Ethics Of Translation Research Articles

Translation Ethics in Saudi Universities' Translation Curriculum

Translation Ethics in Saudi Universities' Translation Curriculum

Ethics of Translation and Journalism: Truth, Accuracy and Cultural Sensitivity in Media Communication

There is a growing inclination towards the hybrid fields of translation studies and journalism practices as a space where journalism and translation coexist, or as a hybrid arena of textual production through translation. Because of the significant influence of media, journalistic translation has been viewed as a subfield research of translation studies. This is reflected in the use of terms such as transediting (i.e. translation and editing), news translation, journalistic translation and journalistic translation research, and journalator (i.e. journalist-translator). This perception can be understood in the broader context of how translation studies, several decades after its formal establishment in the second half of the 20th century, opened up to interdisciplinary research studies, and of the attempts to extend this scope to include contemporary media and communication studies by integrating the unique aspects of translating and utilizing proper methodologies. The application of this interdisciplinary framework requires ethical commitments covering journalism and translation professional frameworks.

Exploring ethical issues in the Chinese translation of medical terms: The convergence of translation ethics and medical ethics

This article explores the ethical aspects of translating medical terminology into English, with a particular emphasis on the joint influence of medical ethics and translation ethics. This study identified four key issues in current translation practice through the analysis of various cases from the perspective of Chestermans five kinds of translation ethics, including representation ethics, service ethics, communication ethics, norm-based ethics, and commitment ethics. The four issues involve discrimination, superstition, contempt, and overgeneralization. These issues may hinder the provision of appropriate medical services and social acceptance by fueling social stigma, public misunderstandings, and negative perceptions of diseases. This study suggests that medical translation is not only about language conversion, but also involves considerations of cultural, ethical, and social factors. This article attempts to provide practical advice for medical translators and healthcare workers by combining medical ethics with translation ethics. It suggests that future research should prioritize interdisciplinary collaboration to improve ethical standards in medical translation and promote more accurate and respectful descriptions of diseases in different cultures.

The Ethical Choice of Business English Interpreters under Chesterman’s Model of Translation Ethics

The Ethical Choice of Business English Interpreters under Chesterman’s Model of Translation Ethics

Risk perception and risk management in legal translation: a questionnaire survey

ABSTRACT While risk as a concept has aroused interest in Translation Studies in recent years, empirical research on the topic is still lacking. Mostly regarded as an adverse factor, risk has close conceptual links to translation quality and translation ethics. Legal translation is a field in which risk awareness and risk management are of the utmost importance given the values at stake. Curiously, the number of lawsuits or formal complaints against translators is very low. A questionnaire survey was conducted among Czech legal translators to provide insights into their perception of risk and risk management methods. The results show that legal translation is mostly regarded as riskier than other areas of translation and that risk perception partly depends on previous exposure to the field. Translating into a foreign language, though potentially risky, is almost unanimously considered inevitable. Literal equivalents are perceived as safer than loose equivalents, but loose equivalents tend to be preferred with increasing practice. Complaints from clients are extremely rare and never have serious consequences. Current developments in the industry, such as the increasing use of internet resources and machine translation, are likely to have an impact on risk perception and risk management in the future.

Book review: Rebecca Tipton, The Routledge Guide to Teaching Ethics in Translation and Interpreting Education

Book review: Rebecca Tipton, <i>The Routledge Guide to Teaching Ethics in Translation and Interpreting Education</i>

Research on the Re-translation Effect of Lin Yutang’s A Nun of Taishan from a Perspective of Translation Ethics

Research on the Re-translation Effect of Lin Yutang’s A Nun of Taishan from a Perspective of Translation Ethics

Navigating Ethics in AI-Driven Translation for a Human-Centric Future

General Background: The rapid growth of AI technology is reshaping various industries, including translation, bringing both opportunities and ethical challenges. Specific Background: AI's integration into translation processes promises automation and efficiency but raises concerns about the role of human translators, translation quality, and cultural nuances. Additionally, issues like machine bias and privacy preservation are emerging as critical ethical considerations. Knowledge Gap: While much attention has been given to AI's technical advancements, there is a lack of comprehensive research addressing the ethical implications of AI in translation and its impact on professional roles and requirements. Aims: This study aims to critically review the literature on AI's impact on the translation profession and explore the ethical challenges arising from AI integration. It seeks to provide recommendations for ethical translation practices in an AI-enhanced environment. Results: Through in-depth interviews with professional translators, educators, and industry experts, the study identified key themes such as transparency in AI systems, the responsibility of human translators, bias in AI systems, and the impact on human translators. Novelty: This research offers a unique perspective by combining insights from diverse stakeholders and emphasizing ethical considerations in AI-assisted translation. It proposes an action-oriented approach to addressing ethical concerns to ensure the survival of the translation profession in an AI-driven society. Implications: The findings serve as valuable guidance for translators, educators, and policymakers, highlighting the need for ethical frameworks and guidelines specific to AI integration in translation. This study underscores the importance of balancing AI advancements with ethical standards to achieve high-quality, culturally sensitive translations. Highlight: Ethical Considerations: Address bias and privacy in AI-assisted translation. Human Expertise: Maintain human involvement for quality and cultural nuance. Future Research: Enhance ethical practices with diverse, comprehensive studies. Keyword: AI integration, translation ethics, machine bias, human translators, cultural sensitivity

