Los estudios sobre marcadores discursivos son cada vez más numerosos y no han dejado de suscitar el interés de la comunidad científica a lo largo de los años. En el presente artículo proponemos una investigación interdisciplinar que abarca el análisis funcional de una selección de marcadores discursivos en diálogos ficticios en español y de sus correspondencias en las traducciones en lengua alemana. Así pues, nos encontramos en el marco de los estudios pragmático-descriptivos y contrastivos, es decir, por un lado, pretendemos ofrecer una descripción minuciosa de las funciones y posiciones discursivas de los marcadores oye, me oyes y oye tú y, por otro, identificar las traducciones y, con ello, correspondencias prototípicas en lengua alemana. Este estudio se presenta como una aportación innovadora, puesto que son pocos los estudios de marcadores en el marco de la oralidad ficticia, sobre todo, desde una perspectiva contrastiva con el par de lenguas español-alemán. Esperamos que nuestra aportación sea de ayuda para estudiantes, lingüistas, profesores de lengua, traductores y, en definitiva, para todas aquellas personas que trabajan a diario con la lengua.
In a context of an ever-increasing number of applications for international protection, translation and interpreting play a crucial role in the integration of displaced persons into the host society and in safeguarding their most basic rights. Legislation enshrines the right to translation and interpreting in the field of international protection but does not establish training or professional requirements for the provision of these services. This leads to the fact that, more often than not, those who carry out these interpreting tasks have no prior training or professional qualification in interpreting, which in turn undermines the quality of the service provided and subsequently brings clear disadvantages for end-users. This is even more conspicuous in the case of the so-called languages of lesser diffusion or minority languages, for which there are no university training programmes in place but for which there is a very high demand, sometimes because of specific humanitarian crises. This paper presents a competence profile which encompasses the fundamental skills, abilities and knowledge that an interpreter working in the field of international protection must have, broken down into competence areas, with the aim that this competence model can, in turn, help to establish learning objectives in the design of crash courses for non-professional interpreters.
Studies on discourse markers have been steadily increasing, and the interest in their scientific field has not waned over the years. This article proposes an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the functional analysis of selected discourse markers in fictional dialogues in Spanish and German, together with their equivalents in official translations. Accordingly, this study is situated within the framework of pragmatic-descriptive and translation studies. First, we attempt to offer a detailed description of the functions and discursive positions of the marker oye and its variants. Secondly, we seek to identify their translations and, thus, their prototypical bidirectional equivalents. As a basis for our research, we have analysed examples of oye in its function as a discourse marker based on occurrences identified in the Parallel Corpus German/ Spanish(PaGeS). Subsequently, our objective was to determine whether and in what way this marker had been rendered into German. This study is presented as an innovative contribution, since there are few studies of discourse markers in the context of the represented orality in written literary discourse, above all in terms of translation regarding the language pair Spanish-German. This contribution is expected to benefit students, linguists, language teachers, translators, and all those who work with the language daily.
Spain is a major tourist destination. Thanks to its historical and cultural heritage, combined with its traditions, prestigious festivities, rich cuisine, climate and affordable standard of living, among many other attractions, it is a recurring destination for millions of international tourists, including those from France. For this reason, tourism translation represents one of the specialities with the highest volume of work. However, this speciality is often criticised for the low quality of its texts. But what do we mean by quality? In this study, we will try to find out what factors are considered necessary to assess whether the translation into French of a tourism text has reached the expected quality. We will deal with quality from a normative point of view, i.e. from the theoretical approaches of various researchers, as well as from translation agencies in France and Spain. All this with the aim of drawing up a table (by way of a proposal-guide) with the parameters that could be followed to identify a quality tourism translation, and which could be applied in the translation classroom. Finally, we will present a practical case study in which we will analyse the translation into French of information on Holy Week provided by the tourist office of a locality.
This article presents a model of interpreting competence within the context of interpreter training in Mexico. Based on a documentary analysis of specialized literature, the study reviews both classic and contemporary models (including those developed by Seleskovitch & Lederer, P & ouml;chhacker, Gile, Kalina, and Albl-Mikasa) and identifies their main contributions as well as their limitations regarding the linguistic, cognitive, and professional skills required of interpreters. Emphasis is placed on the need to draw a clear conceptual distinction between translation and interpreting, underscoring the immediate, time-bound, and psycholinguistic nature of the interpreting process. The article acknowledges that, in Mexico, translator training has received greater institutional and academic attention, whereas interpreter training lacks a systematic framework capable of guiding the development of discipline-specific competencies. In response to this gap, the article proposes a model of interpreting competence adapted to the Mexican context. The model integrates a set of interrelated subcompetences-linguistic, cultural, thematic, textual, strategic, and professional-that can be fostered and assessed in the classroom through controlled practice activities designed to address each subcompetence. The proposed model is conceived as a dynamic point of reference -open to revision- which seeks to strengthen professional interpreter training in Mexico while simultaneously promoting the consolidation of interpreting studies in the country.
