Análise do processo tradutório de estudantes de tradução e tradutores profissionais no par linguístico Chinês mandarim => Português europeu

Abstract

Drawing on methods developed for translation process research, this study aims to analyze the translation process of nine professional translators and eight students without professional experience in translation. They performed a translation task of a news text in the language pair Chinese Mandarin => European Portuguese. Prior to task execution using the Translog software (JAKOBSEN; SCHOU, 1999), participants answered a profile questionnaire. Upon translation task execution, participants reported on their performance through free retrospective verbal protocols. Results confirmed findings of previous studies evidencing professional translators take a shorter time to perform translation tasks than students (JAKOBSEN, 2002; BUCHWEITZ; ALVES, 2006; PAVLOVIĆ; JENSEN, 2009; JAKOBSEN; JENSEN, 2008). However, the study did not show that professional translators have a longer revision phase than translation students (JAKOBSEN, 2002; BUCHWEITZ; ALVES, 2006). Results also showed that students worked at a higher translation speed, translating more words per minute than students, thus not confirming Jakobsen’s (2003) findings. Finally, professional translators were found to show a higher level of metareflection than translation students (ALVES, 2005).