Translational Bioethical Decision‐Making: Human Brain Organoids as a Case Study

ABSTRACTIn an earlier essay, I advocated that translational bioethics uses the public's values, determined through social science, in its analysis of translational science technologies. It may be unclear what those values might be, and whether such a translational ethics would necessarily conclude that cutting edge technologies should not be developed. In this essay, I show the public's values relevant to human brain organoids and argue that a translational bioethics analysis using these values would support continued organoid research.

The post-Babel condition: Paul Ricoeur’s translator’s task

ABSTRACT Paul Ricoeur’s ethics of translation has recently inspired a number of authors in Translation Studies. In this article, I argue that the entire scope and potential impact of Ricoeur’s thought on translation theory and practice can only be fully grasped when considering his critical dialogue with previous traditions of thought. This dialogue manifests itself in two rereadings that Ricoeur performs throughout On Translation: Firstly, of the myth of Babel and secondly, of Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘The translator’s task.’ In the first part of this article, I retrace how Ricoeur rejects the traditional idea of Babel as a catastrophic event and instead argues for an understanding of multiplicity as a gift, the ‘human condition’ as it ought to be. In the second part, I explore how Ricoeur, based on this rereading of the Babel narrative, engages with Walter Benjamin’s essay. I argue that it is essentially through a reinterpretation of Antoine Berman’s reading of Benjamin that Ricoeur rearticulates the translator’s task in ethical terms. While this particular constellation between Benjamin and Berman has received little attention, my claim is that it is actually essential for Ricoeur’s idea of translation as ‘linguistic hospitality’ and its potential relevance for Translation Studies.

Analysis of Address Terms Translation Strategies: The Norms in the Translation of Address Terms in Moment in Peking

This paper, framed within Chestermans translation ethics, focuses on the translation of address terms in the first volume of Moment in Peking. It analyzes the practical application of professional norms and expected norms in the translation of novels, exploring the strategies of address terms translation. Through comparative analysis of different Chinese translations of address terms in the first volume of Moment in Peking (translated by Zhang Zhenyu, Yu Fei, and machine), this paper aims to reveal the ethical and professional norms that translators should consider in the selection of address terms and explore the performance of machine translation in terms of norms. The study finds that the ethical principles of human translators result in higher quality and reliability of translations, while machine translation, although formally faithful, still has deficiencies in context perception, emotional discernment, and target reader cognition.

374 Operationalization of a Translational Ethics Program

OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Within our CTSA hub, greater emphasis is on understanding innovation and human health impact of translational science writ large rather than focus on translational research projects. Our program is restructured to reflect distinguishing ethical features of translational science which are complimentary to traditional research ethics issues. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: This descriptive analysis depicts the development of our ethics program as an exemplar of how to integrate into the research enterprise of an academic health science center that engages in translational research. Our relational approach is predicated on the embodiment of ethical values by all who are involved in research committed to proactive dialog, team building, and collaboration. This translational research culture is facilitated by a multidisciplinary ethics team who are embedded throughout the translational research enterprise. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Our program is integrated into a translational science enterprise within a CTSA hub in four areas: relational structure (from leadership team to community engagement), education (from trainees to the research community to the public), support (through ethics consultation with multiple touchpoints in the translational science pathway), and team science (from team on-boarding and communication to D&amp;I research of team science interventions). We have developed a research agenda examining research ethics topics that increase quality, applicability and downstream social impact of research; understanding translational science through historical and science &amp; technologies studies lenses, and ethnographic and mixed-method approaches to understanding team science and the science of team science. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE: The integration of a translational ethics program provides attention to traditional research ethics issues regarding study conduct and integrity but also transcends those concerns to focus on the translational science enterprise itself through relationships, cultivating trust, team science, DEIA, and social responsibility.

Tre nyanser av adekvans. Om grader av källbundenhet i spänningsfältet mellan det vernakulära och det kosmopolitiska i tre svenska översättningar

It is well known that the Swedish literary culture is open and that the most common overall translation strategy for high prestige fiction is adequate, in the Toury sense (2012 p. 70). But are there different degrees of adequacy? And do translators favor vernacular or cosmopolitan stances in their overall adequate translations? Are there any signs of commercial vernacular­ ism on the cover of the studied Caribbean novels translated from English, French and English/ Spanish? By employing the transformations reduction, substitution and retention, the results of the study show that retention is by far the most used transformation by the Swedish publishers and translators, concerning both the paratexts and translated texts. Commercial vernacularism is detectable on the covers. However, the strength of retention varies within the overall adequate translations; from an adequate translation conforming to Swedish expectancy norms for trans­ lated high prestige fiction, which is employed by the translator of the novel Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid, over a foreignizing translation strategy reminding the reader of the presence of the culturally Other, used by the translator of Maryse Condé’s novel Traversée de la mangrove, to the abusive fidelity translation challenging the tolerant Swedish reader’s expectancy norms and translation ethics reading the translation of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. The study shows that there are three nuances of adequacy in the studied material.

