<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>This paper purports to give an overview of translators as agents and their agency which should be viewed as a knowledge-based organisation in today’s globalized world. In our approach we will draw on Translation Studies (Baker and Saldanha, 2009), in general, and the situation of the profession in Romania with its recent developments, in particular (namely the proposal for a new controversial law which all legal translators and their agencies should obey). Last but not least, our aim is to account for translators as agents and translation agency in our country in the context of ethical practice and the increasingly stressful, demanding challenges of the job which is constantly frowned upon by the general public in the era of google translation.</p></abstract>

This paper purports to give an overview of translators as agents and their agency which should be viewed as a knowledge-based organisation in today’s globalized world. In our approach we will draw on Translation Studies (Baker and Saldanha, 2009), in general, and the situation of the profession in Romania with its recent developments, in particular (namely the proposal for a new controversial law which all legal translators and their agencies should obey). Last but not least, our aim is to account for translators as agents and translation agency in our country in the context of ethical practice and the increasingly stressful, demanding challenges of the job which is constantly frowned upon by the general public in the era of google translation.

Translation And Agency – A Knowledge-Based Organisation

“Al. I. Cuza” University, Iaşi, Romania

International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION

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This paper purports to give an overview of translators as agents and their agency which should be viewed as a knowledge-based organisation in today’s...

Translation And Agency – A Knowledge-Based Organisation

Published Online: Nov 24, 2015

Page range: 636 - 639

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/kbo-2015-0108

Keywords
TS, translation agency, agents in translating, ethical practice, translation in Romania

© 2015 Ana-Magdalena Petraru, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Translation And Agency – A Knowledge-Based Organisation

Published Online: Nov 24, 2015

Page range: 636 - 639

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/kbo-2015-0108

KeywordsTS, translation agency, agents in translating, ethical practice, translation in Romania

© 2015 Ana-Magdalena Petraru, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
TS, translation agency, agents in translating, ethical practice, translation in Romania