This work discusses the translation solutions applied to the localization of video game titles in the Chinese market and how they are influenced by cultural, political, media, and consumer factors. It starts with an introductory contextualization of the unique features of the translation of video game titles in China through history, then examines the translation solutions adopted in the case of the most widely accepted versions of top-rated video games in the Chinese target market, revealing that literal, meaning-preserving approaches have become predominant over time, surpassing semantic-altering methods. Nevertheless, various types of modifications have been observed in the translation of video game titles due to linguistic and cultural differences. Even mistranslations are officially adopted as long as they have gained widespread recognition. In the future, video games imported into the Chinese market may receive a unified Chinese title for both distribution platforms and social media, prompting further research. URL: http://www.skase.sk/

This article presents the most common information-seeking problems encountered by translation students when translating a legal text. The study group consisted of students from the University of Silesia in Katowice who were asked to translate a complaint from English into Polish using all the sources (printed and electronic) they considered appropriate for the task. The research method used was a combination of observation and TAPs. The students were divided into pairs. One student observed the other and recorded their information-seeking behaviour, asking additional questions when necessary. The students’ information seeking behaviour was also documented using a screen recording tool. The aim was to find out how the students searched for information and what problems they encountered. Problems that emerged were related to: (1) defining information needs, (2) establishing searchable units, (3) lack of desired information in a source, (4) locating word clusters in sources, (5) incongruent terms, (6) multiple equivalents of a term in a dictionary entry, and (7) processing the information found. This study forms part of a larger research project: Detailed statistical data are presented in Sycz-Opoń (2019) and individual research styles in Sycz-Opoń (2021). URL: http://www.skase.sk/

This paper primarily centers on the psychological well-being of interpreters, with a specific focus on those working with refugees. Through a review of existing literature on interpreter’s mental health, the author identifies and explores the pressing mental health challenges encountered by interpreters in refugee contexts, as well as potential remedies. The ultimate goal is to advocate for the formulation of deliberate strategies aimed at fostering self-preservation of mental health among interpreters during their training. This, in turn, would empower interpreters to mitigate the adverse effects stemming from vicarious trauma. URL: http://www.skase.sk/

The popularity of inspirational quotes has grown significantly in recent years, particularly on social media and many social spaces. These quotes are known for their concise and uplifting messages, which offer individuals struggling with stress, tension, and depression a sense of motivation, assurance, and fulfillment. Despite their widespread use, limited research has been conducted on the effects of such sentences on translation trainees. To address this gap, the researchers in this quantitative study endeavored to scrutinize the impact of translating inspirational quotes on the emotional intelligence of senior English translation students of Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. For this purpose, a non-probability sample of 30 participants was randomly assigned to either an experimental or control group. The experimental group was exposed to translating inspirational quotes during six weekly fifteen-minute sessions, while the control group did not receive any intervention. Emotional intelligence levels were measured in both groups before and after the intervention through questionnaires. The findings demonstrated a significant positive effect of translating inspirational quotes on emotional intelligence. As a result, this study suggested that translating inspirational quotes has the potential to enhance emotional intelligence in translation trainees. URL: http://www.skase.sk/

With this second issue of Volume 17 of the SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation, we complete the first full volume under our editorship. We would like to take this opportunity to summarize some developments that have taken place and inform our readers of further specifications in our editorial policy. The SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation remains an Open Access journal without publication fees. When it was founded, there was no specific term for it, but nowadays such journals are qualified as diamond open access. With double-blind peer review, we aim to maintain a high academic standard without requiring readers’ or authors’ financial contributions... URL: http://www.skase.sk/

Jacqueline Guillemin-Flescher (2023), Linguistique contrastive : énonciation et activité langagière. Textes réunis sous la responsabilité éditoriale de Maryvonne Boisseau, Hélène Chuquet, Françoise Doro-Mégy. Rennes : Presses universitaires de Rennes. 436 pp. ISBN: 978-2-7535-8815-8, € 28,00. URL: http://www.skase.sk/

Telecollaborative translation activities, apart from allowing trainee translators to connect with people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds, may help students get used to working in virtual teams, receiving feedback from their peers, discussing translation strategies, and negotiating meaning to achieve the purpose of producing an acceptable translation. Furthermore, by using machine translation and post-editing, students may widen their translanguaging practices and acquire a higher level of intercultural communicative competence, which is a key ability translators should have when mediating between languages and cultures. The MTIC (Machine Translation and Intercultural Communication) course was designed by a Spanish and a British university with all such purposes in mind and as a professional development activity to support student transition to the global market. Based on major theoretical approaches to translator training and translation competence, this action research explains the reasons behind the design of the course, gives arguments for its potential benefits, and provides results regarding the effectiveness of this telecollaboration programme in terms of translation strategy acquisition and intercultural competence development. URL: http://www.skase.sk/

This article investigates the translation of religious expressions in the context of everyday interactions in Jordanian Arabic (JA) where they remarkably serve as discourse markers. Expressions of this nature are required to be pragmatically translated, given the fact that their semantic content is largely peripheral to the meaning of the accompanying utterance. Using relevance theory, this article provides evidence that these expressions have procedural meanings, as their intended meanings are significantly derived from the context. In order to corroborate this finding, the current study involved the participation of fifty graduate students majoring in Applied English at the University of Jordan. A translation task of fifty utterances and exchanges was used to collect the data. Five of the most popular religious expressions in JA were employed. Each of these expressions was used eight times in context-rich exchanges representing four different pragmatic functions and twice in de-contextualized utterances. The findings demonstrate that when these expressions are taken out of context, translations are mostly literal or dependent on the translator’s arbitrary guesses of the intended meaning. On the other hand, when context was given, translators avoided literal translations and produced renditions that matched the pragmatic functions which these expressions convey in the various contexts. URL: http://www.skase.sk/

SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation (ISSN 1336-7811) is published by the Slovak Association for the Study of English (SKASE) as one of its specialised journals in the Series. It is an English-language peer-reviewed on-line journal with free access, currently indexed in SCOPUS, ERIH, EBSCO Open Access Journals, and Lund University Libraries. URL: http://www.skase.sk/

Medical knowledge may be targeted at a multitude of audiences, including researchers, health professionals, patients and the general public. For many reasons, like in other spheres, machine translation has gained its way into medical and clinical settings. Medical translation is complicated not only because of terminological issues, but also because of a variety of genres and text types ranging from clinical practice to education, research and dissemination. Adequacy and fluency of the translated text are all equally crucial. The aim of this study is to analyze machine translation output of medical texts with a focus on terminology issues in English to Lithuanian language pair. The results of this study on human evaluation of machine translated output reveal that the performance of machine translation systems is insufficient, and the raw output requires careful review. While the accuracy of terminology translation and adequacy of longer segments may be regarded fairly acceptable for non-professional uses, the fluency of the raw translation mostly produces poor readability. Our research corroborates the findings of other studies that machine translation may be employed as a complementary tool only and cannot be relied on as the only source, but its significance for medical professionals and the broad public cannot be ignored.