At a Certain Stage, one has to Deliver : Why Professional Translation Masters’ Matter
Résumé
This paper starts by describing and deploring the persistent provincial nature not only of translation studies, but also of translation teaching, as opposed to a developing translation market that is to a very large extent globalized and changing fast. The author then attempts a description of the present state of this market, before proposing a brief historical outline of translation teaching, in order to show that, until recently (say, the early 1990s), this factor was of small importance and scale. However, things changed in the 1990s, and even more so with the Bologna process, to the point where the Western part of the EU has too many translation teaching programs and Eastern Europe too few. Professionalization was also not a universal factor in those programs. A major factor in correcting those imbalances has been the EMT project, and especially its set of competences (2009 and 2017), which occupy the last part of the paper.