By Vanessa Enríquez Raído

The e-book provides a entire examine of varied cognitive and affective features of internet looking for translation challenge fixing. examine into using the internet as an exterior reduction of session has usually occupied a secondary place within the research of translation procedures. The ebook goals to bridge this hole within the literature. starting with an in depth survey of earlier reports of those strategies, it then focuses on web seek behaviors utilizing qualitative and quantitative research that provides a multifaceted evaluate of translation-oriented internet looking out. The e-book concludes through addressing the results for the instructing of and examine into translators’ internet looking abilities. in regards to instructing, the book's didactic discussions will make it a precious instrument for either translator running shoes and translation scholars eager to familiarize themselves with the intricacies of internet looking and to mirror upon the pedagogical implications of the learn for buying on-line info literacy in translator training.

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Pavlovic´, for example, found that the subjects of her study tended to “rely more on external resources in L2 translation than in L1 translation,” which, in turn, “confirms what teachers of translation intuitively know, and that is the importance of research and documentation skills in L2 translation” (2007: 192). This seems to be one of the reasons why Livbjerg and Mees decided to study the role of dictionaries in L2 translation as opposed to L1 translation. Third, as acknowledged by Luukkainen and House, the researcher’s choice of reference material may influence the subjects’ behaviors concerning their preference of certain resources over others.

This seems to be particularly true with regard to subjectrelated searches for which reference works other than dictionaries could be very helpful indeed. I do realize, however, that having subjects translate a specialized text may constrain their research processes to the level of specialized terminology only. This may in fact be one of the reasons why some of the researchers mentioned previously, in particular Livbjerg and Mees, decided against having domain-specific texts in their experiments of resource consultation.

Spink, Park, and Cole (2006) also propose an integrated HIB framework for the coordination and integration of the different HIB levels, or areas of research, albeit from a multitasking point of view. The relationship among these areas is naturally a close one: IB may inform the overall principles of IS, which in turn may inform the design of IR systems and users’ interactions with these systems (IIR). Web searching is mostly associated with IIR, a field in which user-centered approaches taking both the information searcher and the IR system into account developed over time to counterbalance the strong system-orientedness of IR studies (Aula 2005: 6).

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