Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit
Biographic Data
| ID | 1624429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sonja |
| FAMILY NAME | Tirkkonen-Condit |
| SIGNATURE | TIRKKONEN-CONDIT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Savonlinna Central Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Translation prototype and how to exploit it in translator education
In this paper I will (1) look at the possibility of defining the translation prototype on theoretical grounds, (2) exemplify findings from empirical research that might help to identify the prototype more closely, and (3) consider the prospects for using the information about the prototype in the education of translators and interpreters. As Halverson (1998) has shown, contemporary theoretical views on translation can be seen as attempts to pin d…
The translation process - interplay between literal rendering and a search for sense
This research focuses on the type and proportion of the revisions made by translators during target text production. Eighteen professional translators used the keyboard logging software Translog while carrying out a translation task on a computer. As Translog registers and displays all keyboard activity in relation to time, all the revisions in the log files can also be identified and counted. The revisions were categorised as revisions of typing…
Cohesion in subtitles: A corpus-based study
It has been shown in earlier research on comparable corpora that translated language differs from non-translated language in its use of the linguistic resources of the target language. For example, language-specific or “unique” items have been shown to manifest significantly lower frequencies in translated Finnish. There are reasons to expect, however, that subtitle language might differ from other varieties of translated language in its exploita…
Back to Translation as Language
In this article, the six authors discuss the question of whether Translation Studies should devote more attention to the linguistic aspect of translation, in view of the tendency in recent years to focus on its social functioning. In the first part, each author tackles one or more aspects of this issue; in the second part, the authors respond to each other's views. Topics covered include what kind of language production translation is, whether tr…
The Monitor Model Revisited: Evidence from Process Research
Research on human translation processes to date reveals that there are many routes to successful performance and that consciousness raising helps to identify undesirable tendencies and routines. Research on translation processes also shows that expertise calls for monitoring skills and self-awareness. This paper focuses on the monitor model of translation and reports on empirical evidence that supports the model. It shows that tendencies towards …
Process Research: State of the Art and Where to Go Next
I will first briefly review the past developments in the research of translation processes and then focus on three items which seem particularly worthy of attention and research effort. First, among the multiplicity of aims and purposes, the search for the features of expertise emerges as a foundation on which the success of many other pursuits depends. Second, there is a need for a critical review, time and again, of established methodologies of…
Metaphoric Expressions in Translation Processes
The hypothesis being tested in the research reported here is the cognitive translation hypothesis, according to which metaphoric expressions take more time to translate if they exploit a different cognitive domain than the 'equivalent' expressions that are available in the target language. According to the hypothesis, it is the search for another cognitive domain (a different conceptual mapping) that causes delay, uncertainty and difficulty in th…
Evaluations - a Key Towards Understanding the Affective Dimension of Translational Decisions
An analysis was done of the evaluative expressions which appeared in the think-aloud data derived from two sets of experiments on professional translators. The aim was to shed light on the affective side of translators' decisions by identifying their professional self-image and their subjective theories of translation. The theories were inferred from evaluations voiced at decision points between translation variants, whereas ideas about the self …
Eu Project Proposals as Hybrid Texts: Observations From a Finnish Research Project
Intercultural communication gives rise to the development of new text types and genres. Particular stages of this development can be described as hybridisa-tion. These are the stages at which the new text types and genres are not yet fully established themselves as forms of communication in a socio-cultural setting: they manifest linguistic and rhetorical features which are felt to be foreign. Hybridisation can be seen as a process comparable to …
Explicitness vs. implicitness of argumentation: An intercultural comparison
L'A. compare les styles d'argumentation utilises dans des editoriaux americains, britanniques et finnois, en se concentrant sur la maniere dont l'argument est exprime (explicitement ou implicitement). Son but est de determiner s'il existe des differences transculturelles entre les styles d'argumentation en question et si ces differences peuvent etre reliees a des facteurs plus specifiques que les differences culturelles globales (ex: la sensibili…
Individualization for a translation class
The Monitor Model Revisited: Evidence from Process Research
Research on human translation processes to date reveals that there are many routes to successful performance and that consciousness raising helps to identify undesirable tendencies and routines. Research on translation processes also shows that expertise calls for monitoring skills and self-awareness. This paper focuses on the monitor model of translation and reports on empirical evidence that supports the model. It shows that tendencies towards …
Evaluations - a Key Towards Understanding the Affective Dimension of Translational Decisions
