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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUALITATIVE METHODS
Volume 18, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1609406919868354
Keywords
qualitative research; translation; meaning; analysis; sensitive data
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- College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science Open Access Fund, University of Edinburgh
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Background: In non-English or cross-cultural qualitative research, scholars have long debated the impact of involving translators on the transfer of meanings during the process of translation between languages. The management of sensitive data can even further complicate the research process when translators outside the research team are involved in the translation. Purpose: To discuss a translation method, which is drawn from a qualitative study, for managing sensitive qualitative data and enhancing research transparency. Method: Translation approach in qualitative research. Findings: The use of this translation method was revealed in this study to (1) enhance the researcher's prolonged engagement with the data and intimate understanding of the meanings underlying participants' experience, (2) to increase the transparency of qualitative data interpretation and analysis, (3) to facilitate sensitizing cultural nuances and finding meaning and concept equivalence during the process of data translation and analysis, and (4) to handle data more sensitively.
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