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T1 Research methods in public service interpreting and translation studies: epistemologies of knowledge and ignorance
T2 Métodos de investigación en la traducción y la interpretación en los servicios públicos: epistemologías del conocimiento y la ignorancia
A1 Monzó-Nebot, Esther
A1 Wallace, Melissa
K1 Research   methods
K1 Public   service   interpreting   and   translation
K1 Epistemology
K1 Epistemologies of ignorance
K1 Métodos de investigación
K1 Traducción e interpretación en los servicios públicos
K1 Epistemología
K1 Epistemologías de la ignorancia
K1 Filología
K1 Philology
AB How  disciplines  approach  their  objects  of  inquiry  is  a  result  of  their  epistemological traditions,  which  include decisions about  what  they choose  to examine  and  what  they  decide  to ignore. As an interdiscipline, Interpreting and Translation Studies (ITS) was born to overcome the limits  of discipline-specificapproaches  to  translation  and  interpreting,  andwhen observingcomplex real-life phenomena,examining issuesthrough an interdisciplinarylenscan revealthings thatapproaches from single disciplines on their own would miss. This feature article reviewshow ITS  hasshapedPublic  Service  Interpreting  and  Translation  (PSIT),focusing  specifically  on  the advantagesand vulnerabilities that its interdisciplinary nature yields as regards research methods.Three distinctive featuresand their impact on research methods are examined: (1) the complexity of  the  object  ofinquiry,  (2)  the  novelty  of  the  disciplinary  field that  aims  to  scrutinize  and  to explain  PSIT,  and  (3)  the  changes  that  the  social  sciences  in  general  have  undergone  and  are currently  undergoing,  openingupnew  opportunities  for  research  practices  and  methodological reflections. Contemplations ofthese features revealissues identified and the efforts undertaken to tackle  them  in  relation  tothe  internal  and  external  validity  of  research  studies  as  well  asunexplored strengths and roadblocks in the path towards achieving a critical mass of studies that can adequately represent the relevance of PSIT in contemporary societies.
PB FITISPos-UAH Research Group
SN 2341-3778
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/44591
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/44591
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 19-abr-2024