Türkiye'de özel sektörde ve kamu sektörü'nde çalışan çevirmenlerin statüye ilişkin öz algıları

The translation literature indicates a negative perception regarding the translator status and the translation profession. This low status perception is due to low degrees of professionalisation, status and recognition, and the current working conditions. The present study sets out to explore how the state and private sector translators' social, symbolic, cultural capital and translatorial habitus are related to their self-perceptions of status as a professional group in Turkey. To this end, I conducted semi-structured in-depth interviews with thirteen translators who work in the state and private sectors in Turkey. The findings of the interviews are discussed in the light of Dam and Zethsen's four well-established status parameters and Pierre Bourdieu's key concepts of capital and habitus. According to my findings, translation is not still a fully established profession in Turkey and translators believe that translation as a profession has a lower and middling status in society. In a Bourdieusian sense, the findings reveal that they possess different types of capital with different amounts and based on these different forms of capital, they have developed a habitus of proud, satisfied, committed but unrecognized experts The sample analyzed is too small to lead to certain conclusions, but a series of hypotheses are formed regarding the factors affecting translators' low or middling status perceptions.