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Methodological Concepts of Military Translation/Interpreting Theory

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Abstract
This article establishes a theoretical framework for military translation/interpreting as a specialized branch of translation studies. The research methodology utilizes abstraction, thought experiments, and definitional analysis to systematize specialized concepts and construct theoretical models. Grounded in over thirty years of experience at the Department of Military Translation/Interpreting of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the study analyzes the defining academic features of military translation/interpreting and categorizes its primary, specialized, and supplementary functional-pragmatic types. The research formally articulates the metalinguistic units of the conceptual framework, including the precise parameters of a "military text" and the structural components of "linguistic support for military forces." Furthermore, the paper delineates the comprehensive competency matrix of a military translator/interpreter, synthesizing military, philological, and social components. The findings provide an academic substantiation for professional standards and outline prospective research directions, including the integration of artificial intelligence and advanced pedagogical methodologies for military translation/interpreting.
Keywords: 
translation studies
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military translation/interpreting
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military translation/interpreting theory
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military translator/interpreter
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linguistic support for military forces
Subject: 
Social Sciences  -   Language and Linguistics

1. Introduction

“The development of various types of written specialized translation and oral specialized interpreting is a hallmark of modern Ukraine, one that it did not possess in the recent past” [1] (p. 66). Military translators/interpreters facilitate communication between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and foreign partners, participate in international exercises and negotiations, and contribute to the drafting of internal documents aimed at transitioning the Ukrainian military to NATO standards. Specialized higher education institutions have developed educational and methodological support for training military translators/interpreters at both the bachelor's and master's degree levels, published textbooks on military translation/interpreting as well as bilingual and multilingual dictionaries of military terminology, and conducted academic research into this type of specialized translation/interpreting [1] (p. 66). The purpose of this article is to formulate the methodological concepts of military translation/interpreting theory — an abstract system within translation studies that possesses its own object, subject matter, content, structure, components, and synergistic links with translation studies, linguistics, military science, warfare, and other related disciplines.

2. Materials and Methods

The research materials comprised monographs, dissertations, academic articles, textbooks, instructional manuals, specialized professional and encyclopedic publications, reference books, dictionaries, glossaries, and other reference sources addressing the theoretical issues of military translation/interpreting. The author employed the following research methods:
  • abstraction, concretization, idealization, thought experiments, axiomatization, extrapolation, and interpolation to construct abstract theoretical constructs of military translation/interpreting theory;
  • structural, systemic, and component analysis, synthesis, comparison, analogy, and typology to study the composition, elements, and relationships among the components of military translation/interpreting theory;
  • definitional analysis, generalization, and concretization to construct verbal models, as well as to refine and systematize the specialized concepts, terms, and definitions that constitute its conceptual framework.

3. Results

These results are based on more than thirty years of experience at the Department of Military Translation/Interpreting of the Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in educating and training military translators/interpreters for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other agencies of the national security and defense sector.
At the first stage, we analyzed academic and methodological works on military translation/interpreting covering the period from the second half of the 20th century to 2017 to determine:
  • how the concept of “military translation/interpreting” is represented in academic discourse;
  • to what extent the defining theoretical features of military translation/interpreting are comprehensively formalized and articulated, allowing military translation/interpreting to be viewed not merely as a specific type of practical cross-cultural mediating activity of a military translator/interpreter, but primarily as an object of academic inquiry;
  • how the published works correlate with the contemporary understanding of the theoretical issues of military translation/interpreting in Ukraine and abroad;
  • whether the personal knowledge and practical experience of researchers evolve into clearly formulated theoretical concepts of military translation/interpreting, which are initially formalized during academic communication and subsequently acquire the complete deductive-systematic form of a specialized branch of translation studies.
A comprehensive search of open sources in the field of translation studies indicated a notable absence of degree-qualifying academic papers (dissertations, monographs), as well as academic articles and university textbooks on military translation/interpreting theory in the European, American, Asian, and African schools of translation studies. Certain aspects of military translation/interpreting theory, associated with the professional activities of military translators/interpreters, are partially, indirectly, or implicitly represented in global interdisciplinary studies (geopolitical, historiographical, linguo-cultural, sociolinguistic, etc.). The methodology of military translation/interpreting theory is manifested in its concepts, terms, definitions, abstract judgments, hypotheses, generalized conclusions, empirical data, and academic and theoretical models, all of which are formalized, articulated, and validated by the practice of linguistic support for military forces.

