Risk Management: A Strategy for a More Precise Translation of Hedges in Academic Articles

The purpose of this study was to investigate the procedures adopted by Iranian translation students in the translation of hedges. To this end, participants were asked to translate an academic article in the field of medical sciences from English into Persian. Pisanski Peterlin and Zlatnar Moe’s (2016) approach was utilized for data collection and analysis so as to examine Iranian students’ general approach in hedging translation. The results indicated that, in spite of their importance in academic writing, almost forty percent of hedges were altered or deleted in different ways. Additionally, semi-structured discourse-based interviews were conducted to further examine the reasons behind students’ decisions regarding hedging translation. Finally, the findings were discussed within the risk management framework in translation. The analysis suggested that Anthony Pym’s (2015) risk management framework could provide a real help to translators in translating hedging devices.