Guidelines for the Translation of Social Science Texts

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Guidelines for the Translation of Social Science Texts http://www.acls.org/sstp_guidelines.pdf  is the product of the Social  Science Translation Project (SSTP), which brought together a group of translators, editors, and social scientists to discuss problems arising from the translation of a variety of texts that employ social-scientific concepts. Organized by the ACLS with financial support from the Ford Foundation, the Social Science Translation Project (SSTP) met several times over the course of two years (2004-05). Its goal was to demonstrate the key role that translations play in the field and to promote communication in the social sciences across language boundaries by providing practical advice to people who commission, edit, and use translations of social science texts in their professional activities. To this end the guidelines are available in

Arabic
http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_arabic.pdf,
Chinese
http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_chinese.pdf,
English
http://www.acls.org/sstp_guidelines.pdf,
French
http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_french.pdf,
Japanese
http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_japan.pdf,
Russian
http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_rus.pdf,
Spanish
http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_spanish.pdf, and
Vietnamese
http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_vn.pdf.

Members of the SSTP regard the guidelines as a work in progress or, better, as an invitation to comment and further investigation. We encourage downloading and distributing the text widely, and we look forward to reader feedback. Please send comments to the SSTP co-chairs:
Michael Henry Heim, heim@humnet.ucla.edu, and Andrzej W. Tymowski, atymowski@acls.org.

• Arabic Translation of Guidelines
  http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_arabic.pdf .
  Translated from the Arabic by Mustafa Riad.
• Chinese Translation of Guidelines
  http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_chinese.pdf
  .Translated from the English by Ji Li, reviewed by Chuanyun Bao.
• French Translation of Guidelines
  http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_french.pdf .
  Translated from the English by Bruno Poncharal.
• Japanese Translation of Guidelines
  http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_japan.pdf.
  Translated from the English by Akiko Ueda.
• Russian Translation of Guidelines
  http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_rus.pdf .
  Translated from the English by Natalia Avtonomova.
• Spanish Translation of Guidelines
  http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_spanish.pdf .
  Translated from the English by Teresa Solana.
• Vietnamese Translation of Guidelines
  http://www.acls.org/sstp_guide_vn.pdf . Translated
  from the English by Hien Luong.

The guidelines are presented in .pdf format. You will need Adobe
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