Open AccessComputer-based collaborative revision as a virtual lab of translation genetics
Author(s) -
Giovanna Scocchera
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
linguistica antverpiensia new series - themes in translation studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2295-5739
DOI - 10.52034/lanstts.v14i0.347
Subject(s) - computer science , translation (biology) , field (mathematics) , process (computing) , object (grammar) , focus (optics) , modality (human–computer interaction) , human–computer interaction , artificial intelligence , genetics , biology , programming language , mathematics , physics , messenger rna , gene , pure mathematics , optics
Introducing revision as a key stage of any writing process, including translation, this paper aims at underlining its role in the genetics of translation. Other-revision, i.e. the activity performed by a reviser on someone else’s translation, will be the focus of this paper, whose overall objective is to show that when performed in a collaborative modality, revision may prove a miniature, virtual lab of translation genetics. With the aid of computer tools already available, and new ad-hoc solutions hopefully to be developed, all reviser-translator interplay in the form of text changes, suggestions and comments can be visually tracked, recorded and thus become an object of study. Besides being an invaluable didactic tool and a hoped-for professional practice, computer-based collaborative revision may prove a valid method for data elicitation and collection, and for experimental investigation in the field of translation genetics.