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The information-seeking process and information management of professional translators have received little attention within library and information science. Therefore, this thesis aims to explore how non-literary translators’ work, especially in regard to their use of information and information technology, has changed since the 1990s. This is carried out by conducting a discourse analysis of texts from Facköversättaren¸ a magazine for professional translators working to and from Swedish. A sociomaterial theoretical framework is applied, combined with the discourse theory developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, which in this thesis serves both as a theoretical and methodological basis. The study finds that the discourse of professional translators has changed in several ways during the period in question. Firstly, to strengthen their identity, translators tend to contrast themselves to non-professional translators, other actors on the language service market, and machines. Secondly, technology is found to be described as a threat in the beginning of the period, while being described as a tool later on. Thirdly, the process of information-seeking is becoming increasingly incorporated within other parts of the translation process, with the help of CAT tools, and the translation process itself is being successively transformed by machine translation systems. This sociomaterial aspect of the entanglement of human and technical translation processes would benefit from further studies within library and information science. |
