Translating at Work : Paraprofessional Translation in Organizations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koskinen, Kaisa.

Series:

Benjamins Translation Library

Benjamins Translation Library ; v.171

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Language in the workplace.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

This book brings TS, international business and organization studies scholars together to theorize, conceptualize and empirically study the practices and beliefs of actors of paraprofessional translation at varying levels of organizational hierarchies who create meaning and extend knowledge and understanding across boundaries at work.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Paraprofessional translation at work

Paraprofessional translation and/in the disciplines involved

On lingual and other translation

What counts as translation?

Paraprofessional translators as organizational actors embedded in ecosystems

Overview of the chapters

References

Part I Theoretical and methodological insights

Chapter 2 Paraprofessional translators as translatorial agents

Background

What we already know about paraprofessional translators?

Translation as an emergent practice

Translatoriality

Paraprofessional versus professional translation

Interlingual translation vs. knowledge transfer

Chapter 3 Zooming in, zooming out on paraprofessional translators

Introduction

Different theoretical perspectives on translation

A translation ecology perspective

A recent empirical example of a translation ecology

Temporal account of the language landscape in the Kazakh society

Paraprofessional translators and translations

Translation processes

What value does the reanalysis from a translation ecology perspective add?

Methodogical considerations of the KC Bank study

Conclusion

Chapter 4 Are boundary spanners in international firms paraprofessional translators?

Literature review

Observations on an extreme case of boundary spanning: Where is the translation?

Translation as part of Mr. Y's boundary spanning during the establishment of Company D's state-of-the-art production unit in Russia

Translation to solve a trust crisis between the Finnish HQ and the Russian top management team related to control over the Russian subunit

Translation as part of Mr. Y's boundary spanning efforts to convey the distinct corporate culture of Company D to employees at the Russian subunit

Discussion.

Funding

Chapter 5 Learning from news translation research to unblackbox paraprofessional translation

Conceptualizing news translation

Volunteer and paraprofessional translation

Methods for investigating paraprofessional translation in the news

Sociology of the actor

Sociology of the product

Chapter 6 Translation policy research and paraprofessional translation

From language policy to translation policy

Practices, beliefs and management of translation

Researching paraprofessional translation practices, beliefs and management in businesses

Researching practices

Researching beliefs

Researching translation management

Combining the layers

Concluding remarks

Chapter 7 Crossing borders and boundaries

1. Introduction

2. IB and the three approaches to translation

2.1 international business approaches to the mini-case

2.2 Building an integrated translation approach

2.2.1 Translating across organizational boundaries

2.2.2 Translating across knowledge domain boundaries

2.2.3 Translating across language boundaries

2.3 Identifying the synergies across the literatures

3. An integrated translation approach

3.1 The MNC as a translation ecosystem

3.2 MNCs in translation ecosystems

4. Methodological implications

4.1 From the meso level to macro and micro levels of analysis

4.2 From heavy reliance on interviews to multiple data sources

4.3 From solitary to collaborative and linguistically reflexive research

5. Discussion and conclusion

Acknowledgements

Part II Empirical studies

Chapter 8 Paraprofessional translation in a Franco-German joint-stock company

Aim of the chapter

Saarlor as a company

Theory and methodology

Translation ecosystems.

Translatorial linguistic ethnography

Micro-historical approach

The translation ecosystem of Saarlor

Translators and translation management

Realia translation and the role of revision

Drafting the minutes - complex institutionalization

Institutional ecosystem

Interdependency of interlingual and metaphorical translation

Conclusions

Chapter 9 Synergistic and strategic translation work

Paraprofessional translators and translatoriality

Multinational corporations as a research object

A case study in context

Translatorial spaces within the case company

Global-local translatorial spaces

External-to-internal translatorial spaces

Intra-functional translatorial spaces

Inter-functional translatorial spaces

Summary

Discussion and conclusion

Chapter 10 Translation and translating in a multilingual IT customer service unit

Working in an IT B2B customer service unit

Explicit translation

The translation process

Translation shifts

(Non-)translation and belonging

Balancing audiences and self-validation

Unrecognized translation

Chapter 11 Beliefs and practices in paraprofessional translators' work

Paraprofessional translation as a middle ground between professional and non-professional translation

Methodology

Approaches to paraprofessional translation, and the concomitant beliefs, and practices

Small-t translation

Paraprofessional translation as care work

Paraprofessional translation as knowledge brokering and management

Paraprofessional translation as information sourcing

Paraprofessional translation as play

The big-T paraprofessional translation

Paraprofessional translation as enactment of one's subject expertise.

Paraprofessional translation as a distinctive linguistic task

Discussion and conclusions

Appendix. Interview guide

Chapter 12 The implicit corporate translation policy

ActiveLife in translation

The ActiveLife tone of voice

The dynamic language and translation policy

Language policy

On the explicitness and implicitness of a language policy in a business setting

Translation policy

Why does discerning a translation policy matter

Ethnographic research design

Results

The accounting team in translation

Paraprofessional translatorial prowess in the communications team

RQ1 results

RQ2 results

RQ3 results

Current translation policy at ActiveLife

Chapter 13 Spaces of translatoriality within hospital knowledge departments in England

The knowledge dissemination environment in the NHS England

Translatoriality as a social practice

Setting the library as an oligopticon

Spaces of translatoriality within the library oligopticon

Magnifications on intralingual spaces

Space 1

Space 2

Magnifications on interlingual spaces

Space 3

Space 4

Discussion

Chapter 14 Paraprofessionals' approaches to subtitling work

Perceptual approach to subtitling

Data and analysis methods

Perceptual approaches to subtitling as part of academics' work

Reported experiences of subtitling (hands-on)

Attitudes and emotions towards subtitling

Respondents' evaluations of themselves as video subtitlers

Chapter 15 Paraprofessional translation in research

Translation and research

Data of this study

Questionnaire

Course material

Defining features of PPT in research.

Translatorial agents in research

Translation in research work

Multilingual communication

Multilingual research materials

Further considerations

Translation as interpretation

Translation/translator visibility in research

Translation quality and equivalence

Part III Concluding remarks

Chapter 16 Exploring next steps

Organizational capacity for internationalization and translation

Capacity of researchers for linguistic and translatorial reflexivity

Chapter 17 Afterword

On paraprofessional and professional translation

Boundaries in and of translation

Humanist approach for our times

Interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary future(s) of TS

Index

Research methodology index.

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ISBN:

9789027243614

OCLC:

1611796540