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Translaboration: Exploring Collaboration in Translation and Translation in CollaborationEdited by Alexa Alfer and Cornelia Zwischenberger
[Target 32:2] 2020
► pp. 307–326
Complex collaborations
Interpreting and translating for the UK police
Joanna Drugan | University of East Anglia
Interpreting and translation are increasingly provided in the public sector via large-scale outsourced framework
contracts (Moorkens 2017). In the UK, one of the largest recent framework agreements
for interpreting and translation was introduced between 2016 and 2017 in critical contexts for justice, including the Home Office,
the Ministry of Justice and the police. These agreements involve new types of collaboration between new partners and agents in the
delivery of interpreting and translation, who each have different aims, expectations, standards and working methods. This
contribution examines these emerging complex collaborations, and is the result of a rare type of complex collaboration between
academic researchers, framework contract-holders and managers, interpreters and translators, language service providers,
professional associations, and users of translation and interpreting services, within the Transnational Organised Crime and
Translation (TOCAT) project.The article reports on original research conducted during the TOCAT project, and outlines and evaluates some
novel, complex and ethically challenging ‘translaborations’ in police settings. The collaborations discussed are complex because
of the range of parties and actors involved and because of the challenging content and settings in which the police rely on
interpreting and translation. ‘Translaboration’ is used here to encompass multiple evolving collaborations between different
providers and users of interpreting and translation, policy makers, trainers and researchers. Important questions of translation
quality and ethics in the management of large-scale framework contexts for public service delivery are raised.
Keywords: outsourced language services, public sector interpreting and translation (PSIT), policing, transnational organised crime, translation and interpreting ethics
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Are these complex collaborations ‘translaboration’?
- 3.Methodology
- 4.Analysis
- 4.1Formal collaboration: The linguist as crime fighter
- 4.2Informal collaboration: The linguist as informant
- 5.Discussion
- 6.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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References
Published online: 08 June 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.20086.dru
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.20086.dru
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