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Specialised Translation and Translation Services Market: A View from Apulia (Angelo Monaco)
My paper reports on the partial results of an investigation into the state of affairs of the market of specialised translation services in Apulia (south-east Italy). In the first part of my paper, I will illustrate the trends of a survey of the translation market. The survey takes into account the type of clients, the most in-demand languages, the main linguistic domains, and the use of the CAT tools. In the second part, instead, I will focus on the data of two needs analysis questionnaires addressed to the first-year students of the Master’s Degree in “Specialised Translation” at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”. The questionnaires include personal information, skills, motivation, and expectations, thus providing a way to map the future translators’ needs. Finally, I will discuss and relate the trends of the market survey and the data of the needs analysis questionnaires in order to propose a didactic protocol where market requests and formative needs may converge.
