Abstract
Based on the Latour’s actor network theory, this paper expounds the successful application of the theory in medical translation by paying attention to non-human actors, problematic cooperation mechanism and real signs of translation completion, so as to try to put forward theoretical principles that can guide medical translation.
Highlights
At present, under the background of global network, with the increasingly close exchanges and cooperation between China and the West, Chinese and Western medicine has been developing continuously
This paper aims to illustrate the guiding role of Latour’s actor network theory in the context of machine-assisted medical translation
As shown in the figure above, it is clear that the completion of translation is not the real end, and needs to lock the interests of customers and mobilize other actors, such as the editors, typesetters and translation, to work together to complete the translation task. It can naturally be arrived at the conclusion from the above analysis, that due to the unique language characteristics of medical texts and the lack of medical translators, the translation habits of medical texts are blooming and uneven which reflected in the selection of translation materials, translation concept, translation strategy, translation method
Summary
In the 1980s, French sociologists Bruno Latour and Michel Callon proposed the renowned actor-network theory (ANT for short) which was developed by John Law. Translation is a continuously changing process, and that is the reason why Callon (1986b) has divided it into four stages: 1) problematization, in which the focal actor establishes itself as an obligatory passage point between the larger network and the actors that it seeks to represent; 2) interessement, in which actors’ interests are aroused and in which the terms of their involvement in the actor-network are negotiated. This paper using Bruno Latour (Bruno Latour) actor network theory, by attaching great importance to the cooperation mechanism of non-human actors, problems, and translation to complete the real sign of three aspects, explains the Latour actor network theory in the successful application of medical translation, which can guide the medical translation theory principles are put forward
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