#4065. How committed are you to becoming a translator? Defining translator identity statuses

September 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Research on translator identity is scarce in the translation literature. This study explores translator identity in the context of translator education. Concretely, the paper examines translation students’ fluctuation in their translator identity statuses, i.e. the degree of commitment to their translator identity, over the course of one year. To do this, twelve participants from two different translator programmes engaged in three semi-structured interview rounds during the fourth year of their studies. Thirty-six interviews were transcribed and annotated using the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). The emerging themes suggest a crisis-reflection-reconnection process leading to commitment development. The participants’ experiential accounts enabled the definition of identity statuses for the translator education setting: achievers’ commitment remained constant during the year, while conservers and seekers suffered a loss of commitment triggered by external sources, particularly from supra-contextual crises.
Keywords:
commitment; identity status; translator education; Translator identity

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