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T&R5: Text types and research questions<\/p>\n
Text types:<\/p>\n
literary travel writing
\ntravel blogs
\ntravel essays
\ntravel reports
\ntravel stories
\ntravel websites
\ntourist audio-visual productions
\ntourist brochures
\ntourist guidebooks
\ntourist new media<\/p>\n
Research questions:<\/p>\n
To what extent are translation and travel connected?
\nIs the journey metaphor a good metaphor for translation?
\nIs the image of countries and peoples the same in original and translated texts?
\nIs the image of countries and peoples stereotypical?
\nDoes the image of countries and peoples stay the same or change over time?
\nWhat persuasive elements are used in tourist guides and brochures?
\nTo what extent are persuasive elements affected in translated guidebooks?
\nIn order to find information fast many travelers make use of statistical machine translation (Google Translate). What are the consequences of the use of machine translation?
\nIs city marketing language- and country-specific?
\nHow do we deal with the tension between the internationalization of tourist sites and the preservation of local flavour?
\nWho are the translators of tourist brochures, guidebooks and websites?
\nAre tourist guidebooks promoted on tourism websites?
\nIs the text-paratext relationship the same in the original travel literature as in the translated travel literature?
\nCan original intertextual references be maintained in translated travel literature?
\nCan original culturemes, allusions, ideological, axiological elements, implicit references be maintained in the translated literature travel?
\nHow do we translate the image of a country and a people when we translate into the language and culture that the source text describes?
\nWhat is the impact of mass society and the conso-translator on tourist translation practices?
\nWhat are the social constraints of tourist translation practices?
\nIn what ways does the multimodality of contemporary travel texts affect translation?<\/p>\n
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