Because We’re Worth It

IF 1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Translation Spaces Pub Date : 2022-07-19 DOI:10.1075/ts.21030.lam
Joseph Lambert, Callum Walker
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Rate-setting is a problematic area for newcomers to translation and established practitioners alike. Survey data generally support the view that translators feel underpaid and that money matters remain a chief ethical and pragmatic concern, but appropriate guidance is almost entirely absent from introductory textbooks on the translation profession and documentation prepared by industry associations remains unsatisfactory. Focusing on the translation industry in the United Kingdom, this conceptual paper explores constraints that limit price formation practices, and argues that translators feel under threat from disruptive technologies, Uberisation, and non-professional translation, now more than ever. We explore the complex interaction between status, internal and external perceptions, and regulation, and illustrate their push-pull relationship with rate-setting within a range of industry ‘educators’, uncovering the ways in which translators themselves, translation associations, and academic institutions directly and indirectly impact upon rate-setting practices. The article concludes by considering potential channels to buoy status and improve rate-setting practices in the translation industry.
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对于新来翻译的人和资深从业者来说,费率设置都是一个有问题的领域。调查数据普遍支持这样一种观点,即翻译人员感到薪酬过低,金钱问题仍然是道德和务实的主要问题,但关于翻译专业的入门教科书几乎完全没有适当的指导,行业协会编写的文件仍然不令人满意。本文以英国的翻译行业为中心,探讨了限制价格形成实践的制约因素,并认为译者现在比以往任何时候都更容易受到颠覆性技术、优步化和非专业翻译的威胁。我们探索了地位、内部和外部感知以及监管之间的复杂互动,并在一系列行业“教育工作者”中说明了它们与费率制定的推拉关系,揭示了翻译人员自身、翻译协会和学术机构直接和间接影响费率制定实践的方式。文章最后考虑了在翻译行业提高地位和改进费率设置实践的潜在渠道。
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Translation Spaces
Translation Spaces LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS-
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4.90
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12.50%
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19
期刊介绍: Translation Spaces is a biannual, peer-reviewed, indexed journal that recognizes the global impact of translation. It envisions translation as multi-dimensional phenomena productively studied (from) within complex spaces of encounter between knowledge, values, beliefs, and practices. These translation spaces -virtual and physical- are multidisciplinary, multimedia, and multilingual. They are the frontiers being explored by scholars investigating where and how translation practice and theory interact most dramatically with the evolving landscape of contemporary globalization.
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