are an intracellular hub of translational quality control.

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