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Concept
Language industry
Summary
The language industry is the sector of activity dedicated to facilitating multilingual communication, both oral and written. According to the European Commission's Directorate-General of Translation, the language industry comprises following activities: translation, interpreting, subtitling, dubbing, software and website globalisation, language technology tools development, international conference organisation, language teaching and linguistic consultancy.
According to the Canadian Language Industry Association, this sector comprises translation (as seen in interpreting, subtitling and localisation), language training and language technologies.
The European Language Industry Association limits the sector to translation, localisation, internationalisation and globalisation.
An older, perhaps outdated view confines the language industry to computerised language processing and places it within the information technology industry.
An emerging view expands this sector to include editing for authors who write in a second language, especially English, for international communication.
The scope of services in the industry includes:
Translation
Editing for authors: author editing
Editing for publishers, e.g. copy editing, proofreading (including computer-assisted reviewing), developmental editing
Language interpretation
Language education
Computer-assisted translation tools development
Terminology extraction
Language localisation
Software localisation
Machine translation
The persons who facilitate multilingual communication by offering individualized services—translation, interpreting, editing or language teaching—are called language professionals.
Translation (and interpretation) as actcivities, have existed since mankind started developing trade. That is to say that the origins of language industry are older than those of written language.
The communication industry has developed rapidly following availability of the internet. Achievements of the industry include the ability to quickly translate long texts into many languages.
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