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Article published In: Specialised Translation in Spain: Institutional dimensions
Edited by José Santaemilia-Ruiz and Sergio Maruenda-Bataller
[Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 30:2] 2017
► pp. 440–464

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The invisibility of the translator in environmental translation

 | Universitat Politècnica de València
 | Universitat Politècnica de València
Published online: 26 March 2018
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Abstract
The question concerning the visibility of the translator has been widely discussed in translation studies from different ideological positions, especially during the so-called post-structuralism period. Unlike other types of translation such as audiovisual or literary translation, in the case of specialized translation the translator’s name rarely appears, as demonstrated in previous research, in which, from an ambidirectional corpus in Catalan of environmental texts, in only 16% of cases was the translator’s name made explicit ( (2004). La traducció en el discurs mediambiental en llengua catalana: Anàlisi i caracterització d’un corpus ambidireccional. Doctoral thesis. Castelló de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, p. 318). In the present article, therefore, we study a current sample with similar features to that of the original corpus, with the aim of analyzing its profile and determining the behaviour, in this sense, more than a decade after our previous conclusions.
Resumen
La visibilidad del traductor ha sido una cuestión ampliamente debatida en los estudios de traducción a partir de posiciones ideológicas distintas, sobre todo durante el denominado postestructuralismo. A diferencia de otras tipologías como la traducción audiovisual o la literaria, en la especializada son pocos los casos donde aparece su nombre, como demostramos en un trabajo de investigación anterior, en el que, a partir de un corpus ambidireccional en catalán de textos medioambientales, sólo en un 16% de los casos se explicitaba el nombre del traductor ( (2004). La traducció en el discurs mediambiental en llengua catalana: Anàlisi i caracterització d’un corpus ambidireccional. Doctoral thesis. Castelló de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I.Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar, p. 318). En este trabajo, pues, estudiamos una muestra actual, con rasgos similares a la de aquel corpus, para analizar su perfil y determinar cuál es el comportamiento, en este sentido, más de una década después de nuestras conclusiones anteriores.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The translator’s invisibility
  • 3.Objectives, methodology and corpus description
  • 4.Results and discussion
  • 5.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • Sources in environmental corpora
  • References
References (114)
Sources in environmental corpora
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Ajuntament de Barcelona. Website Languages: Catalan, Spanish and English: [URL]
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Earth Policy Institute. Website Language: English: [URL]
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