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Resumen: The purpose of this proposed paper will be to show how the introduction of translation memories into the workflow-process of the translator can significantly change the working environment. This environment change will include the áreas of collaborative work, organization of the work, and finally the cognitive process of translating. Our results are based upon empirical studies made by twenty-six translators in France, Switzerland and Germany. One group, in the public sector, includes international organizations, government, and the European Union, while a second sector included private entines like insurance companies and banks. Our empirical studies were computer-generated examples, while the individual case studies result from traditional paper-based evaluations generated from sector participant response. We will compare the proposed intellectual strategies with the cognitive processes that intervene with, or impact upon, the process -with and without the use of translation memories. The work and study data were completed between early 1998 and mid-2000. This analysis pro vides for the design of a new sense of translation methodologies, which can significantly impact effective communications across our global society

Resumen: Translation shifts are among the disciplines that have always been in focus. Many scholars have discussed in this regard and have proposed some models. Three main types of shifts have been paid attention to including syntactic, semantic and stylistic shifts. First models like the ones introduced by Catford and Vinay and Darbelnet mostly had tendency toward syntactic shifts. On the contrary, the later frameworks have studied semantic and stylistic shifts. Undoubtedly, Van Leuven-Zwart's framework that studies syntactic, semantic and stylistic shifts all together has been one of the most detailed ones. It has been presented to establish and describe shifts in translations of narrative texts. However, some scholars including Toury have not paid attention to this model in shift studies because of its complexities.pThis paper aims at briefly introducing Van Leuven-Zwart's framework and speaking about its strengths and drawbacks, respectively, in order that researchers and students get more familiar with this influential model. It also gives some suggestions for further researches.

Resumen: Tolerance for ambiguity (TA) is a cognitive factor that influences the perception of uncertainty and that, when not sufficiently present, may adversely affect problem solving and decision making, both key processes in translation. This being so, it has even been stated that TA is a personality trait which must be taken into account as far as translator training and recruitment are concerned (Tirkkonen-Condit 2000). After reviewing the main research conducted so far on TA from the disciplines of psychology and translation, the results of an exploratory field study based on descriptive methodology and self-report measures are shown. The Multiple Stimulus Types Ambiguity Tolerance Scale (Arquero and McLain 2010) or MSTAT-II is the main psychometric instrument applied to all participants (n=107). On the one hand, a positive correlation was found between tolerance of ambiguity and individuals' own assessment of their self-efficacy when searching the Internet for documentation. On the other hand, those subjects who thought that they did not meet the requirements for becoming professional translators in the future obtained low scores in TA, and a significant difference in TA was found between them and those who believed to meet such requirements. The results of this preliminary work suggest that TA is relevant to the study of the cognitive processes of translators and that psychometric instruments of proven reliability and validity can be useful for process-oriented translation research.

Resumen: La subcompetencia instrumental ejerce un rol determinante en el proceso de toma de decisiones traslativas a nivel léxico y es transversal a todo el proceso traductor. Por ello, el desarrollo de esta competencia resulta decisivo en las etapas de formación. El presente trabajo muestra los resultados de una investigación en donde se observó la secuencia de acciones relacionadas con la documentación de 11 alumnos del último año de la carrera de Traductor Público de Inglés, lo que permitió determinar número y variedad de fuentes de búsquedas en línea, así como el grado de implicación cognitiva.

Resumen: In Chinese-English translation the equivalents for noun or verb modifiers are more than often subject to redeployment in the target language. According to the principle that a modifier is supposed to be syntactically located in the immediacy of the modified toward which it is semantically oriented, the displacement of a modifier from where it should be syntactically located is incurred because of pragmatic motivations. However, in the context of Chinese-English translation, the modified can exert more drawing force on the modifier. As a result, the originally displaced modifier, now in a position identical to that of its English equivalent, returns to the modified, the noun or the verb, toward which it is semantically oriented. Or the modifier will resume the syntactic position as close to its modified noun or verb as possible. A conclusive analysis claims that the drawing gravity from the modified in C-E translation results from the translator's heightened semantic concerns, although some pragmatic effects can be produced as expected or unexpected.

Resumen: The aim of the pilot study is to draw attention to the importance of online translation tools as a contemporary didactic tool in the language and translation educational process. In the paper the following hypotheses were tested: (i) use of free online translation tools can contribute to the development of ICT competences; (ii) use of modern translation tools contribute to the consistency and quality; (iii) free online translation tools for under-resourced languages can be used as pedagogical tools.

