Cover not available

Introduction In: Translation Spaces: Online-First Articles

Introduction

Is machine translation translation?

Exploring conceptualizations of translation in a digitally saturated world

ORCiD logo with link | Tampere University
ORCiD logo with link | University of Surrey
ORCiD logo with link | Dublin City University
This content is being prepared for publication; it may be subject to changes.
Article outline
  • The discussion starts
  • A provocative question
  • Related work
  • This special issue
  • Looking forward
  • Notes
  • Author queries
  • References
References (32)
References
. 2024. “The explanatory power of descriptive translation studies in the machine translation era.” Perspectives 32(2): 261–277. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2026. Machine Translation and Translation Theory. Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Blumczynski, Piotr, and Neil Sadler. 2023. “Ontological positions.” In The Routledge Handbook of Translation Theory and Concepts, edited by Reine Meylaerts and Kobus Marais, 28–50. Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Chesterman, Andrew, and Emma Wagner. 2014. Can Theory Help Translators?: A Dialogue between the Ivory Tower and the Wordface. Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
do Carmo, Félix. 2018. “Does Machine Translation Really Produce Translations?” Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation. 323. [URL]
. 2020. “Time is money and the value of translation.” Translation Spaces 9(1): 35–57. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. 2025. “The value of translation in advanced capitalism.” In The Routledge Handbook of Translation Technology and Society, edited by Stefan Baumgarten and Michael Tieber, 36–52. Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
. In progress. “Artificial Translation: a whole new currency altogether.”
Jurafsky, Daniel and James H. Martin. 2009. Speech and Language Processing: An introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition. 2nd edition. Pearson/Prentice Hall.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kenny, Dorothy. Forthcoming. “Technology and Translator Training.” In The Routledge Handbook of Translation, Technology and AI, edited by Miguel Jiménez-Crespo and Vanessa Enríquez Raído. Routledge.
Kiran, Asle H. 2015. “Four Dimensions of Technological Mediation.” In Postphenomenological Investigations: Essays on Human-Technology Relations, edited by Robert Rosenberger and Peter-Paul Verbeek, 123–40. Lexington Books. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Kull, Kalevi. 2023. “Biosemiotic approaches.” In The Routledge Handbook of Translation Theory and Concepts, edited by Reine Meylaerts and Kobus Marais, 77–93. Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Marais, Kobus. 2019. A (Bio)Semiotic Theory of Translation. The Emergence of Social-Cultural Reality. Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Meylaerts, Reine and Kobus Marais. (eds) 2023. The Routledge Handbook of Translation Theory and Concepts. Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Moorkens, Joss. 2017. Under pressure: translation in times of austerity. Perspectives 25(3): 464–477. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Nurminen, Mary. 2021. Investigating the Influence of Context in the Use and Reception of Raw Machine Translation. PhD thesis, Tampere University.
Panizza, Silvia. 2019. “Wittgenstein.” In The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Philosophy, edited by Piers Rawling and Philip Watson, 63–75. Routledge.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Penet, J. C. 2026. “Introduction.” In Teaching translation in the age of generative AI: New paradigm, new learning?, edited by J. C. Penet, Joss Moorkens, and Masaru Yamada, iii–ix. Language Science Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Pérez-Ortiz, Juan Antonio, Mikel L. Forcada and Felipe Sánchez-Martínez. 2022. “How neural machine translation works.” In Machine translation for everyone: Empowering users in the age of artificial intelligence, edited by Dorothy Kenny, 141–164. Language Science Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Pinch, Trevor J. and Wiebe E. Bijker. 1984. “The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other.” Social Studies of Science 14 (3): 399–441. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Prunč, Erich. 2004. “Zum Objektbereich der Translationswissenschaft.” In Und sie bewegt sich doch… Translationswissenschaft in Ost und West. Festschrift für Heidemarie Salevsky zum 60. Geburtstag, edited by Ina Müller, 263–285. Lang.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Risku, Hanna and Regina Rogl. 2020. “Translation and situated, embodied, distributed, embedded and extended cognition.” In The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Cognition, edited by Arnt Lykke Jakobsen and Fabio Alves, 478–499. Routledge. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Rozmysłowicz, Tomasz. 2014. “Machine Translation: A Problem for Translation Theory.” New Voices in Translation Studies 11: 145–63.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Susskind, Richard. 2025. How to Think about AI. A Guide for the Perplexed. Oxford University Press. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Tiittula, Liisa and Leena Kolehmainen. 2020. “Käännöstieteen tutkimuskohteita, metodeja ja aineistoja.” [Translation studies research topics, methods and data]. In Kielentutkimuksen menetelmät [Methods in Language Research], edited by Milla Luodonpää-Manni, Markus Hamunen, Reetta Konstenius, Matti Miestamo, Urpo Nikanne and Kaius Sinnemäki, 951–983. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Toury, Gideon. 1985. “A Rationale for Descriptive Translation Studies.” In The Manipulation of Literature. Studies in Literary Translation, edited by Theo T. Hermans, 16–41. Croom Helm.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Tymoczko, Maria. 2007. Enlarging Translation, Empowering Translators. St Jerome.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Vilar, David, Markus Freitag, Colin Cherry, Jiaming Luo, Viresh Ratnakar, and George Foster. 2023. “Prompting PaLM for Translation: Assessing Strategies and Performance.” [URL]
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. 1953. Philosophical Investigations. Translated by G. E. M. Anscombe. 1st edition. Wiley-Blackwell.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar
Mobile Menu Logo with link to supplementary files background Layer 1 jbe-platform.quadraat-sans-bold jbe-platform.quadraat-sans-bold-dark jbe-platform.quadraat-sans-bold-light jbe-platform.quadraat-sans-bold prag Twitter_Logo_Blue