Christiane Maaß

Silvia Hansen-Schirra

Silvana Deilen

Sergio Hernández Garrido

Anke Tardel

This volume presents current research and practices in the field of Easy Language and accessible communication. The publication of this volume was inspired by two international events, namely the International Easy Language Day Conference (IELD), and the panel The Social Role of Language: Translation into Easy and Plain Languages at the IATIS conference. By bringing together findings from different corpus-driven, cognitive and automation approaches in accessible communication research and providing insights into current projects of the emerging field of accessible health communication, the volume captures the dynamic and rapidly evolving nature of the field.

Emerging Fields in Easy Language and Accessible Communication Research

Katja Abels

Katharina Oster

Moritz J. Schaeffer

Sarah Signer

Marcus Wiedmann

This book celebrates Don Kiraly’s scholarly work. In 20 contributions, colleagues and friends tackle issues closely related to his research interests in translation didactics and translation studies. The result is a colourful kaleidoscope reflecting the many strands of research questions that Don Kiraly has helped to advance over the past decades.

In Honour of Don Kiraly’s Social Constructivist Approach

Re-Thinking Translator Education

Jean Nitzke

Artificial intelligence is changing and will continue to change the world we live in. These changes are also influencing the translation market. Machine translation (MT) systems automatically transfer one language to another within seconds. However, MT systems are very often still not capable of producing perfect translations. To achieve high quality translations, the MT output first has to be corrected by a professional translator. This procedure is called post-editing (PE). PE has become an established task on the professional translation market. The aim of this text book is to provide basic knowledge about the most relevant topics in professional PE. The text book comprises ten chapters on both theoretical and practical aspects including topics like MT approaches and development, guidelines, integration into CAT tools, risks in PE, data security, practical decisions in the PE process, competences for PE, and new job profiles.

A short guide to post-editing

Oliver Czulo

Contrastive Linguistics (CL), Translation Studies (TS) and Machine Translation (MT) have common grounds: They all work at the crossroad where two or more languages meet. Despite their inherent relatedness, methodological exchange between the three disciplines is rare. This special issue touches upon areas where the three fields converge. It results directly from a workshop at the 2011 German Association for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (GSCL) conference in Hamburg where researchers from the three fields presented and discussed their interdisciplinary work. While the studies contained in this volume draw from a wide variety of objectives and methods, and various areas of overlaps between CL, TS and MT are addressed, the volume is by no means exhaustive with regard to this topic. Further cross-fertilisation is not only desirable, but almost mandatory in order to tackle future tasks and endeavours.}

TC3 II

Crossroads between Contrastive Linguistics, Translation Studies and Machine Translation

Michael Schreiber

Barbara Ahrens

Monika Krein-Kühle

Ursula Wienen 

Das Translationswissenschaftliche Kolloquium ist eine Vortragsreihe des Fachbereichs Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Mainz in Germersheim und des Instituts für Translation und Mehrsprachige Kommunikation der Technischen Hochschule Köln. Dieser Band vereint ausgewählte Beiträge zum Themenkreis Translation – Didaktik – Kompetenz, die in diesem Rahmen vorgestellt worden sind. Im Zentrum stehen dabei: • theoretisch-methodische Überlegungen und Praxisbeispiele zu einer lernerbasierten Translationsdidaktik, • die Bedeutung der Translationsrichtung, • die Standardisierung der Translationsqualität, • situated learning und Ericssons deliberate practice im Dolmetschunterricht sowie • Online-Unterricht in der Ausbildung von Dolmetschern.

Translation – Didaktik – Kompetenz

This volume presents new approaches in Easy Language research from three different perspectives: text perspective, user perspective and translation perspective. It explores the field of comprehensibility-enhanced varieties at different levels (Easy Language, Plain Language, Easy Language Plus). While all are possible solutions to foster communicative inclusion of people with disabilities, they have varying impacts with regard to their comprehensibility and acceptability. The papers in this volume provide insights into the current scientific activities and results of two research teams at the Universities of Hildesheim and Mainz and present innovative theoretical and empirical perspectives on Easy Language research. The approaches comprise studies on the cognitive processing of Easy Language, on Easy Language in multimodal and multicodal texts and different situational settings as well as translatological considerations on Easy Language translation and interpreting.

Easy Language Research: Text and User Perspectives

Ursula Wienen

Das Translationswissenschaftliche Kolloquium ist eine Vortragsreihe des Fachbereichs Translations-, Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft der Universität Mainz in Germersheim und des Instituts für Translation und Mehrsprachige Kommunikation der Technischen Hochschule Köln. Dieser Band vereint ausgewählte Beiträge zum Themenkreis Translation – Linguistik – Semiotik, die in diesem Rahmen vorgestellt worden sind. Es geht dabei um Ausdrucksformen unmittelbarer Nachzeitigkeit in verschiedenen Sprachen, Realienbezeichnungen und ihre Übersetzung, Eigenschaften multimodaler Texte sowie um Filmsemiotik.

Translation – Linguistik – Semiotik

Erich Steiner

Stella Neumann

The book specifies a corpus architecture, including annotation and querying techniques, and its implementation. The corpus architecture is developed for empirical studies of translations, and beyond those for the study of texts which are inter-lingually comparable, particularly texts of similar registers. The compiled corpus, CroCo, is a resource for research and is, with some copyright restrictions, accessible to other research projects. Most of the research was undertaken as part of a DFG-Project into linguistic properties of translations. Fundamentally, this research project was a corpus-based investigation into the language pair English-German. The long-term goal is a contribution to the study of translation as a contact variety, and beyond this to language comparison and language contact more generally with the language pair English - German as our object languages. This goal implies a thorough interest in possible specific properties of translations, and beyond this in an empirical translation theory. The methodology developed is not restricted to the traditional exclusively system-based comparison of earlier days, where real-text excerpts or constructed examples are used as mere illustrations of assumptions and claims, but instead implements an empirical research strategy involving structured data (the sub-corpora and their relationships to each other, annotated and aligned on various theoretically motivated levels of representation), the formation of hypotheses and their operationalizations, statistics on the data, critical examinations of their significance, and interpretation against the background of system-based comparisons and other independent sources of explanation for the phenomena observed. Further applications of the resource developed in computational linguistics are outlined and evaluated.

Silvia Hansen-Schirra

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