Researching Multilingually

“多语言研究”是一个AHRC研究网络项目，旨在通过研究和数据收集过程探索文化如何被翻译。如今，许多研究人员发现自己处于多语言社区的研究环境中，或者他们正在从事涉及其他文化的人和/或事件的项目。在这些情况下，他们经常发现他们需要用另一种语言进行采访，或者使用一种对受访者来说是外语的语言；或者他们可能需要将对话、事件或文件从一种语言翻译成另一种语言。在这些背景下，研究者经常面临着如何解释和解释语言意图和意义差异的方法论、实践和伦理困境。同样，这些项目的参与者有时会觉得他们在翻译和口译过程中被歪曲了。因此，在通过语言进行文化翻译时，误解和误解的可能性是巨大的。然而，无论是在文献中还是通过研究方法培训方案，关于这些语言过程的信息都很少。该研究网络项目旨在通过邀请36名研究人员讨论他们在多语言研究中面临的复杂性和挑战来解决这一研究缺口。我们的目标是在三个为期两天的研讨会中揭示多语言研究的最佳实践和陷阱。研究人员将被邀请讨论研究设计，仪器，数据收集和生成，解释和翻译，并撰写研究报告。项目小组将综合新发现，并为多语言研究制定建议和指导方针。这些成果将通过研讨会传播给亚洲人权委员会研究界、公共/私营/第三部门研究组织和博士培训中心。网络项目的调查结果/成果也将公布在网络网站上，以便所有研究人员和研究培训方案（例如高等教育）能够加以实施。该网络项目还将促成国际会议和出版物。一个预期的发展将包括一个后续项目，在这个项目中，选定的研究人员的研讨会将发表在一本国际同行评议期刊的特刊和一本编辑过的书中。总体而言，研究网络项目的结果将导致对其他语言和他们所居住的文化的人的理解、报告和代表的改善。

"Researching Multilingually" is an AHRC Research Networking project that aims to explore how cultures are translated through research and data collection processes. Many researchers nowadays find themselves in research contexts where there are multilingual communities, or they are working on projects that involve people and/or events in other cultures. In these situations, they often find that they need to conduct interviews in another language, or use a language which is foreign to interviewees; or they may be required to interpret or translate a dialogue, event or document from one language to another. In these contexts researchers are often faced with methodological, practical, and ethical dilemmas as to how to interpret and explain differences in linguistic intent and meaning. Similarly, participants in these projects sometimes feel that they have been misrepresented through processes of translation and interpretation. Thus, the potential for misinterpretation and misunderstanding in translating cultures-through language-is immense. Yet little information about these linguistic processes is available, either in the literature or via research methods training programmes. This research network project aims to address this research gap by inviting 36 researchers to discuss the complexities and challenges they face in researching multilingually. We aim to expose-in three two-day seminars-best practice and pitfalls in researching multilingually. Researchers will be invited to discuss research design, instruments, data collection and generation, interpretation and translation, and writing up of research. The project team will synthesise the emergent findings and develop recommendations and guidelines for researching multilingually. These outcomes will be disseminated to the AHRC research community, public/private/third sector research organisations, and Doctoral Training Centres via a workshop. Network project findings/outcomes will also be posted on the network website so that they can be implemented by all researchers, and researching training programmes, e.g., in higher education. The network project will also result in international conferences and publications. An intended development will include a follow-up project where selected researchers' seminars will be published in a special issue of an international, peer-reviewed journal and an edited book. Overall, the outcomes of the research network project will result in improved understanding, reporting, and representation of people of other languages and the cultures in which they reside.