3.1. Fundamental Concepts of Military Translation/Interpreting Theory

Military translation/interpreting is a specialized type of mediated, cross-cultural, two-way, and bilingual communication involving the military translator/interpreter as its actor and military texts as its object. It is carried out under both standard and extreme conditions of military service to provide translation/interpreting in the military-political, military-technical, and military-specialized domains of the armed forces' activities. The three main functional-pragmatic types of military translation/interpreting are: military-political, military-technical, and military-specialized translation/interpreting.
A military translator/interpreter is the principal actor in linguistic support for military forces. This professional is viewed as an officer, a well-educated and competent linguistic mediator, possessing cross-cultural communicative (bilingual, psycholinguistic, verbal-cognitive) and other specialized competencies developed through higher education to execute the functions and tasks of linguistic support for military forces under standard and extreme conditions of military service.
A military text is a written or oral coherent semantic array of linguistic units, united by logico-syntactic connections, communicative function, thematic focus, compositional macrostructure, and a stylistic dominant centered around the concepts of “war”, “the military”, and “armament”. In military translation/interpreting theory, we identify three main functional-pragmatic types of military texts (military-political, military-technical, and military-specialized) and three genre-stylistic types of military texts (military-academic, military-journalistic, and military memoirs).
Military translation/interpreting theory is a specialized branch of translation studies encompassing a systematized (generalized, structured, and organized) body of methodological approaches, theoretical principles, academic and scientific facts, general hypotheses, working assumptions, abstract ideas, and logical judgments. This framework reveals the specificity of translation/interpreting within the armed forces by utilizing terminologically defined and ordered units of its own conceptual framework.
The object of military translation/interpreting theory is the process and the result of translation/interpreting in the armed forces, which forms the core of linguistic support for military forces.
The academic mission (and methodological essence) of military translation/interpreting theory is fundamentally aimed at the creation of theoretical models for translation/interpreting in the armed forces.
The conceptual framework of military translation/interpreting theory is a group of metalinguistic units that reveal the specificity of the military translator/interpreter’s professional functions and describe the object — translation/interpreting in the armed forces — in specialized categories, notions, concepts, constructs, terms, and definitions.
The metalinguistic units of the conceptual framework of military translation/interpreting theory are compact verbal models in the form of a word or phrase. These models serve as independent means of cognitive activity, allowing scholars to operate with idealized objects, and construct theoretical schemes of real processes in the field of military translation/interpreting for a deeper and more nuanced academic and practical understanding.
We designate four types of metalinguistic units within this conceptual framework:
  • general academic (philosophical and methodological);
  • linguistic;
  • translation studies;
  • specialized.
The specialized metalinguistic units of the conceptual framework of military translation/interpreting theory are categories, notions, concepts, constructs, and terms that denote the specificity of the military translator/interpreter’s activities, functions and duties. These include concepts such as “military translation/interpreting”, “military translator/interpreter”, “linguistic support for military forces”, “military text”, “translation/interpreting of radio communications”, “airborne and onboard interpreting”, “interrogation of prisoners of war”, etc.
Linguistic support for military forces is an integrated system of specialized measures and tasks of an applied and fundamental nature within the military-political, military-technical, and military-specialized domains of the armed forces. It is carried out to implement the communicative-mediating, military-regional studies, military-terminological, linguo-pedagogical, and linguo-research activities, which require a military-professional level of philological bilingual competence from its actors. Consequently, linguistic support for the Ukrainian Armed Forces comprises five components:
