Authors and Corporations: | , |
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In: | Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 29, 2015, 2, p. 221-235 |
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SAGE Publications
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Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
Physical Description: | 221-235 |
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ISSN: |
1050-6519
1552-4574 |
DOI: | 10.1177/1050651914562472 |
published in: | Journal of Business and Technical Communication |
Language: | English |
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Collection: | SAGE Publications (CrossRef) |
<jats:p> This article provides a critical overview of the challenges that content management poses for technical communicators who work on multilingual projects. These issues include determining whether to translate or to localize, resolving the problems presented by the decontextualizing and repurposing of text, managing the complexities of the localization industry’s work practices and tools, and handling the linguistic idiosyncrasies of particular languages. The authors draw on their experience with content management and the translation–localization industry in seeking to problematize increasingly standardized practices that deserve further investigation. </jats:p> |