Resumen: In previous discussions relating both research and translation/interpreting to each other (e.g. Andrew Chesterman & Wagner 2002; Klaudy 2006; Pöchhacker 1992), the main focus was either on the extent to which research findings improve translation/interpreting processes and competences or on different paradigms within translation research (Gile 2008). This article heuristically investigates any links between translation/interpreting competences, on the one hand, and competences required for research, on the other hand.pTo establish a research competence taxonomy that is related to translation studies, four different sources of information have been relied on: two public authorities, one scholarly organization and one translation and interpreting training institution. This conceptual study points out that many competences required for research within translation studies are closely related to translation and interpreting competences (Vandepitte 2007), so that an integrated view of research competences and translation competences is called for. Such a view will reduce the translation and interpreting institutions' task of teaching research competences to a set of ten major academic competences.

Resumen: Este artículo pretende exponer lo que entiende el autor por investigación en traducción audiovisual y cuáles son y han sido sus intereses personales en este ámbito, a modo introductorio en relación a los trabajos posteriormente expuestos que forman parte del mismo volumen.

Resumen: Esta comunicación, inserta en el campo disciplinario de los Estudios de Traducción en su rama descriptiva orientada al proceso traductor, tiene como principal objetivo la difusión de un estudio empírico-experimental realizado bajo el abordaje cognitivo. Dicho estudio, realizado en conjunto entre el Laboratorio Experimental de Traducción (LETRA) de la Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) y el Departamento de Línguas Estrangeiras e Traducción (LET) de la Universidade de Brasília (UnB), buscó modelar el proceso traductor, capturado en tiempo real, durante una tarea de (re)traducción. Aparte de eso, buscó registrar instancias de esfuerzo cognitivo en dicha tarea.

Resumen: This empirical-experimental study focuses on the processing of metaphorical expressions in sight translation (STR), a particular branch of interpreting. In order to test whether linguistic metaphors pose cognitive challenges for sight translators, we designed a within-subject experiment with 30 undergraduate taking an intermediate-level interpreting course at a Chinese university. Three streams of data, namely processing times, translation quality assessments, questionnaires and retrospective interviews, were collected and analysed for triangulation purposes.pThe results showed that metaphorical expressions took more time to process, and their presence resulted in more translation failures. In other words, the inclusion of linguistic metaphors slowed down the speed of production and compromised the quality of translation, meaning that the STR of metaphors requires more effort than for their literal counterparts. The results also suggested that the extra effort was mainly invested in the reading phase, rather than in the production phase. The data revealed that mistranslations resulting from incomplete understanding, and the ensuing imbalance in the allocation of processing capacity between the reading and production tasks, far outnumbered those resulting from the failure to find appropriate target-language terms. By adopting STR as the vehicle for examining metaphorical expressions, this study also shed some light on how metaphors are processed in a bilingual environment.

Resumen: Este trabajo de investigación, llevado a cabo desde 2004, pretende realizar un acercamiento al mundo de la traducción filológica de textos históricos desde una triple perspectiva: a. Algunas consideraciones preliminares: la definición de la traducción (tipos, factores, etapas y ámbitos de aplicación). b. Análisis de modelos de traducción filológica aplicables a la traducción de la correspondencia privada entre Felipe V y Luis XIV. c. Definición de una metodología de la investigación traductológica aplicada al proyecto COFELU.

Resumen: Through our academic research we developed a control mechanism for translation based on seven variables derived from the studies of the Belgian translatologist Dirk Delabastita. In this paper we implement the control mechanism for translation in the fields of solid waste management and liquid waste mechanics using the academic text-books Handbook of Solid Waste Management and Wastewater Engineering, Treatment and Reuse in order to investigate the quality of translations in Greek. We present an indicative psychometric questionnaire from the initial research conducted with telecommunications scientists, as well as an abstract outlining the processing of the relevant indices, followed by indicative processing in the academic field of environmental engineering. This could be the first step in research for the field of environmental engineering terminology.

Resumen: Omission in a translation is often referred to as if it were invariably a weakness, regarded as the last resort for incompetent translators; and this paper begins by illustrating some contexts where omissions do indeed constitute serious flaws in a translation. However, it goes on to argue that there are a number of circumstances when omission may be judged a valid and useful solution to a translation problem. For instance, omission may be a justi1iable way of dealing with certain elements which are found to be untranslatable, such as metalinguistic references, contextspecific or culture-specific content. It may also be judged an adequate strategy for dealing with content which is perceived as unacceptable to the target audience, and whose presence in the target text will therefore have negative effects on the way it is received by this audience. Thirdly, it may be resorted to when an inclusive translation will yield effects very different from those sought after in the original, for instance producing an effect of exoticism instead of familiarity, or one of obscurity instead ofbanality. Finally, translators may be justi1ied in omitting what would be perceived as unnecessary or redundant by the target audience. The paper brings examples from a variety of text types to illustrate these possibilities. However, it is emphasised that omission should always be the result of a process of reasoning and reflection rather than an escapist solution.

