"If you've done a good job, it's as if you've never existed": Translators on translation in development projects in the Sahel
"If you've done a good job, it's as if you've never existed": Translators on translation in development projects in the Sahel
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“如果你做得很好，就好像你从未存在过一样”：译者谈萨赫勒地区开发项目的翻译
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10.1080/14781700.2020.1749122
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2020
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Heywood E
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翻译在研发项目中是一种基本的、广泛使用的工具，但在最初的设计中往往被视为微不足道或次要的组成部分。这往往导致翻译员和最终用户或专员对翻译任务的假设。针对这种意识的缺乏和由此产生的对翻译结果的误解，本文考察了在委托翻译时发生的翻译过程。它借鉴了非洲萨赫勒一个非政府组织电台发展项目的经验数据，包括对富尔富德、塔马谢克和扎尔马-松海的法语翻译员进行的半结构化访谈，回答围绕四个主题：身份、机构、原文知识和转录/翻译过程。本文对翻译研究和发展研究提出了一些建议，以克服对翻译的轻视态度，并促进将其作为发展和研究项目的核心要素加以考虑。
Translation is an essential and extensively-used tool in research and development projects, yet is frequently sidelined as an insignificant or minor component in the initial design. This often leads to assumptions regarding translation tasks, by both the translator and the end-user or the commissioner. Addressing this lack of awareness and the resultant misunderstandings concerning the translation outcome, this article examines translation processes that take place when translations are commissioned. It draws on empirical data from an NGO radio development project in Africa’s Sahel, including semi-structured interviews with translators working from Fulfuldé, Tamashek, and Zarma-Songhai into French with responses clustered around four themes: identity, agency, source text knowledge and transcription/translation processes. Contributing to translation studies and to development studies, the article provides recommendations on implementing changes to overcome dismissive attitudes towards translation, and to promote its consideration as a core element of development and research projects.