Publication type: | Book part |
Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
Title: | Socio-technical issues in professional translation practice |
Authors: | Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen Massey, Gary |
et. al: | No |
DOI: | 10.1075/bct.105.06ehr |
Published in: | Translation practice in the field : current research on socio-cognitive processes |
Page(s): | 105 |
Pages to: | 122 |
Issue Date: | 2019 |
Series: | Benjamins Current Topics |
Series volume: | 105 |
Publisher / Ed. Institution: | John Benjamins |
Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Amsterdam |
ISBN: | 978-90-272-0397-7 978-90-272-6219-6 |
Language: | English |
Subjects: | Organizational ergonomics; Socio-technical system; Translation practice; Workplace research; Translation constraint; Situated cognition |
Subject (DDC): | 418.02: Translating and interpreting |
Abstract: | According to the International Ergonomics Association, a focus on organizational ergonomics recognizes that people work within socio-technical systems that encompass tools, equipment, and computer interfaces as well as other actors in their professional environment and networks. In recent research, we have started investigating such socio-technical factors from an ergonomic perspective. Observations at professional workplaces, responses to questionnaires, and indepth interviews with translators suggest that their perceived self-determination is more important to the success of socio-technical change than the technological developments themselves. A lack of involvement in decision-making at the workflow level may explain why so many translators have been resistant to taking new technology on board. We discuss how a feedback culture could mitigate many socio-technical issues by giving translators a voice in change and empowering them to contribute to organizational learning and growth. |
Further description: | Previously published in Translation Spaces 6:1 (2017) |
URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/17988 |
Fulltext version: | Published version |
License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
Organisational Unit: | Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED) |
Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Ehrensberger-Dow, M., & Massey, G. (2019). Socio-technical issues in professional translation practice. In Translation practice in the field : current research on socio-cognitive processes (pp. 105–122). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.105.06ehr
Ehrensberger-Dow, M. and Massey, G. (2019) ‘Socio-technical issues in professional translation practice’, in Translation practice in the field : current research on socio-cognitive processes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 105–122. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.105.06ehr.
M. Ehrensberger-Dow and G. Massey, “Socio-technical issues in professional translation practice,” in Translation practice in the field : current research on socio-cognitive processes, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2019, pp. 105–122. doi: 10.1075/bct.105.06ehr.
EHRENSBERGER-DOW, Maureen und Gary MASSEY, 2019. Socio-technical issues in professional translation practice. In: Translation practice in the field : current research on socio-cognitive processes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. S. 105–122. ISBN 978-90-272-0397-7
Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen, and Gary Massey. 2019. “Socio-Technical Issues in Professional Translation Practice.” In Translation Practice in the Field : Current Research on Socio-Cognitive Processes, 105–22. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.105.06ehr.
Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen, and Gary Massey. “Socio-Technical Issues in Professional Translation Practice.” Translation Practice in the Field : Current Research on Socio-Cognitive Processes, John Benjamins, 2019, pp. 105–22, https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.105.06ehr.
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