  • translation/interpreting in the armed forces;
  • military-regional studies activities;
  • military-terminological activities;
  • linguo-pedagogical activities;
  • linguo-research activities.
Translation/interpreting in the armed forces forms the core of linguistic support for military forces. It is designated as a type of cross-cultural interlingual mediation consisting of the military translator/interpreter's execution of written translation and oral interpreting (consecutive and simultaneous), adapted transcoding (rendering), abstracting, annotating, and editing of military texts. We define primary, specialized, and supplementary types of translation/interpreting in the armed forces.
The primary types of translation/interpreting in the armed forces are written translation and oral interpreting (consecutive and simultaneous) of military-political, military-technical, and military-specialized texts.
The specialized types of translation/interpreting in the armed forces currently include:
  • translation/interpreting of radio communications;
  • airborne and onboard interpreting;
  • interrogation of prisoners of war;
  • questioning of local residents;
  • escorting of truce envoys.
The supplementary types of translation/interpreting in the armed forces encompass the rendering, abstracting, annotating, and editing of military texts.
The military translator/interpreter’s service functions encompass typical military-specialized tasks, categorized by professional domain, that are routinely assigned to these professionals. Within military translation/interpreting theory, we identify primary and auxiliary service functions. The primary service functions include communicative-mediating (cross-cultural), military-regional studies (informational-analytical), military-terminological (normative-codifying), linguo-pedagogical (didactic-diagnostic), and linguo-research (academic/scientific) activities. The military translator/interpreter’s auxiliary service functions consist of combat training/instructional and military-administrative duties.
The professional qualification of a military translator/interpreter is a standardized combination of acquired competencies designed to solve complex tasks within the military and humanities disciplines, specifically in translation/interpreting, linguistics, and military management. In Ukraine, for example, this qualification must be recognized by the Ministry of Defense and certified by a higher education diploma that details the academic degree, specialty, specialization, and educational program.
The educational qualification of a military translator/interpreter is the result of successfully completed studies at the first (bachelor's) and/or second (master's) levels of higher education in the specialty of “Philology” and the specializations of “Military Translation/Interpreting” and “Linguistic Support for Military Forces,” described in terms of learning outcomes and competencies.
The competence of a military translator/interpreter is a dynamic combination of linguistic, translation studies, linguo-cultural, military-professional, military-humanitarian, and military-specialized knowledge, skills, abilities, ways of thinking, views, values, and other personal qualities. Certified at the level of completed higher education, this competence is characterized by the professional's ability and readiness to execute the tasks of linguistic support for military forces, alongside other service functions and duties, under standard and extreme conditions of military service. It represents a synthesis of the competencies of an officer and those of a civilian translator/interpreter.
The competency matrix of a military translator/interpreter is a complex hierarchical structure, comprising system-forming ordering parameters:
  • levels (integral level; general level; specialized level);
  • components (military component; philological/linguistic component; social component);
  • types (language type; speech type; translation/interpreting type; military-professional type; military-humanitarian type, etc.);
  • subtypes (grammatical subtype; lexical subtype; stylistic subtype; punctuation subtype; tactical subtype; technical subtype; topographic subtype; subtype competencies in listening, reading, speaking, and writing, etc.);
  • elements (reading tactical signs; using shorthand elements; transmitting messages using the phonetic alphabet; deciphering abbreviations; organizing the daily activities of a unit, etc.).
The research methodology of military translation/interpreting is defined as the rational-reflexive cognitive activities of a competent researcher, carried out in the field of military translation/interpreting theory using theoretical, empirical, and specialized research methods.

