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标题：Spoiled for choice? Uncertainty facing options in translation
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作者：Celia Martín de León ; José María Cardona Guerra
期刊名称：Translation and Interpreting
电子版ISSN：1836-9324
出版年度：2022
卷号：14
期号：2
页码：50-67
DOI：10.12807/ti.114202.2022.a04
语种：English
出版社：University of Western Sydney
摘要：Uncertainty is inherent to translating. Texts tend to have many valid renditions, and the outcome of a translation can never be fully anticipated. This study investigates the relationship between uncertainty in translation and the range of options available to translation students. To do so, we applied Muñoz & Cardona’s (2019) approach to task segmentation and pause analysis to study translation processes in 19 translation trainees working on the same source text with a key- logger. We identified 10 potential hesitation indicator types in the key-logged processes. Target texts were then scrutinized using choice network analysis (Campbell, 2000) in order to identify and quantify the choices made by the participants. The relationship between the quantified hesitation indicators and the number of options for each segment was explored, and no correlation was found between them. Participants did not always hesitate between all available options, their decisions did not always determine further ones in a linear way, and indecision sometimes remained after the end of the process. The results suggest that decision making processes in translation cannot be fruitfully approached as games with complete information, but they could be explained from a broader perspective that accounts for risk taking and incomplete information.