scholarly journals Investigating Real Work Situations in Translation Agencies. Work Content and Its Components

2010 ◽  
pp. 25-43
Author(s):  
Anna Kuznik ◽  
Joan Miquel Verd
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Sociology Of Work ◽  
Everyday Activity ◽  
Work Content ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Real Work ◽  
Permanent Staff ◽  
Translation Service

The aim of this article1 is to analyze work content and its components in translation agencies. In the conceptual part of the article, we refer to concepts taken from the sociology of work and translation studies. In the analytical part, we use data produced by Stelmach in her study carried out in a small translation agency in Poland using the technique of self-observation (Stelmach 2000). The aim of Stelmach’s study was to record and analyze all the activities that formpart of the production process of a translation service. Because the observation was continual in time, it provided a complete list of all the activities carried out by the permanent staff occupying two internal jobs. Stelmach’s approach was quantitative and not focused on specifi c, translation-related work organization. In this article, we reinterpret these activities as the content of the work in translation-related internal positions, and compare it with Gouadec’s model oftranslation service provision process (Gouadec 2002, 2005a, 2005b, 2007). The data analyzed show the importance of outsourcing in the everyday activity of translation agencies and (partly as a consequence of this outsourcing) the magnitude and importance of the management activities carried out by the staff.

scholarly journals Investigating Real Work Situations in Translation Agencies. Work Content and Its Components

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (44) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Kuznik ◽  
Joan Miquel Verd
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Sociology Of Work ◽  
Everyday Activity ◽  
Work Content ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Permanent Staff ◽  
Translation Service

The aim of this article is to analyze work content and its components in translation agencies. In the conceptual part of the article, we refer to concepts taken from the sociology of work and translation studies. In the analytical part, we use data produced by Stelmach in her study carried out in a small translation agency in Poland using the technique of self-observation (Stelmach 2000). The aim of Stelmach’s study was to record and analyze all the activities that form part of the production process of a translation service. Because the observation was continual in time, it provided a complete list of all the activities carried out by the permanent staff occupying two internal jobs. Stelmach’s approach was quantitative and not focused on specific, translation-related work organization. In this article, we reinterpret these activities as the content of the work in translation-related internal positions, and compare it with Gouadec’s model of translation service provision process (Gouadec 2002, 2005a, 2005b, 2007). The data analyzed show the importance of outsourcing in the everyday activity of translation agencies and (partly as a consequence of this outsourcing) the magnitude and importance of the management activities carried out by the staff.

scholarly journals Applying Service-Dominant Logic to Translation Service Provision

2020 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 191-207
Author(s):  
Minna Kujamäki
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Theoretical Point ◽  
Service Dominant Logic ◽  
Dominant Logic ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
Translation Service

Translation is commonly regarded as a service both in translation industry and within Translation Studies (TS), but the question of what makes translation a service has not been widely explored. This conceptual paper looks at non-literary translation as a service, applying a paradigm of Service-Dominant S-D logic (S-D logic) to the field. Practices in translation service provision are analysed using the Facilities-Transformation-Usage framework (FTU framework), designed on the premises of S-D logic, as a tool. The paper shows that translation practices in general comply with this theoretical perspective, making translation, by definition, a service, and opens a window into the aspects that make it a service. Some current practices in the field do not, however, meet the criteria of an ideal service. These practices are discussed briefly in order to pinpoint, from the service theoretical point of view, where the problems lie. 

scholarly journals Titian’sChrist with the Coin: Recovering the Spiritual Currency of Numismatics in Renaissance Ferrara

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 449-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Nygren
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Activity ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Exegetical Tradition

AbstractTitian paintedChrist with the Coinfor Alfonso d’Este around 1516. The painting served as the cover piece for a collection of ancient coins and has been read as a commentary on politics and taxation. Instead, this article reveals how the painting reconfigured Alfonso’s interaction with ancient coins, transforming the everyday activity of the collector into an occasion of spiritual reformation. Reading numismatic antiquarianism against the exegetical tradition that accrued around the Gospel pericope (Matthew 22:21) reveals the painting as the nexus of two regimes of virtue — one Christian, one classical — both of which turn upon coins as manifold objects.

scholarly journals New motherhood: a moment of change in everyday shopping practices?

