Teaching and Researching Literary Translation in the Digital Context: PEnPAL in Trans as a Case-study

Authors

  • Margarida Vale de Gato Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa
  • Maarten Janssen Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa
  • Rita Queiroz de Barros Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa
  • Susana Valdez Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa; Universidade Nova de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-1_4

Keywords:

applied literary translation, digital translation studies, collaborative translation, translated anthologies, data-base of translation problems

Abstract

The digital reinvention of literary studies within literary translation teaching and research informs the PEnPAL in Trans project. This inter-institutional venture joins higher education agents and researchers in Translation Studies, Literary Studies and Linguistics. Elaborating on the notions of process-oriented education and “social constructivism” (Kiraly, 2000), PEnPAL in Trans has developed a specific awareness of the literary translator’s “expert action” (Jones, 2011). Drawing on a project-based philosophy of translation training, it envisions the translated anthology as a collaborative format with potential in the digital environment. The database on English-Portuguese transfer problems under development combines the advantages of translation manuals and example-driven tools as translation memories. Thus, it will constitute a categorized database of examples from hard-to-translate texts together with their translation(s) and translation strategy(ies). This database will be accessible online, thereby providing a public tool on the English-Portuguese language pair. 

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-1_4

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Maarten Janssen, Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa

Departamento e Centro de Estudos Anglísticos, área de Linguística Inglesa

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2016-02-28

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Vale de Gato, Margarida, Maarten Janssen, Rita Queiroz de Barros, and Susana Valdez. 2016. “Teaching and Researching Literary Translation in the Digital Context: PEnPAL in Trans As a Case-Study”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 4 (1):63-80. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_4-1_4.

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