The use of machine translation as a multilingual communication strategy : The case of Ukrainian war refugees in Czechia
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F25%3A00142442" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/25:00142442 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.24047.aga" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.24047.aga</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ts.24047.aga" target="_blank" >10.1075/ts.24047.aga</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The use of machine translation as a multilingual communication strategy : The case of Ukrainian war refugees in Czechia
Original language description
This exploratory study investigates the use of online translation tools by Ukrainian war refugees in Czechia as a key multilingual communication strategy during their initial months of displacement, particularly in the absence of interpreters. The study aims to identify conceptual lenses that can guide further research on this strategy within translation studies. We explore the constitutive factors shaping communication mediated by machine translation (MT), the perceived benefits and drawbacks of MT use, and the contexts in which MT is deliberately avoided. Our findings suggest that MT use by displaced persons can be examined through concepts such as translational agency, power, national identity, and translational assimilation and accommodation. Practical implications include integrating MT tools into refugee language education, organizing MT literacy trainings for displaced persons and aid providers, and developing guidelines supporting multilingual communication in migration crises as part of state translation policy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60202 - Specific languages
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
TRANSLATION SPACES
ISSN
2211-3711
e-ISSN
2211-372X
Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
331-354
UT code for WoS article
001601351200001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105023873980