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Burningham ◽  
Susan Venn ◽  
Ian Christie ◽  
Tim Jackson ◽  
Birgitta Gatersleben
Keyword(s):  
Grocery Shopping ◽  
Environmental Implications ◽  
Everyday Activity ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Transition To Motherhood ◽  
Sustainable Lifestyles ◽  
Sociological Inquiry ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Becoming A Mother ◽  
Household Members

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw on data from 16 interviews (two each with eight women) to explore some of the ways in which everyday shopping may change as women become mothers. The meanings, practices and implications of the transition to motherhood have long been a topic for sociological inquiry. Recently, interest has turned to the opportunities offered by this transition for the adoption of more sustainable lifestyles. Becoming a mother is likely to lead to changes in a variety of aspects of everyday life such as travel, leisure, cooking and purchase of consumer goods, all of which have environmental implications. The environmental impacts associated with such changes are complex, and positive moves toward more sustainable activities in one sphere may be offset by less environmentally positive changes elsewhere. Design/methodology/approach – This paper draws on data from 16 interviews (two each with eight women) to explore some of the ways in which everyday shopping may change as women become mothers. Findings – This paper focuses on the ways in which modes and meanings of everyday shopping may shift through the transition to mother, and on indicating any potential sustainability implications. The paper explores the adoption of more structured shopping and of shifting the mode of grocery shopping online or offline. The paper draws attention to the way in which practices are embedded and interrelated and argue that more consideration needs to be given to the influence of all household members. Originality/value – The question here is not whether women purchase different products or consume more once they have a child, but rather how does the everyday activity of shopping for groceries and the meanings it has change with new motherhood and what sustainability implications might this have? In this context, this paper provides a novel addition to research on new mothers and consumption.

scholarly journals “Strokes to the portrait”: the senior member of the Moscow City Duma N. P. Vishnyakov (1844–1927) on his contemporaries and himself (based on the materials of the personal archive)

2021 ◽  
pp. 76-83
Author(s):  
Natalia Sergeevna Bylova
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The Body ◽  
Archival Studies ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Everyday Activity ◽  
Senior Member ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Moscow City ◽  
Source Studies ◽  
History Of

This article examines the informative capabilities of the body of materials from the personal archive of N. P. Vishnyakov for reconstructing the history of the senior member of the Moscow City Duma. Leaning on the historiography dedicated to the work with personal archive collections, as well as determining lacunas in the scientific literature, assessment is given to composition of the fund with emphasis on one of the varieties of sources stored therein – “Reminiscences of the Duma”, internal and external criticism of these materials. The example of N. P. Vishnyakov's “Reminiscences of the Duma” demonstrated the experience of development of the methods of archival studies, source studies, historiographical and specific-historical approaches towards examination of personal and family archives. Work with the body of materials from personal archive collections allows introducing the new historical sources into the scientific discourse. Based on the substantive analysis of the texts that comprise the source base of the article, the author attempts to reconstruct the everyday activity of the Moscow Duma, which draws interest of the historians in the context of sociopolitical history, as well as micro-historical analysis. The sources of N. P. Vishnyakov's personal archive bear the imprint of ego-documents, which allow reconstructing the actions “behind the scene” through the prism of personal relations and contracts of the founder, as well as direct participants of the historical process, including the figure of N. P. Vishnyakov.

