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Article published In: Traduire, écrire, réécrire dans un monde en mutation / Writing and Translating as changing Practices: Volume II
Edited by Fayza El Qasem and Freddie Plassard
[FORUM 16:1] 2018
► pp. 39–55

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Aspects institutionnels

Academics as mediators between languages and cultures in higher-education settings

 | Anadolu University, Turkey
 | Anadolu University, Turkey
 | Anadolu University, Turkey
 | Anadolu University, Turkey
Published online: 27 September 2018
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Abstract
Intercultural and multilingual communication has become a necessity for all institutions in the age of globalization and transculturation. Higher-education institutions are no exceptions to this, mainly due to increasing contact with universities and other institutions at the international level, student and teaching staff mobility, and exchange of knowledge and experience. Intercultural communication in universities includes not only national cultures of respective parties, but also educational and even legal cultures. Higher-education institutions are required to manage multilingual and intercultural communication effectively, undoubtedly with the help of translation. Today, in most higher-education institutions in Turkey, academics employed in foreign-language departments are responsible for translation work, i.e. intercultural communication. This paper mainly focuses on the role of academics as translators in the management of intercultural communication in higher-education settings. The paper first draws attention to the increasing need for intercultural and multilingual communication in higher education. It then explores the translator’s role, power, responsibility and limitations in achieving intercultural communication in higher-education institutions.
Résumé
La communication interculturelle et multilingue est devenue une nécessité pour toutes les institutions à l’ère de la mondialisation et du transculturel. Les établissements d’enseignement supérieur ne font pas exception, si on prend en considération la multiplication des contacts avec les autres universités et institutions au niveau international, la mobilité des étudiants et des enseignants et l’échange de connaissances et d’expériences. La communication interculturelle des universités englobe non seulement les cultures nationales des parties prenantes, mais aussi les cultures éducatives et même juridiques. Les établissements d’enseignement supérieur sont tenus de gérer efficacement la communication multilingue et interculturelle, et cela ne peut se réaliser sans l’aide de la traduction. Aujourd’hui, dans la plupart des établissements d’enseignement supérieur en Turquie, ce sont les universitaires des départements de langues étrangères qui sont responsables de la traduction institutionnelle, autrement dit de la communication interculturelle de leur établissement. Cet article se concentre principalement sur le rôle des universitaires – comme traducteurs – dans la gestion de la communication interculturelle de ces établissements. L’article commence par attirer l’attention sur le besoin croissant de communication interculturelle et multilingue à ce niveau d’enseignement. Il explore ensuite le rôle, le pouvoir, la responsabilité du traducteur et les limites auxquelles il se heurte dans la communication interculturelle de ces établissements.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Translation in higher-education institutions
    • 2.1Institutional setting
    • 2.2Academics as translators and mediators: Role, power, and limitations
    • 2.3Decision-making and quality assurance in translation
  • 3.The project: “Creating a trilingual (Turkish-English-German) term base to ensure standardization in the institutional translations of Anadolu University”
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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