Research issues in Translation Studies

The following is a collection of short pieces on research issues in Translation Studies. The series was initiated by Daniel Gile, and many of the entries were also written by Daniel Gile.

The pieces reflect their authors' views at the time they are posted, and are essentially published for the purpose of providing such input and stimulating discussion. They are not to be seen as final statements, and may be changed or withdrawn at any time at the request of their authors.

Contents

  CITATIONS

Citations and references talk (May 8, 2006)

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

How to choose the most relevant parameters to be controlled in an empirical study (August 12, 2006)

LIBERAL ARTS AND EMPIRICAL SCIENCE

The liberal arts paradigm and the empirical science paradigm (January 22, 2005)

• Translation research: LAP versus/with ESP? (October 22, 2005)
• Qualitative research in TS - interdisciplinarity + intermethodology (March 2, 2005)
• Qualitative research, methods and data (February 23, 2005)
• Qualitative and Quantitative Research and Empirical Translation Studies (February 17, 2005)
• "Scientific facts" (January 22, 2005)
• Institutional measures for norm enforcement (January 5, 2005)
• Scientific norms (December 8, 2004)
• Combination and Triangulation of Methods and Data (December 29, 2005)

  PROBABILITY AND SAMPLING

When is a law probabilistic? (November 27, 2005

• Sampling 1: Sampling-based studies as case studies (July 12, 2006)
• Sampling 2: Generalizing from case studies (July 18, 2006)
• Sampling 3: The effect of bias in samples (September 8, 2006)

PUBLISHING

• Publishers and Academics: Partnerships or Power Relationships? (February 19, 2006)
• Contracts with publishers - Fundamentals (April 2, 2005)
• Editing collective volumes (September 2005)
• Creating an electronic journal: opportunities and challenges. The story of Jostrans, The Journal of Specialised Translation (September 2005)
• Publishing in TS: the authors’ and referees’ viewpoint (September 2005)
• Peer reviewing (September 2005)
• Editing TS journals (September 2005)
• The editorial process through the looking glass (September 2004)

SUPERVISION

• The psychological aspect of supervision (September 2004)
• Formalising supervision – A step towards better quality? (September 2004)
• Results of surveys of research students (September 2004)
• First encounters in supervision (September 2004)
• Standardization of supervision procedures: the cross-cultural perspective (September 2004)
• Code of practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in higher education (September 2004)
• PhD contract, University of Helsinki (September 2004)

  SURVEYS

• Do respondents to surveys tell the truth? (February 16, 2006)
• Developing questions for surveys (April 4, 2006)
• Reasons for piloting questionnaires (March 30, 2006)

  TERMINOLOGY

• Terminology (July 30, 2005)

 

    TEXTS

      ▪   Text Perspectives and Translation (November 1, 2006)

 

OTHER TOPICS

• Translationland (October 2, 2006)
• A note on explanation (October 1, 2006)
• Observing visualisations (June 8, 2005)
• Description – examples from empirical TS (June 2, 2005)
• Description (April 26, 2005)
• What makes empirical research scientific (March 2009)
  Humanities and ESP: The case of history (January 2008)

 

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