A Socio-technical-cultural System Perspective to Rethinking Translation Technology in Intercultural Communication

Mei Li, Chunfang Zhou, Lars Bo Henriksen

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Abstract

As technology has radically changed language translation in the age of globalization, the research on translation technology should not only benefit current research on translation of languages but also have a long-term positive impact on technology in the sociocultural context. The focuses of this paper are twofold. Firstly, it discusses how translation technology drives the changes in intercultural communication that bring both bright and dark sides. Secondly, it explores how translation technology’s involvement and interaction with human translator in practice of language translation from a socio-technical-cultural system perspective. Based on the discussion, this paper particularly addresses human translator’s collaboration with translation technology should be regarded as a cultural mediator helping to realize successful intercultural communication; and meanwhile, the human translator’ s subjectivity should be highlighted, and translation technology’s cultural design should be explored in order to improve usability that further brings benefits to the future cultural mediator.

Original languageEnglish
JournalCommunication & Language at Work - CLAW
Volume7
Issue number1
Pages (from-to)100-110
Number of pages11
ISSN2245-5744
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2020

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