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Counting what counts

Research on community interpreting in Germanspeaking countries—A scientometric study

 | University of Graz, Austria
 | University of Graz, Austria
Published online: 3 November 2008
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This paper presents the results of a study on research on spoken and signed language community interpreting (CI) in German-speaking countries (Austria, Germany, German-speaking regions of Switzerland). A set of different scientometric, network analytical and text linguistic (keyword analysis, title word analysis, co-occurrence analysis) methodological tools is used to investigate this specific field of research. The paper is a follow-up to a first brief introductory paper on that topic (Grbić, Nadja and Sonja Pöllabauer. 2006a. “Forschung zum Community Interpreting im deutschsprachigen Raum: Entwicklung, Themen und Trends”. Nadja Grbić and Sonja Pöl¬labauer, eds. “Ich habe mich ganz peinlich gefühlt”. Forschung im Kommunaldolmetschen in Österreich: Problemstellungen, Perspektiven und Potenziale. Graz: Institut für Theoretische und Angewandte Translationswissenschaft, University of Graz, 2006. 11–36. [= GTS—Graz Translation Studies, 10.]Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) and presents an in-depth analysis of the subject. The corpus of the study includes 595 publications on research into spoken and signed CI in German-speaking countries, which were published between 1979 and 2006. It was compiled on the basis of a comprehensive search of the literature. The study focuses, among other aspects, on the types of documents published in that field of research (with a specific focus on journal articles, collective volumes, papers in collective volumes, graduation and doctoral theses) and the nature of the publications, the overall growth rates of publications on that field, the most common languages of publication, the disciplinary affiliation of the authors, the agents (people, institutions) involved in researching CI as well as the networks of authors and co-authorships, and the topics touched upon in research on CI and the most common co-occurrences of topics.
Résumé
Cet article présente les résultats d’une étude portant sur les recherches en interprétation communautaire (IC) en langue parlée et en langue des signes dans des pays germanophones (l’Autriche, l’Allemagne, les régions germanophones de la Suisse). Afin de rendre compte de ce domaine de recherche spécifique, nous utilisions un ensemble d’outils méthodologiques, relevant de la scientométrie, de l’analyse de réseau et de la linguistique du texte et concernant l’analyse de mots-clefs, d’entrées et de co-occurrences. L’article fait suite à un premier article, introductif (Grbić, Nadja and Sonja Pöllabauer. 2006a. “Forschung zum Community Interpreting im deutschsprachigen Raum: Entwicklung, Themen und Trends”. Nadja Grbić and Sonja Pöl¬labauer, eds. “Ich habe mich ganz peinlich gefühlt”. Forschung im Kommunaldolmetschen in Österreich: Problemstellungen, Perspektiven und Potenziale. Graz: Institut für Theoretische und Angewandte Translationswissenschaft, University of Graz, 2006. 11–36. [= GTS—Graz Translation Studies, 10.]Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar) : il présente maintenant une analyse approfondie du sujet. Le corpus à l’étude comprend 595 publications (1979–2006) sur les recherches en IC en langue parlée et en langue des signes dans des pays germanophones. Le corpus a été établi à partir d’une recherche exhaustive dans le domaine. L’article focalise notamment les paramètres suivants : les types de documents publiés sur le sujet (avec une attention particulière pour les articles de journal, les volumes collectifs, les contributions à des volumes collectifs, les thèses de master et de doctorat), la nature de ces publications, l’évolution générale des publications dans ce domaine, les langues de publication les plus fréquentes, l’affiliation disciplinaire des auteurs, les agents (personnes, institutions) impliqués dans les recherches en IC ainsi que les réseaux d’auteurs, la co-paternité d’ouvrages, les sujets abordés dans les recherches en IC et les co-occurrences les plus fréquentes de sujets.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Methods
    • 2.1Scientometrics
    • 2.2Network analysis
    • 2.3Word and co-word analysis
  • 3.Corpus
    • 3.1Corpus compilation and literature search
    • 3.2Types of document and nature of publications
  • 4.Results of the study
    • 4.1Overall production
    • 4.2Language of publication
    • 4.3Types of texts
      • 4.3.1Papers in journals
      • 4.3.2Journal impact factor vs. length of articles
      • 4.3.3Collective volumes and papers in collective volumes
      • 4.3.4Graduation theses and doctoral dissertations
    • 4.4Disciplines
    • 4.5Persons and networks
      • 4.5.1Counting methods
      • 4.5.2Authors
      • 4.5.3Networks: Co-authorships and cooperations
    • 4.6Keyword analysis
    • 4.7Title (word) analysis
    • 4.8Co-word analysis
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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