Translators’ and Interpreters’ Job Satisfaction
Edited by Minna Ruokonen, Elin Svahn and Anu Heino
Special issue of Translation Spaces 13:1 (2024) v, 169 pp.
Elin Svahn
List of John Benjamins publications in which Elin Svahn is involved.
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2026 Translators’ job satisfaction: A theoretical and methodological exploration Babel 72:1, pp. 97–123 | Article
Increasing attention is devoted to translators’ job satisfaction (JS), evaluations, and emotions concerning one’s work. Given the complex and interdisciplinary nature of JS, an explorative overview of how the concept has been approached in translation studies is sorely needed. Drawing on a… read more
2025 ‘Only’ a translator? A microhistorical account of the working life of Lily Vallquist and the emerging professionalization of literary translators in 1950s Sweden Translation in Society 4:2, pp. 174–195 | Article
This article adopts a microhistorical approach, zooming in on the Swedish literary translator Lily Vallquist’s (1897–1986) working life in the 1950s in relation to the professionalization of literary translators in Sweden during the same period. Combining a microhistorical and translation… read more
2024 What do we know about translators’ job satisfaction? An exploratory overview of research results Translators’ and Interpreters’ Job Satisfaction, Ruokonen, Minna, Elin Svahn and Anu Heino (eds.), pp. 7–31 | Article
This article is an exploratory overview of research on translators’ job satisfaction (JS). We analyze the data (51 articles) for indications of (1) translators’ overall JS; (2) associations of overall JS with individual, job-intrinsic, job-extrinsic, societal, and background factors;… read more
2024 Translators’ and interpreters’ job satisfaction – a multi-faceted object of study with far-reaching implications: Translators’ and interpreters’ job satisfaction – a multi-faceted object of study with far-reaching implications Translators’ and Interpreters’ Job Satisfaction, Ruokonen, Minna, Elin Svahn and Anu Heino (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction