Intralingual translation in healthcare settings: strategies and proposals for medical translator training

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Published: Dec 20, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2018.10.7
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intralingual translation, comprehensibility, medical translator training, fact sheets for patients, textual genre

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Ana Muñoz-Miquel
Universitat Jaume I
Pilar Ezpeleta-Piorno
Universitat Jaume I
Paula Saiz-Hontangas
Universitat Jaume I

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Recent studies have shown that medical translators are increasingly called upon to write patient information materials by reformulating specialised texts, either inter- or intralingually (Muñoz-Miquel 2014, 2016a). This activity requires applying a series of intralingual translation skills, which, however, are rarely addressed in medical translator training programmes. This paper aims to contribute to filling this gap by putting forward a proposal designed to help translators acquire these skills. For this purpose, we take as a starting point an empirical study carried out by the GENTT Research Group (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) in which a series of intralingual strategies were used to make real fact sheets for cancer patients more comprehensible and effective for these readers. After describing the strategies, which were validated by the patients, we offer a training proposal aimed at fostering medical translators’ skills for dealing with this type of intralingual translation.

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Muñoz-Miquel, A., Ezpeleta-Piorno, P., & Saiz-Hontangas, P. (2018). Intralingual translation in healthcare settings: strategies and proposals for medical translator training. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (10), 177–204. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2018.10.7
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Ana Muñoz-Miquel, Universitat Jaume I

Ana Muñoz-Miquel is a Lecturer in the Translation and Communication Department at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), where she teaches for the Degree in Translation and Interpreting and the Master’s Degree in Medical and Healthcare Translation. Her doctoral thesis, on the profile and competences of medical translators, won the Special Doctorate Award at the UJI and the Biennial Best Thesis Award granted by the Iberian Association for Translation and Interpreting Studies. During her career she has worked as a freelance translator and has been a pre-doctoral and post-doctoral researcher at the UJI. She is currently a member of the GENTT research group (UJI) and a collaborator in the CiTrans group (Universitat de València). Her research interests prominently include medical translation, competence-based training and communication aimed at patients, and she has published on these subject in journals such as Target, Linguistica Antverpiensia, Trans, Sendebar, JoSTrans, Hermēneus and Panace@.

Pilar Ezpeleta-Piorno, Universitat Jaume I

Pilar Ezpeleta-Piorno is a Senior Lecturer in translation at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), where she is Head of the Translation and Communication Department. Her main research interests and publications deal with textual genres for translation, specialised translation, and literary and theatre translation. She is now engaged in the research teams Textual Genres for Translation (GENTT) and European Languages and Cultures and New Literary and Audiovisual Languages. She has taught for several master’s degrees in Medical Translation (UJI), in Translation and Interpretation Research (UJI), in Creative and Humanistic Translation (Universitat de València) and in Literary and Humanistic Translation (University of Málaga). She was also coordinator of the Master’s degree in Translation and Communication of the Shakespeare Foundation of Spain. Her critical works include Teatro y traducción (2008), among others. She has also coedited and translated Richard II, Coriolanus and The Comedy of Errors into Spanish for Cátedra ediciones.

Paula Saiz-Hontangas, Universitat Jaume I

Paula Saiz-Hontangas graduated in Translation and Interpreting at the Universitat Jaume I and took the Master’s Degree in Medical and Healthcare Translation at the same university. She is currently working on her doctorate on the comprehensibility of written information aimed at patients and is a member of the GENTT research group. Her areas of interest are specialised translation, clinical communication and popularisation of specialised knowledge.

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