3.2. Tasks of Military Translation/Interpreting Theory

The essential tasks of military translation/interpreting theory at the current stage of its development include:
  • enhancing, upgrading, and refining the methodology of military translation/interpreting;
  • providing a comprehensive methodological description of the three main functional-pragmatic types of military translation/interpreting (military-political, military-technical, and military-specialized);
  • enhancing the typology of military texts;
  • studying the specialized genres of military translation/interpreting, as well as identifying and systematizing the genre and stylistic parameters of military texts;
  • researching the specialized types of translation/interpreting in the armed forces: translation/interpreting of radio communications; airborne and onboard interpreting; interrogation of prisoners of war; questioning of local residents; and escorting of truce envoys;
  • studying the psycholinguistic aspects of the professional activities and duties of a military translator/interpreter;
  • studying the specificity of military translation/interpreting in field and combat conditions;
  • studying the lexico-semantic issues of military translation/interpreting;
  • studying the morphological and syntactic issues of military translation/interpreting;
  • researching and substantiating the military-regional studies (informational-analytical) activities of a military translator/interpreter;
  • researching and substantiating the military-terminological (normative-codifying) activities of a military translator/interpreter;
  • creating academic and theoretical models for the components of military translation/interpreting theory (e.g., a model of the operational translation-interpretive activity of a military translator/interpreter; a model of professional behavior and culture; and a model of the content and structure of specialized competencies);
  • normalizing and standardizing the specialized units of the conceptual framework of military translation/interpreting theory;
  • providing a methodological basis and academic substantiation for the professional standard of a military translator/interpreter.

4. Discussion

4.1. General Remarks

The author presented his views on certain aspects of military translation/interpreting methodology in his earlier English publications [2,3,4,5,6].
As a specialized branch of translation studies, military translation/interpreting theory “should meet the established methodological criteria for all plausible and scholarly acceptable body of principles, offered to explain the specificity of intercultural communications between the military” [2] (p. 44).
The terminological definitions of military translation/interpreting concepts “ought to explain the ontological essence of the military translation specificity, characteristic features and qualities, as well as ensure ample perception and unambiguous understanding of an appropriate concept or category. They should logically and comprehensively describe military translation’s concepts by vocational terms from the translation studies’ domain, be systematic, consistent, complete, and optimally concise” [2] (p. 45).

4.2. Evolution of the Military Translation/Interpreting Studies in Ukraine

Following Ukraine’s independence, the field of military translation/interpreting emerged as a novel domain within Ukrainian translation studies, since “in the Soviet Union there was not, nor could there be, any written military translation or oral military interpreting in the Ukrainian language. It had to be built virtually from scratch, because the modest experience that emerged during the brief existence of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1921) had no chance of being consolidated in historical memory and was practically forgotten” [1] (pp. 65–66).
Beginning in 2002, Balabin [7], Matiusha [8], Bilan [9], Yanchuk [10], Dzis [11], Yundina [12], and Honcharuk [13] analyzed specific theoretical aspects of military translation/interpreting in their PhD dissertations, and Balabin and Bilan published scholarly monographs [14,15].
Nevertheless, by the end of 2017, the methodology of military translation/interpreting remained conceptually underdeveloped, as it was primarily examined through applied, linguistic, and didactic lenses focused on educating and training military translators/interpreters, compiling textbooks and military dictionaries, and developing pedagogical recommendations. Furthermore, access to the field of military translation/interpreting was—and remains—restricted for civilian researchers due to formal security procedures.
In 2018, Balabin published a monograph on the theoretical foundations of military translation/interpreting in Ukraine [16], “where he provided a definition of this type of specialized translation/interpreting, described its terminological system, functions and sub-types, its place within the system of linguistic support for military forces, outlined tasks for the professional training of military translators/interpreters” [1] (p. 73).
A review of academic works, theoretical concepts, and academic-methodological publications on military translation/interpreting spanning the period from 1964 to 2017 can be found in this monograph [16] (pp. 28–68).
The fundamental concepts of military translation/interpreting theory formed the core of the Ukrainian military standard for linguistic support for military forces [17], which was developed under the author’s guidance and officially implemented in December 2018.
In 2020, Balabin defended his doctoral (DSc) dissertation on military translation theory [18], which was grounded in the extensive experience (1993–2017) of the Department of Military Translation/Interpreting at the Military Institute of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in educating and training military translators/interpreters.
In 2021, Nikiforova defended her PhD dissertation on the lexico-semantic, genre, and stylistic features of military-political translation [19]. By analyzing English translations of key Ukrainian military-political documents (the National Security Strategy, Military Doctrine, Strategic Defense Bulletins, and White Books), she identified specific theoretical concepts of military-political translation as a functional-pragmatic type of military translation/interpreting. Nikiforova presented a classification of military-political texts into genre groups, formulated definitions for the specialized terms “military-political translation” and “military-political text”, and proposed a forward-looking functional model for military-political translation/interpreting [19] (p. 72).
Currently, “the scholars' interest in the field of military translation/interpreting theory and practice remains consistently high” [20] (p. 33), [21,22,23,24,25,26].

