Uncertainty in translation course : students of translation master of mascara university as case study

Abstract EN

The concept of uncertainty in translation studies is becoming one of the main recent tendencies.

It is a problematic that links between philosophy and cognitive studies.

Hence, the present study aims at exploring the cognitive processes of students of master when dealing with situational difficulties such as unfindable words, stylistic features, syntactic difficulties…it is a qualitative study that handles the problem of uncertainty from a didactic perspective.

The main hypotheses of this paper are “there are other methods to depict the uncertainty of students rather than the TAP method”, “it is extremely difficult to know in which cases students were uncertain”, and “the cognitive study of uncertainty is an, and consequently, an impossible one”.

For the purpose of this study, the research relies on two data tools; a questionnaire that has been addressed to teachers of translation in order to get the ins and the outs of this topic; and an in-class observation of students dealing with variables passages.

The paper closes with a set of results and recommendations.