Tecnologias de tradução: implicações éticas para a prática tradutória

Abstract

This paper examines the ethical implications for the contemporary practice of translation with the use of translation memory systems. While considering ethics, it puts forward an analysis of the extension of the translational responsibility in the light of thoughts and proposals concerning an ethical attitude by the translator. This analysis is brought to the work scenario of the contemporary translator, who employs technological tools, integrates work groups with specific task assignments and is advised to carry out the work so as to recover previous translation options and turn in his/her terminological production together with the translation. We conclude that this work configuration ends up dissipating the translator’s responsibility whereas it recovers the conception of translation as transposition of meaning between different languages.