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Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 5Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 199–205
Edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer
[Handbook of Translation Studies 5] 2021
► pp. 199–205
Risk in translation
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.A brief history
- 3.The concept within translation studies
- 4.Practical studies
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References -
Further essential reading
References
Bernstein, Peter L.
1998 Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Canfora, Carmen, and Angelika Ottmann
Gile, Daniel
(1995) 2009 Basic Concepts and Models for Interpreter and Translator Training. Revised edition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 
Knight, Frank H.
(1921) 2014 Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Reprint, Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino. Citations refer to the Martino edition.
Künzli, Alexander
2004 “Risk Taking: Trainee Translators vs. Professional Translators. A Case Study.” Journal of Specialised Translation 2: 34–49. [URL]
Lammers, Mark
2011 “Risk Management in Localization.” In Translation and Localization Project Management: The Art of the Possible, ed. by Keiran J. Dunne, and Elena S. Dunne, 211–232. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Magee, John H., and David L. Bickelhaupt
1964 General Insurance. 7th ed. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin.
Matsushita, Kayo
2019 When News Travels East: Translation Practices by Japanese Newspapers. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
Nitzke, Jean, Silvia Hansen-Schirra, and Carmen Canfora
2019 “Risk Management and Post-Editing Competence.” Journal of Specialised Translation 31: 239–59.
Nurminen, Mary
2019 “Decision-making, Risk, and Gist Machine Translation in the Work of Patent Professionals.” In Proceedings of the
8th Workshop on Patent and Scientific Literature Translation. Machine Translation Summit
2019, 32–42. [URL]
Pym, Anthony
2005 "Text and Risk in Translation." In New Tendencies in Translation Studies, ed. by Karin Aijmer and Cecilia Alvstad, 69–82. Gothenburg: Göteborg University.
2015 “Translating as Risk Management.” Journal of Pragmatics 85: 67–80. .
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2020 “Translation, Risk Management and Cognition.” In Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition, ed. by Fabio Alves, and Arnt Lykke Jakobsen, 445–458. London: Routledge.
Pym, Anthony, and Kayo Matsushita
2018 “Risk Mitigation in Translator Decisions.” Across Languages and Cultures 19 (1): 1–18. .
.Wilss, Wolfram
2005 “Übersetzen als Sonderform des Risikomanagements [Translation as a special form of risk management].” Meta 50 (2): 656–664.
Further essential reading
Angelone, Erik
2010 “Uncertainty, Uncertainty Management, and Metacognitive Problem Solving in the Translation Task.” In Translation and Cognition, ed. by Gregory M. Shreve, and Erik Angelone, 17–40. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Matsushita, Kayo
2014 “Risk Management as a Theoretical Framework for Analyzing News Translation Strategies.” Invitation to Translation Studies 12: 83–96. [URL].
Pym, Anthony
2008 “On Omission in Simultaneous Interpreting: Risk Analysis of a Hidden Effort.” In Efforts and Models in Interpreting and Translation Research: A Tribute to Daniel Gile, ed. by Gyde Hansen, Andrew Chesterman, and Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast, 83–105. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2008 “On Toury’s Laws of How Translators Translate.” In Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies: Investigations in Homage to Gideon Toury, ed. by Anthony Pym, Miriam Shlesinger, and Daniel Simeoni, 311–28. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2016 “Risk Analysis as a Heuristic Tool in the Historiography of Interpreters: For an Understanding of Worst Practices.” In New Insights in the History of Interpreting, ed. by Kayoko Takeda, and Jesús Baigorri-Jalón, 247–68. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.