EST Newsletter's "Hot Topic": Workplace Studies

27.11.2023

New open access article by Socotrans: "But what about the emic perspective? An ethnographic approach to investigating translation expertise"

The November issue of the Newsletter of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) contains an article co-authored by the Socotrans research team.

This article advocates for a shift in Translation Studies research towards an emic perspective on translation expertise, emphasizing the importance of ethnographic methods to understand how expertise is perceived and practiced in authentic workplace contexts. The authors introduce their FWF-funded project, Rethinking Translation Expertise (RETREX), which employs ethnographic approaches to explore the social, performative, and situative aspects of expertise in translation workplaces.

Antonia Baumann, Kerstin Pasterk, Hanna Risku, Regina Rogl, Daniela Schlager & Anna Sourdille (2023): "But what about the emic perspective? An ethnographic approach to investigating translation expertise" EST Newsletter November 2023, 6.

The full article can be downloaded below.