IATE term of the week: Professionalisation
Held in Brussels this Thursday 27th and Friday 28th October by the European Commission, the Translating Europe Forum 2016 has inspired our IATE Term of the Week. The main topics discussed on this forum were mainly about employability, skills, quality, visibility, tools and technologies, cooperation, and of course, professionalisation.
DG Translation has the goal of designing Forums & Workshops in order to address skills gaps in the language industry and make translation students and graduates more readily employable, and this is basically what our term is about.
But what is it exactly meaning? According to the Collins Dictionary definition, professionalisation is the act or process of imposing a professional structure or status on an activity; and concurrently, the Oxford Dictionary of Social Work and Social Care qualifies that the professionalisation of an occupation may allow the occupational group in question to exercise more power, enhance its status, and increase its remuneration.
Find more information, details and the results provided by the IATE data base.
Regarding its etymology, professionalisation is a term formed by the root professio (nominative) in Latin, meaning “public declaration”, plus the suffix -ation, which indicates the action or process of doing something.
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Written by Ana Jiménez Morente
Content Editor. Communication Trainee, DG TRAD – Terminology Coordination Unit
Sources
- European Commission – European Commission. 2016. #TranslatingEurope Forum 2016. [ONLINE] Available at: https://ec.europa.eu/info/events/translatingeurope_en. [Accessed 27 October 2016].
- Merriam-Webster. 2016. -ation | Definition of -ation by Merriam-Webster. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/-ation. [Accessed 27 October 2016].
- Online Etymology Dictionary. 2016. Online Etymology Dictionary. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=profession. [Accessed 27 October 2016].
- professionalize | Definition, meaning & more | Collins Dictionary. 2016. professionalize | Definition, meaning & more | Collins Dictionary. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/professionalize. [Accessed 27 October 2016].