Akiko Sakamoto
List of John Benjamins publications for which Akiko Sakamoto plays a role.
Articles
2024 Measuring translators’ quality of working life and their career motivation: Conceptual and methodological aspects Translators’ and Interpreters’ Job Satisfaction, Ruokonen, Minna, Elin Svahn and Anu Heino (eds.), pp. 54–77 | Article
This article discusses the conceptual and methodological aspects of the Translator WRQoL (Work-related Quality of Life) survey and provides some preliminary results and observations based on the first pilot study. The survey is being developed to measure translators’ work satisfaction and… read more
2020 Social groups in machine translation post-editing: A SCOT analysis Fair MT: Towards ethical, sustainable Machine Translation, Moorkens, Joss, Dorothy Kenny and Félix do Carmo (eds.), pp. 78–97 | Article
We analysed focus group interview data collected from 22 project managers (PMs) working in Japan, covering their experiences of machine translation post-editing (MTPE). A Social Construction of Technology analysis of how PMs describe different social groups in translation enabled us to examine… read more
2017 “No news is good news?”: The role of feedback in the virtual-team-style translation production network Translation Spaces 6:2, pp. 333–352 | Article
Professional translation is now predominantly carried out in virtual-team-style production networks where communication between language service providers (LSPs) and freelance translators’ practice is increasingly restricted to computerised methods. Although some literature deals with… read more