Specialised translation and interpreting in the Spanish nuclear industry

El presente estudio tiene por objeto el trabajo del traductor e intérprete profesional en el ámbito de las centrales nucleares españolas. Se analizarán los campos del conocimiento relevantes para el traductor e intérprete en dicho ámbito, incluida la tecnología nuclear, disciplinas relacionadas y otras. Asimismo, se expondrán las técnicas de interpretación, géneros textuales y situaciones comunicativas habituales en este sector. Finalmente, se reflexionará sobre el papel del traductor e intérprete en entornos altamente especializados, sus repercusiones y los requisitos que debe cumplir para desempeñar correctamente su labor, así como las posibilidades de documentación en el ámbito nuclear y técnico en general.Our study focuses on the task of professional translators and interpreters working in the context of nuclear power plants in Spain. The fields of knowledge relevant to translators and interpreters in this sector will be discussed, including nuclear technology, related fields and other. Besides, the most frequent interpretation techniques, textual genres and communicative situations in this setting shall be analised. Finally, we will look at the role of translators and interpreters in highly specialized settings, the implications of their work and the requisites they must fulfil in order to carry out their professional work, as well as documentation sources in nuclear and technical settings in general

Technical translation as specialization: an engineer at work?

El área o campo temático en el que se va a especializar es una decisión que todo traductor debe tomar al iniciar su andadura profesional. La traducción técnica es una de las posibles opciones para aquellos traductores que hayan concluido su formación inicial. Asimismo, en un mercado cada vez más basado en la industria y la innovación, este campo proporciona excelentes oportunidades laborales para el traductor. En el presente trabajo deseamos exponer las vías por las que un graduado en Traducción e Interpretación puede optar para especializarse en el amplio mundo de la traducción técnica, en concreto para los idiomas inglés, alemán y español. Analizaremos los resultados de un cuestionario dirigido a traductores que ejercen su actividad profesional en este campo, a modo de ejemplos de la realidad laboral del mercado español.The area or field of specialization is a choice every translator should make at the beginning of their professional career. Technical translation is one of the available options for translators who have just finished their initial training. Furthermore, this field provides excellent working opportunities for translators in a market increasingly relying on industry and innovation. In the present communication, the different paths of specialization in this broad area available for a graduate in Translation and Interpreting are discussed. The proposed languages are English, German and Spanish. Besides, the results of a questionnaire filled by translators who work in this field will be analysed in order to provide some insight into the actual situation in the Spanish labour market

Fuzzy Decision-Support System for Safeguarding Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage

In the current world economic situation, the maintenance of built heritage has been limited due to a lack of funds and accurate tools for proper management and implementation of these actions. However, in specific local areas, the maintenance and conservation of historical and cultural heritage have become an investment opportunity. In this sense, in this study, a new tool is proposed, for the estimation of the functional service life of heritage buildings in a local region (city of Seville, South Spain). This tool is developed in Art-Risk research project and consists of a free software to evaluate decisions in regional policies, planning and management of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, considering physical, environmental, economic and social resources. This tool provides a ranking of priority of intervention among case studies belonging to a particular urban context. This information is particularly relevant for the stakeholders responsible for the management of maintenance plans in built heritage

La caligrafía árabe relatada por Rafik Schami: una propuesta de traducción alemán- español

