Translation & Interpreting is a refereed international journal that seeks to create a cross-fertilization between research, training and professional practice. It aims to publish high quality, research-based, original articles, that highlight the applications of research results to the improvement of T&I training and practice. It welcomes contributions not only from well-known senior scholars, but also from early-career researchers in the field. Hosted by Western Sydney University, the Journal is universally accessible to researchers, educators, students and practitioners of interpreting and translation, as well as to others interested in the discipline. The Journal does not charge any access or publication fees. Published twice yearly. ISSN 1836-9324
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Vol 10, No 2 (2018): Translation & Interpreting
Special issue: Translation of questionnaires in cross-national and cross-cultural research
Guest editors: Dorothee Behr and Mandy Sha
Table of Contents
Introduction
| Introduction: Translation of questionnaires in cross-national and cross-cultural research | |
| Dorothée Behr, Mandy Sha | 1-4 |
Articles
| Translating questionnaires for cross-national surveys: A description of a genre and its particularities based on the ISO 17100 categorization of translator competences | |
| Dorothée Behr | 5-20 |
| Translation of country-specific programs and survey error: Measuring the education level of immigrants | |
| Patricia Goerman, Leticia Fernandez, Rosanna Quiroz | 21-33 |
| Questionnaire translation in the European Company Survey: Conditions conducive to the effective implementation of a TRAPD-based approach | |
| Maurizio Curtarelli, Gijs van Houten | 34-54 |
| The translator’s perspective on translation quality control processes for international large-scale assessment studies | |
| Britta Upsing, Marc Rittberger | 55-72 |
| Probing for sensitivity in translated survey questions: Differences in respondent feedback across cognitive probe types | |
| Zeina Nazih Mneimneh, Kristen Cibelli Hibben, Lisa Bilal, Sanaa Hyder, Mona Shahab, Abdulrahman Binmuammar, Yasmin Altwaijri | 73-88 |
| Back translation as a documentation tool | |
| Jiyoung Son | 89-100 |
| Using video technology to engage deaf sign language users in survey research: An example from the Insign project | |
| Jemina Napier, Katherine Lloyd, Robert Skinner, Graham H Turner, Mark Wheatley | 101-121 |
| English to Spanish translated medical forms: A descriptive genre-based corpus study | |
| Patricia Gonzalez Darriba | 122-141 |
| Translation and visual cues: Towards creating a road map for limited English speakers to access translated Internet surveys in the United States | |
| Mandy Sha, Y. Patrick Hsieh, Patricia L. Goerman | 142-158 |