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The Role(s) of Native Speakers in L2 Translation

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Mraček D.

Studie z aplikované lingvistiky - Studies in Applied Linguistics

2019

vol. 10

issue 1

7-12

Translating into a non-mother tongue (L2 translation) has received increasing attention from translation scholars over the past two decades in response to the growing proportion of this direction in translation markets in most parts of the world. One of the aspects of L2 translation that remains a relatively uncharted territory is the role of native speakers. Although they are normally involved in relatively few translations from a language of limited diffusion into a major language directly as translators, native speakers need not be entirely absent from L2 translation as it has been suggested that they can assume diverse roles in the process and that cooperation with native speakers brings obvious benefits to L2 translators. The present study aims at providing a more complex picture of the native speaker’s role(s) in L2 translation, drawing on the results of a recent project on the qualitative and sociological aspects of L2 translation. By focusing on the questionnaires that the 40 subjects, professionals and advanced translator trainees, submitted before participating in a translation experiment, the study intends to shed more light on the views, preferences and habits of Czech translators regarding their cooperation with native speakers, discussing the possibilities as well as limitations of native-speaker participation in L2 translation.

Traducteur natif ou non natif ? La directionnalité de la traduction et sa perception

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Duběda T.

Linguistica Pragensia

2020

vol. 30

issue 2

204-217

This article tackles the question of L2 translation (or non-native translation), examining its role in the translation industry and its specificities. An empirical study was carried out with the aim of objectively evaluating the perception of L2 translation with respect to its nativeness and acceptability. Twenty subjects having French as their mother tongue gave their opinion on a set of utterances translated by native and non-native translators. The results show that a certain number of native utterances were identified as non-native, while approximately one half of the non-native utterances were identified as native. The acceptability turns out to be strongly correlated with perceived nativeness. The perceived non-nativeness seems to be determined primarily by stylistic and grammatical errors. No effect of the respondents’ age or domain of education was identified. The proficiency in Czech seems to increase the tolerance towards L2 translation.

Le présent article aborde la question de la traduction non native et tâche d’étudier son rôle dans le secteur de la traduction professionnelle et les traits qui la caractérisent. Une étude empirique a été menée dans le but d’objectiviser la perception de la traduction non native sur les axes natif/non natif et acceptable/inacceptable. Vingt personnes de langue maternelle française se sont exprimées sur un ensemble d’énoncés traduits par des traducteurs natifs et non natifs. Les résultats montrent, d’une part, qu’un certain nombre d’énoncés natifs ont été identifiés comme non natifs, et d’autre part, qu’environ la moitié des énoncés non natifs ont été identifiés comme natifs. L’acceptabilité s’avère fortement corrélée au caractère natif perçu. La perception du caractère non natif semble déterminée en premier lieu par les fautes de style et de grammaire. Aucun effet lié à l’âge des participants ou à leur domaine de formation n’a pu être identifié. La maîtrise du tchèque semble augmenter la tolérance envers la traduction non native.

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Traducteur natif ou non natif ? La directionnalité de la traduction et sa perception