1st Edition
Institutional Translator Training
Introduction: Institutional translation and training
Tomáš Svoboda, Łucja Biel, and Vilelmini Sosoni
Section I: Competences
1. Institutional translation – EMT Competence Framework and beyond
Nicolas Froeliger, Alexandra Krause and Leena Salmi
2. Skills and knowledge required of translators in institutional settings
Anne Lafeber
3. Institutional translation profiles: A comparative analysis of descriptors and requirements
Fernando Prieto Ramos and Diego Guzmán
4. Institutional translator training in language and translation technologies
Tomáš Svoboda and Vilelmini Sosoni
5. Institutional translation and the translation process: Cognitive resources, digital resources, and translator training
Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund
6. Translating for the EU institutions: External translation service providers and training
Vilelmini Sosoni
Section II: Practices of translator training at university level
7. Institutional translation training in university settings: The current landscape
Catherine Way and Anna Jopek-Bosiacka
8. Institutions’ outreach to and involvement with universities: How international organizations collaborate with universities in training translators
Łucja Biel and M. Rosario Martín Ruano
9. Value creating pedagogy in the context of institutional translation training in Argentina: A case study
Lorena Baudo
Section III: Practices of translator training: Continuing professional development in institutions around the world
10. Taking Canadian revision workshops to institutions abroad
Brian Mossop
11. CPD practices in China’s institutional translation: A case study of the China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration
Tao Li
12. Translation-related CPD at the European Parliament
Valter Mavrič
13. Translation-related CPD at the European Commission
Merit-Ene Ilja
14. Training lawyer linguists at the Court of Justice of the European Union: Induction and continuing professional development
Madis Vunder and Claude-Olivier Lacroix
15. Translator training at United Nations Headquarters, New York
Anne Lafeber
Index
Biography
Tomáš Svoboda is researcher, university lecturer, and Director of the Institute of Translation Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic. Formerly, Tomáš worked in-house with DGT EC, Luxembourg, and as a contractor for the ECB, Germany. He is a member of the EMT board, and his numerous publications focus on Institutional Translation Studies, tools and technologies in translation, and theoretical Translation Studies.
Łucja Biel is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Translation Studies and Head of EUMultiLingua research group in the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, Poland. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Specialised Translation. She has published extensively on EU/legal translation, legal terminology, translator training and corpus linguistics, including the book Lost in the Eurofog. The Textual Fit of Translated Law (2014).
Vilelmini Sosoni is Assistant Professor of Economic, Legal and Political Translation at the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting at the Ionian University in Corfu, Greece. She is the vice-president of the Greek Association for Translation Studies and a founding member of the Greek chapter of Women in Localization. She has published extensively on EU translation as well as translation and technology.