Resumen: In 2007, the Commission of Academic Degrees of the State Council of China approved an education program-Master of Translation and Interpreting (henceforth MTI), and in 2014 there are already 206 higher learning institutions started running such a program, aiming at training postgraduate students to be professional translators with advanced translation competence. Part of this translation competence is the ability to use electronic tools and resources, which has not received adequate scholarly attention in the field of translation studies in China. The objective of this research is to construct an ideal learning environment for MTI students from the social constructivist perspective by exploring the possibility and benefit of bringing the students out of the traditional classroom teaching into the authentic environment wherein professional translators use electronic tools on a daily basis. This article addresses the following research questions: (1) What constitutes an ideal environment wherein its various components interact to facilitate the student's learning? (2) In what way does such an environment assist the MTI students to learn to use electronic tools? (3) How can the gap between the student translator and the professional translator be bridged in terms of the skills to use electronic tools in a 2-year training program? In response to these questions, this article explores the interaction among the various components of the external environment of translator workstation. It proposes an ideal learning environment metaphorically referred to as "the ecosystem of translator workstation", which aims to enable MTI students to learn to use electronic tools in an environment similar to their future workplace. Such a research has great implications for translator education in present-day China by revealing what is best taught or trained in the workplace rather than the traditional classroom setting.

Resumen: "En Europa un grupo de investigadores nos hemos reunido bajo el nombre de Expertise (http://www.hf.uio.no/kri/expertise/) y trabajamos todos con programas computacionales como el mencionado Translog en combinación con TAPs durante o inmediatamente después del proceso. El grupo ha llevado a cabo un experimento piloto en que el mismo texto original en inglés ha sido traducido a diferentes lenguas europeas por diferentes traductores mediante el programa Translog o Scriptlog".

Resumen: La producción de un texto es una acción que se dirige a un objetivo: que el texto "funcione" lo mejor posible en las condiciones previstas. La traducción/interpretación, como producción de un texto, también ha de funcionar de forma óptima para la finalidad prevista. La presente teoría de la traslación se centra en la capacidad de funcionamiento del texto traducido, y no en la "fidelidad" de la transferencia lingüística.

Resumen: This exploratory research examines translation students' use of punctuation, by applying Newmark's (1988) classical idea of punctuation as a discourse unit for meaning demarcation. Data were collected from a group of 25 Chinese students studying specialised translations at a British university. The research focuses on the use of two punctuation marks in English: comma and point. The aim is to investigate how students of translation analyse the meaning of a source text with punctuation marks and how they subsequently convert this meaning into the target language again using punctuation marks. It turns out that students generally do not automatically copy the punctuation marks of the source text into the translation. They will customize or modify the original characters according to their meaning analysis of the text and their knowledge of punctuation in source and target languages. Finally, we will discuss the consequences of the research for translation education.

Resumen: "Un examen somero de los trabajos científicos del ramo, de los documentos oficiales y del tratamiento académico que obtiene esta área de conocimiento (la traducción) pone de manifiesto una cierta impresición y desorientación en su concepción o, en todo caso una polivalencia del término." El presente texto parte de la idea de dos actitudes opuestas respecto de la teorización de la actividad de transferencia lingüística, si no contradictorias, sí contarias y que el autor denomina como teórica y empírica. "Corresponden de una manera aproximada al lingüísta no practicante y al traductor de experiencia. Utilizando una expresión de la sociología, la posición teorizante sería la actitud oficial; la empírica, la real. ¿Cuál de ellas tiene razón?"

Resumen: Este artículo propone estudiar las adaptaciones cinematográficas de obras literarias desde el punto de vista de la triple vertiente traductora que comportan o que pueden comportar, y que se desglosa en: A) la adaptación cinematográfica propiamente dicha; es decir, la conversión de una obra literaria (normalmente novela, pero también más raramente, relato corto u obra teatral) en película. Incluímos tanto las adaptaciónes para cine como las destinadas a la televisión, que a pesar de las muchas similitudes que presentan, también difieren en algunos puntos; B) la traducción audiovisual; es decir, la traducción a otra lengua de las partes lingüísticas de una película, sea mediante doblaje, subtitulación u otros medios; C) la traducción literaria; es decir, la traducción entendida en el sentido tradicional de una obra literaria de una lengua a otra.

Resumen: "El presente proyecto de investigación tiene por objeto analizar qué beneficios reporta el conocimiento y la aplicación de procedimientos técnicos específicos de traducción para un óptimo ejercicio de la profesión que de esta forma puede adquirir un alto grado de celeridad y eficacia con fundamentos sólidos".