Mitarbeiterorientierte Mensch-Roboter-Kollaboration*/Employee-oriented human-robot collaboration - A participatory design of human-robot collaboration leading to accepted and productive working conditions

2016 ◽  
Vol 106 (03) ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
W. Prof. Bauer ◽  
M. Bender ◽  
P. Rally
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Work Organization ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Work Content ◽  
Workload Reduction ◽  
Human Robot Collaboration

Die Gestaltung kollaborativer Mensch-Roboter-Arbeitsplätze wird entscheidend beeinflusst von den Kriterien Sicherheit, Wirtschaftlichkeit sowie Belastungsreduzierung für den Menschen. Um zu akzeptierten und damit produktiven Arbeitsplätzen zu kommen, bedarf es zusätzlich eines mitarbeiterorientierten und partizipativen Einführungsprozesses, in dem auch die wichtigen Elemente Arbeitsinhalt sowie Arbeitsorganisation gestaltet werden.   The design of collaborative human-robot workplaces is strongly influenced by aspects of security, cost-effectiveness and workload reduction for humans. It takes an additional employee-oriented and participatory implementation process to achieve accepted and productive working conditions. In this process, it is mandatory to design the ccrucial elements of work content and work organization.

Trust in a Masculine Space and a Community within a Community: Pre-1950 Auction Mart Culture in Lower Wharfedale, Yorkshire

Rural History ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANE E. ROWLING
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Pivotal Role ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Masculine Identity ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Everyday Activity ◽  
Farming Community ◽  
The Everyday

Abstract:In an area characterised by livestock farming, the auction mart had a pivotal role, both economically and culturally, and was crucial to the continued success of the community and the businesses of the area. Although made up from the surrounding farming community, the community of the auction mart was separate and different, if only on a temporary basis, with its own physical and social boundaries, cultural norms, and traditions, which had a significant effect on the personal identities of those who counted themselves as members. This article explores the auction mart community, its links to a wider farming network, and its influence on rural ideas about masculine identity, through an oral history study of the Lower Wharfedale area. This offers a window onto a community and a culture which has received very little academic attention due to its closed nature. The article concludes that the auction mart regulars constituted a community within the farming community, in which the theme of trust ran through every interaction, linking the everyday activity of the mart space to wider debates about the meaning of masculinity, transitions and ritual, social networks, and the nature of community.

scholarly journals Discovery learning in the language-for-translation classroom: corpora as learning aids

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Bernardini
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Discovery Learning ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Information Mining ◽  
Learning Aids ◽  
Translation Service

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-7968.2016v36nesp1p14This contribution reviews the idea of discovery learning with corpora, proposed in the 1990s, evaluating its potential and its implications with reference to the education of translators today. The rationale behind this approach to data-driven learning, combining project-based and form-focused instruction within a socio-constructivistically inspired environment, is discussed. Examples are also provided of authentic, open-ended learning experiences, thanks to which students of translation share responsibility over the development of corpora and their consultation, and teachers can abandon the challenging role of omniscient knowledge providers and wear the more honest hat of "learning experts". Adding to the more straightforward uses of corpora in courses that aim to develop thematic, technological and information mining competences – i.e., in which training is offered in the use of corpora as professional aids –, attention is focused on foreign language teaching for translators and on corpora as learning aids, highlighting their potential for the development of the three other European Master's in Translation (EMT) competences (translation service provision, language and intercultural ones).

Games

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gina Bloom
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Everyday Activity ◽  
Board Games ◽  
Early Modern Theatre ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Arden Of Faversham

This chapter examines the historical intersections between theatre and games in order to understand the formal dimensions of spectatorship within the specific institution of the early modern theatre and the dramas staged within it. It considers how early modern card and board games would have trained theatre audiences in the performative conventions of a newly commercialized stage, and how theatricality itself becomes a kind of game whose rules are explored, modified, and constantly reinvented through their performance by actors and the audiences who watched them. It shows that staged parlour games in the playsA Woman Killed with KindnessandArden of Favershamcall upon audiences to participate in theatre in ways that are reminiscent of traditional and rival entertainment forms. It also argues that game scenes in drama do not simply theatricalize the everyday activity of playing games in a tavern or parlour. Rather, they take advantage of the fact that the experiences of gameplay and of theatre-going were commensurate on a number of levels.

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