The ethics of medical translation

Much has been written about the ethics of medical interpreting, but not so much about purely written translation. What moral principles apply (or should apply) when I translate a document for a client? Do I need to invent these principles myself, or is there help available? In this article I explore the personal moral principles we might apply to our work, and the institutional backup that is available, for instance the Institute of Translation and Interpreting’s Code of Conduct. I explore what a code of ethics for medical translators might look like.

Translational bioethics: Reflections on what it can be and how it should work.

Translational ethics (TE) has been developed into a specific approach,which revolves around the argument that strategies for bridging the theory-practice gap in bioethics must themselves be justified on ethical terms. This version of TE incorporates normative, empirical and foundational ethics research and continues to develop through application and in the face of new ethical challenges. Here, I explore the idea that the academic field of bioethics has not yet sufficiently analysed its own philosophical foundation for how it can, and should, be practically relevant; neither has it comprehensively discussed the limitations on what impacts bioethicists should pursue. As a result, there has not been adequate training on how to suitably and appropriately impact real-world practices. Moreover, bioethical perspectives are often competing with other strong interests, for example, economic and political, which may weaken their impact on policy-making. The TE approach I propose can not only facilitate practical impacts of academic bioethics by being better informed by real-world ethical issuesbut it also supports targeted and ethical justifications of the actual impact of academic work in real-world contexts. In this paper, I clarify the premises for this TE approach, identify further challenges and sketch out potential solutions for the implementation of this methodological framework.

Medical ethics education as translational bioethics.

We suggest that in the particular context of medical education, ethics can be considered in a similar way to other kinds of knowledge that are categorised and shaped by academics in the context of wider society. Moreover, the study of medical ethics education is translational in a manner loosely analogous to the study of medical education as adjunct to translational medicine. Some have suggested there is merit in the idea that much as translational research attempts to connect the laboratory scientist's work to its implications for patient care, translational ethics focuses on bringing ethics scholarship into the sphere of personal and public action. We distinguish the term 'translational ethics' (the study of ethics being translated between academy, classroom and clinic) from other prominent definitions in the bioethics literature. To do this, we build off a notion of knowledge translation that focuses on the nonlinear movement of information that comes to professionals through multiple competing sources. We suggest that this knowledge, and particularly knowledge about ethics, becomes embodied by the individual. It is through a reflective practice that internally embedded ethics knowledge might be modified, and this work might be best carried out with a moral community that maintains a sense of practical wisdom. Applying this translational approach to the study of medical ethics education can be both academically relevant and practically useful. This view of translation can help bridge the evident, multidirectional relationships between research, education and performance. It might also create further opportunities to develop medical ethics education theory.

Intralingual translation, cultural accessibility and the ethics of translation: The Volxbibel as a case study

This article deals with the ethics of intralingual translation and cultural accessibility. Based on the analysis of five characteristic text examples of the Volxbibel, a German intralingual translation of the Bible which makes excessive use of local adaptive strategies and whose central aim is to make the Scriptures accessible to youngsters, it will be shown that cultural accessibility can only be achieved if the ethical dimension of semiotic translational transfer is taken duly into account. Methodologically, the analysis will be based on a contrastive pragmatic analysis of the Volxbibel and its canonical counterpart, the Lutherbibel. The results of the analysis reveal that ethically grounded intralingual translation can only be achieved when transfer actions are oriented, not only towards the translational skopos and the target-text, but, at the same time, respect the source-text author’s intention(s) and the source-text’s ideological and socio-cultural background. Finally, on the grounds of these results, a slight adjustment of Zethsen’s and Hill-Madsen’s criterial definition of translation is proposed, by explicitly integrating therein the ethical dimension. This would contribute to a more precise delineation of both intralingual and interlingual translation.

Ethics in Translation and Interpreting Training: Cultivating Integrity from Classroom to Professional Practice

Ethics in Translation and Interpreting Training: Cultivating Integrity from Classroom to Professional Practice

A Corpus-Based Study on Classical Poetry’s Translation of The Governance of China III from Perspective of Translation Ethics

The Governance of China III is a representative book to shape the national image and enhance national self-confidence. Its English translation is a window for foreign readers to understand China. In the process of translation, translation strategies and methods reflect translators’ choice of different ethical models. This paper takes the English translation of classical poetry in The Governance of China III as the main research object, takes Chesterman’s five ethics models as the theoretical basis, builds a corpus to explore the application of five ethical models in the process of translating classical poetry, and hopes to provide some views on the political publicity translation of classical poetry.

医学同传译员的承诺伦理——切斯特曼传统翻译伦理模式之粘合剂

医学同传译员的承诺伦理——切斯特曼传统翻译伦理模式之粘合剂