A Critical Reflection on the Use of Translators/Interpreters in a Qualitative Cross-Language Research Project
A Critical Reflection on the Use of Translators/Interpreters in a Qualitative Cross-Language Research Project
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DOI：
10.1177/160940691101000206
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Tyyskae, Vappu
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作者：
Berman, Rachel C.;Tyyskae, Vappu
根据关于移民妇女英语语言习得的定性研究项目的经验，我们批评了传统的实证主义模式，并确定了与笔译/口译员参与女权主义和社区研究相关的一些问题。我们发现的问题相当于翻译语言内容的歧义和所有权的严重问题；关于研究人员、翻译人员和参与者之间的社区熟悉度和文化相似性的假设；研究过程中的权力和权威谈判；以及译者面临的风险。最后，尽管个别研究团队成员对这些缺陷负有责任，并需要努力使我们的研究实践更加包容和公平，但研究的制度背景对与笔译和口译员作为共同研究人员合作的理想替代模式施加了严重限制。
Based on experiences from a qualitative research project on immigrant women's English language acquisition, we critiqued the traditional positivist model, and identified a number of issues related to the engagement of translators/interpreters in feminist and community-based research. The issues that we identified amount to serious questions about ambiguities and ownership of translated language content; assumptions about community familiarity and cultural similarity between researchers, translators, and participants; negotiation of power and authority in the research process; and the risks faced by translators. In the end, though individual research team members bear responsibility over these shortcomings and need to strive to make our research practices more inclusive and equitable, the institutional context of research imposes severe limitations on the ideal alternative model of working with translators and interpreters as co-researchers.