El presente trabajo tiene por objeto la traducción y el comentario de un relato del autor sirio afincado en Alemania Rafik Schami. El relato, incluido a modo de epílogo de la novela Das Geheimnis des Kalligraphen, no ha sido publicado en español pese al interés de la temática que aborda, centrada en la caligrafía árabe y en la figura del célebre calígrafo Ben Muqla. En esta investigación se realizará una traducción del alemán al español y se revisarán los conceptos claves de los estilos y el lenguaje caligráfico comentados por Schami. Asimismo, las caligrafías en lengua árabe incluidas en el relato serán objeto de análisis en un estudio comparativo con el texto original y el texto meta. Con ello, pretendemos abordar las dificultades de la traducción de conceptos técnicos propios de una tercera lengua, ajena a la combinación en la que se realiza la labor traductora, desde una metodología de trabajo multidisciplinar. Un objetivo secundario de este trabajo es contribuir a la difusión de la obra de Schami en el ámbito español, especialmente en lo que se refiere a sus ideas sobre la lengua árabe y las reformas de su alfabeto.The purpose of this work is to translate and analyse a short story by Syrian author Rafik Schami, who lives in Germany and writes in German. This story, appended as an epilogue to the novel Das Geheimnis des Kalligraphen, has not been published in Spanish despite the interest of the topic: Arabic calligraphy and the figure of renowned calligrapher Ibn Muqla. The story titled Was ich schaffe, überdauert die Zeit has been translated from German into Spanish and the key concepts of calligraphic styles explained by Schami are reviewed. Furthermore, several calligraphed texts in Arabic included in the story are studied in a comparative analysis with the source and target texts. This work is an interdisciplinary approach to the difficulties of translating technical concepts in a third language other than the language combination of a particular translation. A secondary aim is to contribute to the dissemination of Schami’s works in Spain, especially as far as his thoughts on the reforms of the Arabic alphabet are concerned

Wine tourism and translation of web contents: analysis of Andalusian webpages translated into German

El presente trabajo se centra en la traducción al alemán de contenidos web relacionados con el enoturismo en la región de Andalucía. Se han seleccionado una serie de sitios web de promoción turística de las distintas provincias andaluzas, así como de bodegas, de cara a establecer su disponibilidad en otras lenguas. En el caso de las traducciones al alemán, se ha llevado a cabo un análisis de la corrección en el tratamiento de los textos y, especialmente, de los referentes culturales y la terminología vitivinícolas. Los resultados arrojan un panorama heterogéneo, en el que se ha detectado que la corrección de los textos es susceptible de mejora. Con este estudio, esperamos contribuir a una mejor promoción de los productos enoturísticos andaluces.This work focuses on the translation into German of web contents related to wine tourism in the region of Andalusia. A number of web sites for the promotion of tourism in the different Andalusian provinces were selected, as well as a series of web pages of Andalusian bodegas, in order to establish their availability in foreign languages. In the case of German translations, an analysis has been carried out as to the correctness of the texts and especially the treatment given to cultural references and terminology related to wine. The results show a heterogeneous landscape, with room for improvement regarding the accuracy and correctness of the texts. This study aim s to improve the promotion of Andalusian wine tourism products

Translation, Mediation and Accessibility for Linguistic Minorities

Linguistic minorities are everywhere, and they are diverse. In this context, linguistic mediation activities – whether translation or interpreting – are key to the social inclusion of any kind of linguistic minority. In most societies autochthonous linguistic minorities coexist with foreignspeaking minorities and people with (or without) disabilities who rely linguistically or medially adapted on texts to access information. The present volume draws on this broad understanding of the concept of linguistic minorities to explore some of the newest developments in the field of translation studies and linguistics. The articles are structured around three main axes: • accessibility of content, especially audiovisual translation • intralingual translation, including initiatives regarding plain language, easy-to-read and easy language • mediation for minorities in a broader sense and language ideologies

A functional RNase P protein subunit of bacterial origin in some eukaryotes

RNase P catalyzes 5′-maturation of tRNAs. While bacterial RNase P comprises an RNA catalyst and a protein cofactor, the eukaryotic (nuclear) variant contains an RNA and up to ten proteins, all unrelated to the bacterial protein. Unexpectedly, a nuclear-encoded bacterial RNase P protein (RPP) homolog is found in several prasinophyte algae including Ostreococcus tauri. We demonstrate that recombinant O. tauri RPP can functionally reconstitute with bacterial RNase P RNAs (RPRs) but not with O. tauri organellar RPRs, despite the latter’s presumed bacterial origins. We also show that O. tauri PRORP, a homolog of Arabidopsis PRORP-1, displays tRNA 5′-processing activity in vitro. We discuss the implications of the striking diversity of RNase P in O. tauri, the smallest known free-living eukaryote.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación European Regional Fund BFU2007-60651Junta de Andalucía P06-CVI-01692National Science Foundation MCB-0238233 MCB-0843543European Union ASSEMBLE 22779