1. For a sociology of translator training
Anthony Pym

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An imaginary space
Omnitranslation
(everyone translates)
Artitranslation
(only specialists translate)
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3. Warruri: 450 people, five languages
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Nubia, 1330 BCE
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Sparta, 485 BCE
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Oranda tsuji, from 1641
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Forced mediators, from 1492
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An imaginary space
High intensity
Omnitranslation
Artitranslation
Low intensity
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9. Transaction costs over time
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10. Esther Torres-Simón (2013)
Korean to English,
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11. Alexandra Assis Rosa (2016)
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Pym (1998)
From Arabic to Latin in the Iberian Peninsula,
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Pym (1998)
Poetry between French and German,
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14. A flexible labor source (Pym et al. 2012)
Part-time: about 60 percent (shared with teaching, interpreting, editing, writing)
Freelance: about 74 percent, with much variation
Women: 70 percent or above

15. So how do you train translators?
It depends...
On the distribution of languages
And the intensity of the information flow.
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16. Negative consequences
“Best practices” are not transferable.
Abstraction is not a way out.
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17. Language-specific classes

18. Language-specific classes

19. Positive consequences
Relations with language teaching
Recognition of skills at different levels
International certification of translators
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