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Translation and Web Searching
The book presents a comprehensive study of various cognitive and affective
aspects of web searching for translation problem solving. Research into the
use of the web as an external aid of consultation has frequently occupied a
secondary position in the investigation of translation processes. The book
aims to bridge this gap in the literature. Beginning with a detailed survey
of previous studies of these processes, it then focuses on web search behav-
iors using qualitative and quantitative analysis that presents a multifaceted
overview of translation-oriented web searching. The book concludes by ad-
dressing the implications for the teaching of and research into translators’
web-searching skills. With regard to teaching, the book’s didactic discus-
sions will make it a valuable tool for both translator trainers and transla-
tion students who want to familiarize themselves with the intricacies of web
searching and to refl ect upon the pedagogical implications of the study for
acquiring online information literacy in translator training.
Vanessa Enríquez Raído is a Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the
University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Routledge Advances in Translation Studies
1 Applying Luhmann to 3 Translation and Web Searching
Translation Studies Vanessa Enríquez Raído
Translation in Society
Sergey Tyulenev
2 Interpreting Justice
Ethics, Politics and Language
Moira Inghilleri
Translation and Web
Searching
Vanessa Enríquez Raído
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Raído, Vanessa Enríquez, 1977–
Translation and web searching / By Vanessa Enríquez Raído.
pages cm. — (Routledge Advances in Translation Studies ; #3)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Translating services. 2. Information theory in translating. 3. Internet
searching. I. Title.
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
1 Introduction 1
2 Translation as Problem Solving in Process Research 8
3 Web Searching for Translation Problem Solving 34
4 Methods for Research into Translation and Related
Information Behaviors 66
5 Exploring Translation-Oriented Web Search Behaviors 89
6 Modeling Web Search Behaviors: First Embedding Task 112
7 Modeling Web Search Behaviors: Second Embedding Task 147
8 Summary of Findings and Perspective 172
Notes 187
References 191
Index 195
Page Intentionally Left Blank
Figures and Tables
Figures
5.1 Research Design 92
5.2 Bob’s Progression Chart (Task 1) 107
5.3 Maria’s Progression Chart (Task 1) 108
Tables
3.1 Indicators for Evaluating Web Documents 62
5.1 Languages Spoken by the Student Participants 94
5.2 Example of Coded Data on a Participant’s Online Actions 104
6.1 Reported versus Unreported Information Needs per
Participant (Task 1) 113
6.2 Frequency and Distribution of Common Information
Needs per Participant (Task 1) 116
6.3 Distribution of Information Goals per Common
Information Need (Task 1) 119
6.4 Distribution of Information Goals per Participant (Task 1) 120
6.5 Ranking of Common Information Needs per Session
Length, with Online Actions and Occurrences (Task 1) 128
6.6 Distribution of Pages Accessed per Participant (Task 1) 136
7.1 Reported versus Unreported Information Needs
per Participant (Task 2) 148
7.2 Reported versus Unreported Information Needs
per Participant (Task Comparison) 149
7.3 Individual versus Common Information Needs
(Task Comparison) 150
7.4 Frequency and Distribution of Common Information
Needs per Participant (Task 2) 151
7.5 Distribution of Information Goals per Common
Information Need (Task 2) 153
viii Figures and Tables
7.6 Distribution of Information Goals per Participant (Task 2) 155
7.7 Distribution of Initial Search Actions per Task 155
7.8 Ranking of Common Information Needs per Session
Length, with Online Actions and Occurrences (Task 2) 157
7.9 Distribution of Reference Works per Participant (Task 2) 159
7.10 Query Complexity per Participant (Task Comparison) 160
7.11 Query Type per Participant (Task 2) 162
7.12 Distribution of Pages Accessed per Participant (Task 2) 163
7.13 D egrees of Satisfaction and Diffi culty per Participant
(Task Comparison) 170
Preface
The use of the World Wide Web as a source of information is part and par-
cel of the professional lives of modern translators and translation students
alike. Online dictionaries, terminological databases, and electronic corpora
all represent integral components of translation-oriented documentary re-
search, yet, somewhat surprisingly, translation studies research, until very
recently at least, has rather neglected this important aspect of translator
behavior. Research into the use of the web as an external aid of consultation
has frequently occupied a secondary position in the investigation of trans-
lation processes. Moreover, there are hardly any studies addressing the in-
formation behavior of (student) translators within other relevant domains,
such as documentation, user studies, and information literacy.
Translation and Web Searching, which is a revised version of my doctoral
thesis originally presented in 2011, aims at bridging this gap in the litera-
ture. The monograph represents the fi rst book-length empirical exploration
of web-searching processes for translation problem solving. In doing so, it
represents an interdisciplinary endeavor at the interface of translation stud-
ies and information science.
The book starts with a detailed survey of previous studies of translation
and information search processes, paying particular attention to method-
ological aspects of cognitive research. The book then moves onto describing
a multiple-case study carried out to explore the web search behaviors of a
small group of participants comprising four postgraduate translation stu-
dents in their fi rst year of study and two translators with three and fi fteen
years of experience, respectively. The qualitative and quantitative analyses
that follow present a multifaceted overview of translation-oriented web
search behaviors embedded in the translation of two popular science texts.
The book concludes with a summary of the main fi ndings of the study,
where I will also discuss implications for the teaching of and research into
the web-searching skills of (student) translators.
Given its strong focus on methodological aspects of translation process
research, this book will be particularly useful for advanced postgraduate
students and doctoral students, as well as for researchers with an inter-
est in cognitive aspects of translation in general and in web searching for
