大众文化语境下众包译者动机研究

Research on the Motivation of Crowdsourcing Translators in the Context of Mass Culture

对目前国内最大的众包翻译平台“译言网”的译者的身份特征和翻译动机展开了调研,结果发现:众包译者身份呈现多样性特征,其中非职业译者占据了很大的比重;职业译者和非职业译者在翻译内在动机和外在动机上存在很大的差异性,但都以传播中华文化为主要的外在动因。

This paper conducts a survey about the identity characteristics of crowdsourcing translators and their motivation of translation on yeeyan.com, the largest crowdsourcing translation platform in China. The survey results show that the identity of crowdsourced translators is characterized by diversity, among which non-professional translators account for a large proportion, and there are great differences between professional translators and non-professional translators in their intrinsic and extrinsic translation motivation, but both taking the dissemination of Chinese culture as the main external motivation force.