Hubscher-Davidson, S 2006, Using TAPS to analyze creativity in translation , in: Fifth Portsmouth Translation Conference: Translation and Creativity: how creative is the translator or interpreter?, 2005, University of Portsmouth.

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Abstract

This article aims to investigate the influence of personalities on translator behaviour and discover links between attitudes, performance and creativity in the target text. The fieldwork consists of a translation test from French into English which is administered to twenty postgraduate translation students, and in which they verbalise their thought processes and explain their choices, thereby expressing certain revealing attitudes and behaviours. The experiments are analysed with different methods, and correlations are made between results found which give credence to the idea that translators’ personality characteristics (which are reflected in their attitude towards their work) influence, and are apparent in, their performances. Indeed, students’ different qualities (resourcefulness, originality, creativity…) are clearly displayed in varying degrees in the experiment and help create patterns in the target texts.

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