Vol 10, No 2 (2018)

Translation & Interpreting

Special issue: Translation of questionnaires in cross-national and cross-cultural research

Guest editors: Dorothee Behr and Mandy Sha

Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction: Translation of questionnaires in cross-national and cross-cultural research
Dorothée Behr, Mandy Sha
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1-4

Articles

Translating questionnaires for cross-national surveys: A description of a genre and its particularities based on the ISO 17100 categorization of translator competences
Dorothée Behr
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5-20
Translation of country-specific programs and survey error: Measuring the education level of immigrants
Patricia Goerman, Leticia Fernandez, Rosanna Quiroz
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21-33
Questionnaire translation in the European Company Survey: Conditions conducive to the effective implementation of a TRAPD-based approach
Maurizio Curtarelli, Gijs van Houten
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34-54
The translator’s perspective on translation quality control processes for international large-scale assessment studies
Britta Upsing, Marc Rittberger
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55-72
Probing for sensitivity in translated survey questions: Differences in respondent feedback across cognitive probe types
Zeina Nazih Mneimneh, Kristen Cibelli Hibben, Lisa Bilal, Sanaa Hyder, Mona Shahab, Abdulrahman Binmuammar, Yasmin Altwaijri
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73-88
Back translation as a documentation tool
Jiyoung Son
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89-100
Using video technology to engage deaf sign language users in survey research: An example from the Insign project
Jemina Napier, Katherine Lloyd, Robert Skinner, Graham H Turner, Mark Wheatley
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101-121
English to Spanish translated medical forms: A descriptive genre-based corpus study
Patricia Gonzalez Darriba
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122-141
Translation and visual cues: Towards creating a road map for limited English speakers to access translated Internet surveys in the United States
Mandy Sha, Y. Patrick Hsieh, Patricia L. Goerman
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142-158