4.3. Term/Concept "Military Translation/Interpreting"

The concept of military translation/interpreting “belongs to the headmost units of the military translation theory’s conceptual construct that require proper clarification and definition” [2] (p. 45).
We use two definitions of military translation/interpreting, “bearing in mind that for scientific, educational, methodological and practical purposes it is preferably desirable to have two types of definitions — a short (concise) definition and a long (expanded) one” [2] (p. 45).
The concise definition demonstrates only the predominant features of military translation/interpreting, thus differentiating it from other types. It easily meets the requirements of rational and operational brevity, an essential prerequisite for terminological definitions:
  • military translation/interpreting — a special type of mediated intercultural communication, carried out within linguistic support for military forces.
The expanded definition explicates additional indispensable features of military translation/interpreting, presenting it as a complex system with integral structural elements — type, object, actor, domain, conditions, and the actor’s role and functions:
  • military translation/interpreting— a special type of mediated, cross-cultural, two-way, and bilingual communication involving a military translator/interpreter as its actor and military texts as its object, that is carried out under both ordinary and extreme conditions of military service to provide translation/interpreting in the military-political, military-technical, and military-specialized domains of the armed forces' activities.

4.4. Attributes of "Military Translation/Interpreting"

The concept of military translation/interpreting can be adequately explained and described by the following primary (mandatory) functional-pragmatic attributes or features, which are permanent in nature:
  • Type of translation/interpreting: specialized translation/interpreting.
  • Social domain of translation/interpreting: translation/interpreting in the armed forces — “the combined military, naval, and air forces of a nation” [27].
  • Specialized domain of translation/interpreting: linguistic support for military forces.
  • Primary function of translation/interpreting: cross-cultural communicative-mediating activities in the form of interpreting (consecutive and simultaneous) and translation (translation for internal use; translation for publication in open sources; translation for signing international agreements), adapted transcoding (rendering), editing, abstracting, and annotating of military texts.
  • Translation/interpreting type by speech activity: oral (interpreting carried out with the simultaneous use of complex speech skills of listening, shorthand elements, and speaking) and written (translation carried out with the simultaneous use of complex speech skills of reading and writing).
  • Functional-pragmatic types: military-political; military-technical; military-specialized.
  • Specialized actor: military translator/interpreter.
  • Specific conditions of professional activity: the execution of translation/interpreting tasks and other duties of linguistic support for military forces under normal and extreme conditions of military service, which involve a real threat to the professional's life and health both in peacetime and wartime.
  • Discourse domains: “national security”, “war”, “defense”, and “the military”.
  • Military vocabulary: the presence of specialized terms and concepts related to the discourse domains.
There exist some other attributes of military translation/interpreting, which are often described by researchers as “important” or “distinguishing”. We consider them secondary (non-mandatory) because these features cannot be correctly attributed to the entire diversity of military texts. These include:
  • high level of terminological density and special/vocational vocabulary in the source text (ST) and target text (TT);
  • the need for exact and particularly strict precision in ST/TT;
  • the relative absence of figurative-emotional expressive means in ST/TT.
These secondary characteristics of military translation/interpreting often depend on a particular type of military text, communicative intention, communicative situation, pragmatic conditions of communication, and other contextual factors. They do not apply to certain types of military discourse, such as informal oral speech of military personnel (jargon and slang); propaganda leaflets; texts of informational and psychological influence on the enemy; military memoirs; and recreational and amusement texts for soldiers (e.g., cartoons, jokes, stories, and anecdotes in military mass media).