An analysis was done of the evaluative expressions which appeared in the think-aloud data derived from two sets of experiments on professional translators. The aim was to shed light on the affective side of translators' decisions by identifying their professional self-image and their subjective theories of translation. The theories were inferred from evaluations voiced at decision points between translation variants, whereas ideas about the self …
Explicitness vs. implicitness of argumentation: An intercultural comparison
L'A. compare les styles d'argumentation utilises dans des editoriaux americains, britanniques et finnois, en se concentrant sur la maniere dont l'argument est exprime (explicitement ou implicitement). Son but est de determiner s'il existe des differences transculturelles entre les styles d'argumentation en question et si ces differences peuvent etre reliees a des facteurs plus specifiques que les differences culturelles globales (ex: la sensibili…
Individualization for a translation class
Explicitness vs. implicitness of argumentation: An intercultural comparison
L'A. compare les styles d'argumentation utilises dans des editoriaux americains, britanniques et finnois, en se concentrant sur la maniere dont l'argument est exprime (explicitement ou implicitement). Son but est de determiner s'il existe des differences transculturelles entre les styles d'argumentation en question et si ces differences peuvent etre reliees a des facteurs plus specifiques que les differences culturelles globales (ex: la sensibili…
Eu Project Proposals as Hybrid Texts: Observations From a Finnish Research Project
Intercultural communication gives rise to the development of new text types and genres. Particular stages of this development can be described as hybridisa-tion. These are the stages at which the new text types and genres are not yet fully established themselves as forms of communication in a socio-cultural setting: they manifest linguistic and rhetorical features which are felt to be foreign. Hybridisation can be seen as a process comparable to …
Process Research: State of the Art and Where to Go Next
I will first briefly review the past developments in the research of translation processes and then focus on three items which seem particularly worthy of attention and research effort. First, among the multiplicity of aims and purposes, the search for the features of expertise emerges as a foundation on which the success of many other pursuits depends. Second, there is a need for a critical review, time and again, of established methodologies of…
Metaphoric Expressions in Translation Processes
The hypothesis being tested in the research reported here is the cognitive translation hypothesis, according to which metaphoric expressions take more time to translate if they exploit a different cognitive domain than the 'equivalent' expressions that are available in the target language. According to the hypothesis, it is the search for another cognitive domain (a different conceptual mapping) that causes delay, uncertainty and difficulty in th…
Evaluations - a Key Towards Understanding the Affective Dimension of Translational Decisions
An analysis was done of the evaluative expressions which appeared in the think-aloud data derived from two sets of experiments on professional translators. The aim was to shed light on the affective side of translators' decisions by identifying their professional self-image and their subjective theories of translation. The theories were inferred from evaluations voiced at decision points between translation variants, whereas ideas about the self …
Back to Translation as Language
In this article, the six authors discuss the question of whether Translation Studies should devote more attention to the linguistic aspect of translation, in view of the tendency in recent years to focus on its social functioning. In the first part, each author tackles one or more aspects of this issue; in the second part, the authors respond to each other's views. Topics covered include what kind of language production translation is, whether tr…
The Monitor Model Revisited: Evidence from Process Research
Research on human translation processes to date reveals that there are many routes to successful performance and that consciousness raising helps to identify undesirable tendencies and routines. Research on translation processes also shows that expertise calls for monitoring skills and self-awareness. This paper focuses on the monitor model of translation and reports on empirical evidence that supports the model. It shows that tendencies towards …
Cohesion in subtitles: A corpus-based study
It has been shown in earlier research on comparable corpora that translated language differs from non-translated language in its use of the linguistic resources of the target language. For example, language-specific or “unique” items have been shown to manifest significantly lower frequencies in translated Finnish. There are reasons to expect, however, that subtitle language might differ from other varieties of translated language in its exploita…
The translation process - interplay between literal rendering and a search for sense
This research focuses on the type and proportion of the revisions made by translators during target text production. Eighteen professional translators used the keyboard logging software Translog while carrying out a translation task on a computer. As Translog registers and displays all keyboard activity in relation to time, all the revisions in the log files can also be identified and counted. The revisions were categorised as revisions of typing…
Translation prototype and how to exploit it in translator education
In this paper I will (1) look at the possibility of defining the translation prototype on theoretical grounds, (2) exemplify findings from empirical research that might help to identify the prototype more closely, and (3) consider the prospects for using the information about the prototype in the education of translators and interpreters. As Halverson (1998) has shown, contemporary theoretical views on translation can be seen as attempts to pin d…
Computer Science (10 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · linguistics and terminology studies (6 works) · Natural language processing (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)