Giving “speechless” communities a voice: or machine translation versus professional communicator in public service translation

• Authors: Vlachopoulos Stefanos
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

People from war-torn countries and countries suffering economic hardships are on the move in search of a better life or of a refuge. The host countries are challenged: To ensure equal access to public services, civil and political participation of migrants and refugees means to tear down the language barrier. Only translating and interpreting can offer a realistic, time-sensitive solution to this challenge and give “speechless” communities a voice. It is the objective of the article to investigate the expectations we can have from technology in public service translation compared to the performance of professional communicators; The issue of what a machine can(not) do and to fathom, when a professional translator has to intervene, needs a bottom-up approach and will be discussed against the backdrop of public service translation as domain-specific intercultural communication.

Keywords

EN

public service translation; machine translation; expert communicator; specialised translation

• Publisher: Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT – Wrocławskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe
• Journal: Studia Translatorica
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 65-80

Contributors

author

Vlachopoulos Stefanos

• University of Ioannina/ Greece

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Identifiers

DOI

10.23817/strans.10-4