Studying the information behaviour, to which also user studies belong, represents the most fertile point of contact between information science and sociology, psychology and education science. According to their purpose user studies belong to the information science, according to their methods (questionnaire, interview, focus group) they belong to the named older social sciences.
The conception of translation and translating methods has been changing since Saint Jarome, though the general definition of translation as the transfer of message and its content in one language into another language remains valid. Erroneous perspectives concerning the role of translators can be disturbing to their work.
This paper introduces material that should function as the basis for the Introduction to the criticism of the information society, an article I am about to write.
By comparing the entries for technical communicator in different dictionaries, the article discloses the problem of the meaning-shift in certain components of the terminology, which aggravates the importation and translation of technical terms in receiving languages.
