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5 - How to Do Translating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2025

Kirsten Malmkjær
Kirsten Malmkjær
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University of Leicester
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Summary

The chapter begins by exploring ways of working with machine-generated or machine-stored texts. Texts produced with the aid of machine translation (MT) or with the aid of translation memories (TM) can enhance productivity, but almost without exception require significant editing. In the case of MT this usually takes place at the end of the process, in the case of TM typically during the process itself. The distinction between editing and revision is reinforced through an exercise illustrating and inviting practice of the two activities using newspaper articles. Next, the chapter explores translators’ potential uses of the internet for individual or group collaborative translation, and their varying attitudes to this type of collaboration. Finally, it introduces and illustrates an approach to translation analysis known as translational stylistics

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working with machine generated textscollaborative translationtranslating and the internetequivalencestylestylisticstranslational stylistics
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Introducing Translation , pp. 110 - 131
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Further Reading

Boase-Beier, J. (2006). Stylistic Approaches to Translation. Manchester: St. Jerome.Google Scholar
Boase-Beier, J. (2020). Translation and Style. London: Routledge.Google Scholar
Daems, J., Vandepitte, S., Hartsuiker, R. J. and Macken, L. (2017). Translation methods and experience: A comparative analysis of human translation and post-editing with students and professional translators. Meta: Journal des traducteurs/Meta: Translators’ Journal 62(2), 245–270.Google Scholar
Gough, J., Temizöz, Ö., Hieke, G. and Zilio, L. (2023). Concurrent translation on collaborative platforms. Translation Spaces 12(1), 45–73.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Malmkjær, K. (2003). What happened to God and the angels: An exercise in translational stylistics. Target 15(1), 39–62.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Malmkjær, K. (2004). Translational Stylistics. Language and Literature 13(1): 13–24CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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