4.5. Term/Concept "Military Text"

The majority of texts that a military translator/interpreter deals with, can be practically attributed to four functional language styles:
  • official-administrative;
  • scientific-technical;
  • journalistic-broadcasting;
  • conversational (informal or colloquial).
Military memoirs, as a specific genre-stylistic variety of military texts, belong to the literary style. Consequently, every military text naturally inherits the linguistic and communicative features of a particular dominating style, while also possessing additional specific parameters from one of the numerous specialized military domains.
We identify three main types of military texts:
  • military-political texts;
  • military-technical texts; and
  • military-specialized texts.
A group of general military texts can also be added as an optional fourth type.
The genre-stylistic types of military texts are:
  • military-academic texts;
  • military-journalistic texts;
  • military memoirs.
There are several complex military texts — such as the “Strategic Defense Bulletin”, “White Book”, and operational documents — which concurrently possess the specific features of several functional styles and genres.
The meticulous, linguistically sound, and consistent identification, description, verbal nomination, and typology of all specialized genres and subtypes of military texts using strict academic and linguistic parameters is not always expedient for practical reasons. For most military texts, one can find a cognate genre within the corresponding functional style or a functional-stylistic analogue in the literary, socio-political, scientific-technical, or specialized fields of translation studies.
For the standard structural analysis of military texts, we normally use the genre-stylistic matrix of military texts, which contains six structural levels:
  • style;
  • substyle;
  • genre group;
  • genre subgroup;
  • genre;
  • text.
Whenever necessary, the depth of the structural analysis of military texts can be further broken down into eight levels by adding “genre type” and “genre subtype” after “genre group”.

4.6. Prospects for Military Translation/Interpreting Theory

The prospects for further research into the scholarly issues of military translation/interpreting theory logically stem, first and foremost, from the necessity to fulfill the tasks defined in Section 3.2 of this article.
Furthermore, a broad range of pressing methodological, pedagogical, legal, and practical problems has emerged. These challenges are primarily associated with conceptualizing the role and place of modern artificial intelligence systems in the theory and practice of military translation/interpreting, the use of collaborative and crowdsourced translation platforms, and the integration of blended learning, digital education, and interdisciplinary research for educating and training military translators/interpreters.

5. Conclusions

Military translation/interpreting theory must satisfy standard methodological criteria through a sound framework of scholarly principles aimed at elucidating the specific nature of military intercultural communication. Relevant terminological definitions should articulate the ontological core and unique attributes of military translation/interpreting while promoting clear and precise comprehension. These definitions must systematically, consistently, and concisely describe core concepts using specialized terminology drawn from the domain of translation studies. Based on the results of the conducted research, military translation/interpreting theory is presented as a specialized theory within the field of translation studies, possessing methodologically defined fundamental parameters, specifically its object, subject matter, tasks, specific concepts, and metalinguistic units (terms and definitions).

Funding

This research received no external funding.

Acknowledgments

During the preparation of this article, the author utilized the Gemini large language model (Google) for the translation from Ukrainian into English, refinement of academic style, and formation of references. The author has reviewed and edited the output and takes full responsibility for the content of this publication.

Conflicts of Interest

The author declares no conflict of interest.

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