translator
Let an agent explain the translator profession and its specialisations, relay qualifications, certification and working practice from professional sources, describe historical roles, and distinguish translators from interpreters and machine translation.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the translator profession and its specialisations, relay qualifications, certification and working practice from professional sources, describe historical roles, and distinguish translators from interpreters and machine translation.
A person who renders written text from one language into another, as distinct from an interpreter who works with speech, in roles such as literary, technical, legal and medical translators, authorised or sworn translators certified for official documents, dubbing and subtitling translators for audiovisual media, fan translators of video games and other media, and historical figures such as the dragoman of the Ottoman world and the lotsawa translators of Buddhist texts into Tibetan; translators are classified by source and target language and work with dictionaries, terminology and translation technology.
What it is for: Rendering written texts between languages.
It can be explain the profession; relay qualifications and certification; describe specialisations and history; distinguish from interpreters.
Distinguishing features
Written medium
Language pair specialisation
Domain expertise
Certification for official use
What it looks like
Not a visible object; a language professional working with texts.
Physical character
ISCO-08 unit group: 2643 number - translators, interpreters and other linguists
How it is recognised
Person who translates written text
Literary, technical, legal, authorised, dubbing and fan translators; dragomans and lotsawas
Interpreters work orally; localisers adapt products; machine translation is software
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms, of the translated text
is contrasted with - who works with speech
In practice
Families and kinds
literary translators
technical, scientific, legal and medical translators
authorised, sworn or certified translators
audiovisual translators for dubbing and subtitling
fan translators of video games and media
translators by source and target language
historical translators such as dragomans and lotsawas
Identifiers
ISCO-08 2643 translators, interpreters and other linguists
Standards and regulation
ISO 17100 translation services
National sworn translator laws and certification
Copyright law on translations
Professional association codes
Failure modes and hazards
Confusing translators with interpreters
Unqualified translation of official documents
Stale information on certification rules by country
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.translator
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What a translator is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a translator, and how does the role differ from interpreter, localiser and machine translation? definition
- Is the question about translators in general, a specialisation or a historical role? boundary
Specialisations
Specialisations.
Specialisations
Specialisations.
- What are literary, technical, legal, authorised, dubbing and fan translators? definition
- Which entry fits the specific specialisation? action
Profession Profession.
Regulation.
Qualifications
Qualifications and certification.
Qualifications
Qualifications.
- How do translators train, and how do sworn or authorised translator systems work by country? provenance
- Is the user asking about certifying a specific document, which needs the relevant authority? boundary
Practice
Working practice.
Practice
Practice.
- How do translators work with terminology, CAT tools and machine translation post-editing? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Theory Theory and quality.
Attribution.
Theory
Translation theory.
Theory
Theory.
- What do translation studies say about fidelity, equivalence and the translator voice, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Rights
Rights and recognition.
Rights
Rights.
- How are translators credited and protected by copyright? provenance
- Which entry fits translation copyright? action
Context History.
Context.
History
History.
History
History.
- What roles did dragomans, lotsawas and other historical translators play? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of translation? action
Future
Technology.
Future
Future.
- How is machine translation changing the profession, with research attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits machine translation? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should sworn translator and dragoman be separate entries?
- How should professional body sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specialisations and historical roles; should they be split off?