Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Translation

115 Pages·2016·0.88 MB·English

by  Bendana Lola

Almost

Everything you ever
wanted to know about

Lola Bendana and Alan Melby

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Published by Multi-Languages Corporation
Toronto, Canada
May 2012
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Everything you ever wanted to know about translation

Table of Contents
About the authors ...................................................... 5 
Acknowledgements .................................................... 8 
Introduction .............................................................. 13 
Part I: for everyone .................................................. 15 
Part II: especially for Translators and Project
Managers ................................................................. 32 
Certification .............................................................. 32 
Revision Parameters ................................................ 36 
Translation and Computers ...................................... 45 
Appendix I - Resources for the Translator ............... 47 
A.  National and International Associations and
organizations .................................................. 48 
B.  Glossaries and Termbases ............................ 53 
C.  Other Resources for translators ..................... 63 
Appendix II - Ethics .................................................. 64 
Appendix III - Translation Standards ........................ 81 
About the sponsor - Multi-Languages Corporation .. 93 
Bibliography ............................................................. 98 
Glossary ................................................................. 105 
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About the authors

Lola Bendana
Lola has a degree in international relations with a
specialization in Latin American Studies and English-
Spanish interpreting and translation. She worked in Costa
Rica as a cultural/foreign affairs facilitator with the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs and as head of international relations
with the Nicaraguan Committee for Refugees. After
immigrating to Canada, she worked as a freelancer for the
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
Canada offering pre-departure and intercultural
effectiveness courses on Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Lola has been involved in the translation and interpreting
field for over 20 years; since 1997, she has been the
Director of Multi-Languages Corporation.

In the past, she served as a member of the Board of
Directors of the Healthcare Interpretation Network (HIN);
she chaired the Terminology Committee and the Policy
Committee where she led the project to create the National
Standards of Canada for Community Interpreting; she
participated in the Critical Link Canada Standards of
Practice and Training Committee; she was invited to join
the Language Interpretation Training Curriculum Advisory
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Committee headed by the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship -
MCI in collaboration with College Connect; she was
selected as a voting member of the technical Committee of
the Canadian General Standards Board that created the
Canadian National Translation Service Standards CAN
CGSB 131.10-2008; she was voted the representative for
Canada in the International Medical Interpreters
Association (IMIA). In 2007 she won the Language
Industry Association (AILIA) National Award for
Outstanding Contribution to the translation sector.

Presently, she serves on the Board of Directors of the
Language Industry Association of Canada (AILIA), is the
Vice-Chair of the Association and member of the
Translation and Interpreting Committee. Lola is a member
of the Canadian Advisory Committee to ISO TC37 where
she participates as an expert delegate to create
international standards for translation and interpreting. She
is a current member of the ASTM F43 Committee on
Language Services. Lola has served on the IMIA
Executive Board and currently serves as the President of
the IMIA.

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Alan Melby

Dr. Melby is Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young
University. He is an ATA-certified French-to-English
translator and a member of the ATA board of directors. He
began his career in translation in 1970 with a set of ideas
about language that he has since repudiated. See his book
The Possibility of Language from Benjamins Publishing
Company (1995) for a discussion of this intellectual
journey. Since the early 1980s, he has worked on the
practical problem of developing technology to assist
human translators be more effective. He designed one of
the first PC-based terminology management systems and
was co-editor of the first version of the TMX standard for
exchanging translation memories. He is now the editor of
the TBX standard for exchanging termbase information.

He was part of the team that developed the ASTM
translation quality assurance standard (ASTM F2575) and
is a member of the US delegation to ISO Technical
Committee 37, where most ISO language-related
standards, including translation standards, are developed.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank a group of wonderful colleagues for
contributing and providing feedback on this work.

Denis Louis Bousquet
Denis Louis Bousquet is president/owner of Nautilus
Translation Ltd., and specializes in the translation of
technical documents. For the last few years, he has held
the position of Director, Independent Translators at the
Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario
(ATIO). He just completed a 3-year term as President of
the Canadian Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters
Council (CTTIC) during which he secured a financial
contribution from the federal government to create a
national online continuing education program for the
language professionals, cttic-edu.ca. Denis Louis currently
represents Canada on the International Federation of
Translators (FIT) Council, and has been appointed FIT
representative for North America.

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Helen Campbell
Helen Campbell was a staff member of the Interpreting
Service of the European Commission in Brussels from
1973 until April 2011. A highly experienced trainer of
conference interpreters, she continues to give master
classes in interpreting at universities all over the world and
also runs training for trainers seminars and CPD courses
on demand.
She is an Honorary Member of the Chartered Institute of
Linguists and of the Irish Translators' and Interpreters'
Association, an external consultant for London
Metropolitan University and a member of the Advisory
Board of the Research Centre for Translation and
Interpreting Studies of the University of Leicester and of
the European project "Optimale".
She has co-edited four publications: "Reflections on Legal
Translation", "Translating Justice", "Language, Law and
Translation" and "Essays on legal and Institutional
Translation" with Jesus Baigorri and Iciar Alonso of the
University of Salamanca, published by Comares, Granada.
In addition to her training activities, she is often a guest
speaker, particularly at University careers events and has
gained a reputation as a lively, knowledgeable and
entertaining public speaker.
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Nelida Chan
Nelida Chan has a Master in English, York University and
has been working as a terminologist for over 20 years. She
is currently working in the Terminology Unit of the Ontario
Government Translation Service. She has been teaching
terminology in the School of Translation since 1988 and
more recently in the Master in Translation program at
Glendon College, York University.

Effie Fragkou
Effie Fragkou has a BA in French Language (University of
Athens; Greece), a Master in Professional Translation
(Université Marc Bloch; France), a Master in Translation
Studies (York University; Canada) and has recently
received her PhD in Translation Studies from the
University of Ottawa (2012). She has been working as a
translator for 15 years and a community interpreter for over
6 years. She currently develops a curriculum for training
interpreters in a medical setting for Glendon’s Master
Program in Interpretation while working as a FSL teacher
for the Greek government. Her academic interests include
the following topics: retranslation theory, community
interpreting, discourse analysis, the social aspects of
localization and translation, professionalization, training
and accreditation of community interpreters.
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