Mobile translation applications On the verge of a post-Babel world 2.0?

移动翻译应用程序处于后 Babel 世界 2.0 的边缘吗？

• 批准号: 1937968
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1937968
• 关键词: Mobile; translation; applications; verge; post

What effects are mobile translation applications having on translation as an activity and translation studies? How is this affecting users' perceptions of translation? Is this another step in the trend of deskilling and devaluing translation into a low autonomy profession? (O'Hagan 2016, Kenny 2016) Are we on the cusp of a world where the language barrier is no more? The project will explore these questions by investigating the different types of machine translation (MT) used in the most popular of these apps, such as Google Translate and Microsoft Translator. It will then examine how users are actually engaging with these apps and their expectations through a survey and focus groups to discover whether they are enabling greater cross-cultural communication and changing our relationship with other languages and cultures. Finally, it will explore how the spread of 4G/5G mobile networks, offline translations and the increased use of mobile phones while roaming are allowing people to engage more with these apps and how translation studies is responding to this phenomenon.

手机翻译应用对翻译活动和翻译研究有什么影响？这对用户对翻译的看法有何影响？这是不是又一次将翻译贬低为自主性较低的职业呢？(O‘Hagan 2016，Kenny 2016)我们正处于一个语言障碍消失的世界的边缘吗？该项目将通过调查谷歌翻译和微软翻译等最受欢迎的应用程序中使用的不同类型的机器翻译来探索这些问题。然后，它将通过一项调查和焦点小组来检查用户实际上是如何使用这些应用程序的，以及他们的期望，以发现它们是否促进了更大的跨文化交流，并改变了我们与其他语言和文化的关系。最后，它将探索4G/5G移动网络的普及、离线翻译和漫游时更多地使用手机是如何让人们更多地参与这些应用程序的，以及翻译研究如何应对这一现象。

项目成果

Impacts of Mobile Use and Experience on Contemporary Society -

移动使用和体验对当代社会的影响 -

• DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7885-7.ch012
• 发表时间: 2019
• 作者: Liu N