Context Counts : Rethinking the Ethics of Translation and its Implications for Translator Education

• 발행기관: 한국통번역교육학회
• 저자명: Wang Xiu lu
• 간행물 정보: 『통번역교육연구』제10권 제1호, 43~68쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.06.30

영문 초록

In the past two decades, there has been considerable reflection on translation ethics and the translator’s responsibility. This paper reviews some of the prominent arguments on this topic and points out that while most studies of translation ethics have mainly focused on identifying various values of translation without rendering a systematic framework in dealing with potential value conflicts embedded in the translator’s work in reality. To address this problem, this paper borrows insights from recent developments in medical ethics to promote a contextual perspective in examining ethically related issues in translation practice. In putting forward the idea that ethical decision making in translation is based on context rather than fixed dogma, we also explore how this idea may apply in the educational setting. This paper argues for a departure from the traditional teacher-centered and text-driven teaching, to a learner-centered and competence-oriented teaching in translator education. To facilitate this shift, a task-based method of teaching is proposed, which, as compared with traditional exercise-based pedagogy, may be more effective in fostering ethical competence of future professional translators.

목차

I. Introduction

II. Various perspectives on the ethics of translation

III. Rethinking the ethics of translation from a contextual perspective

IV. Developing ethical competence in translator education

V. Context counts: a task-based method in ethics education

VI. Conclusion

References

Abstract

키워드

번역윤리 맥락상 의미 윤리능력 과제 중심 교육 Ethics of translation contextual meaning ethical competence task-based teaching