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Vol. 67:1 (2021) ► pp.36–53

Changing translation practices and moving boundaries in translation studies

| University of Turku
| Kaunas University of Technology
This article aims at describing the changes in translation by referring to practices such as localization, amateur translation, translating in the media. The changes are enhanced by the computing, information, and communication technologies. In three decades, a new work environment has shaken up the translator’s world. New types of translators are emerging, with a new hierarchy between them, in parallel with a multiplication of labels created for “translation.” The concept of translation has, therefore, become ambiguous and, relating to it, other concepts, such as text, need to be revisited.
Keywords: translation, types of translators, localization, crowdsourcing, ICTs
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Multiple roles and positions of translation
  • Traditional and new translation practices: Beyond a mechanical view of translation
  • Digitalization, translation, and translators
    • Translation and localization
    • Going digital: Different modes of working and myriad types of users
  • Translating in the media
  • A future to build
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 2 April 2021
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