2018, Vol.8, No.

T&I REVIEW 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.52

pISSN : 2233-9221 / eISSN : 2713-8720
https://journal.kci.go.kr/erits

The machine translation industry’s shift from Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) to Neural Machine Translation (NMT) has recently brought renewed focus on Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) in translation pedagogy. The purpose of this paper is to propose a CAT tool based on classroom parallel corpora. Trankit, a CAT software prototype the author designed, offers a powerful web-based platform for trainee translators along with a wide range of advanced search options and linguistic information such as concordance lines, syntax trees, and frequency information so that students can make full use of their corpus databases. Section 2 and 3 are literature reviews on parallel corpora and CAT, which are the central concepts forming the theoretical background of the design. Section 4 asserts the necessity of a new CAT tool in relations to these two underlying concepts. Section 5 presents the user interface of the program, exploring applications of CAT in translation training.

This study explores the role Chinese government in-house interpreters have played at several high-level annual press conferences hosted by the Chinese government. By analyzing their interpreting choices for elements of MOOD, defined in the Systemic Functional Linguistic as a discourse analysis tool and using data from a self-built corpus consisting of multiple video clips of the events, this study has discovered that the interpreters realise a level of interpersonal alignment with only one party in interpreter-mediated communication, and that the choices of alignment are heavily affected by the interpreter’s evaluation of the power relationship. The findings also suggest that although greatly constrained by their institutional roles, these interpreters remain as linguistic professionals. However, their grammatical choices demonstrate a tendency of their shifting social positions between the speaker and the addressees, betraying their deliberate efforts in embracing two roles in interpreting for the press conferences - one as inseparable part of the institution with allegiance pledged to the government, and the other as individual interpreters adhering to the norms of the profession.

This study aims to investigate the need for translation within the beauty(hair) industry. First, the meaning of culture and culture industry was addressed, followed by an overview of the beauty industry in general. A survey was conducted on a group of professional hair designers and students majoring in hair design. Survey questions were divided into six categories. The result of the survey showed that the professional hair designers did not think English was important in their practice while recognizing the need for practitioners to have a basic command of English. In order to explain this phenomenon, a set of translation theories including the poly system theory was explored. As the result, it was found that the poly system theory, which was deemed useful in explaining many translation phenomena, needed to be applied from a different light for situations where language was involved as a secondary condition as was the case in this study. (Chungbuk National University, Korea, Hanseo University, Korea)