Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: With the development of technology, jobs once performed by a human have now been undertaken by machines with advanced software.As a result, everyday life becomes more manageable in most areas, and new working areas have appeared.Translation has also been affected by these innovations.When developing the Skopos Theory, Reiss and Vermeer (1984) defined a translator as a cultural/bilingual expert responsible for interlingual and intercultural communication.In those years when the expert identity of the translator was explained, computers were not ordinary, and translators generally worked isolated behind closed doors.Nonetheless, in the twenty-first century, the need for translation increased, and new areas of expertise in translation have become widespread.Audiovisual translation, game translation, localization, and post-editing are, for example, a few of them.Based on a descriptive approach, the study handles the concept of post-editing, a new activity a translator can undertake in a translation project, by offering some suggestions through samples to prospective and professional translators.These suggestions may be helpful in the translation of the text to be correctly received by the target audience.It is hoped that these suggestions will be beneficial in increasing the quality/clarity of translation and productivity.While the definition of post-editing is explained in detail, it is observed that the post-editing process within the translation projects might vary from translation to translation.Individual translators might obey different approaches during the post-editing of raw translations.One of the primary reasons can be that the concept of post-editing is not understood well by prospective translators.This can cause some problems when they graduate.Because translators blindly sticking to machine translation may plagiarise unconsciously in translation instead of applying to post-editing as it should be.Therefore the translator may not reflect their expertise in translation.This situation may return to making less effort in translation over time and pose an ethical problem.However, through the post-editing, the translator gives the final version to the raw output.The translator's identity should always be at the forefront, though.Because even though the translators spend less time during the translation compared to previous periods, or at least the time wasted in translation has been compensated by new technologies, the translator is an expert in knowing when and under what conditions he/she will interfere with the translation thanks to his/her professional identity.In this way, the translator can determine whether light or full post-editing is required by positioning himself/herself in the translation process and considering the text type/traditions.Then the translated text can give an impression as if it were translated following the correct post-editorial decisions.This is necessary for making the mechanical structure of the text produced by the machine humanized.
DOI: 10.29228/ijlet.63373
Author: Mehmet Cem ODACIOĞLU
Institution: Bartin University
Language: Turkish
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4296970752