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Cognitive translation studies

Developments in theory and method

Abstract

The work of cognitive translation scholars, while motivated by questions about translational phenomena, necessarily engages with theoretical developments in the disciplines of psycholinguistics, bilingualism, psychology, cognitive science, and second language acquisition. Developments internal to these disciplines, as for instance models of bilingual semantic/conceptual representation, impact directly on our understanding of the findings of corpus-based translation studies. The paper focuses on the implications of models of bilingual semantic/conceptual representation for understanding corpus-based translational phenomena and concepts such as over-representation, under-representation, and the gravitational pull hypothesis. The use of combined experimental and corpus-based methodologies is discussed as a mechanism to understand the patterns found in translational corpora from a cognitive perspective.

Abstract

The work of cognitive translation scholars, while motivated by questions about translational phenomena, necessarily engages with theoretical developments in the disciplines of psycholinguistics, bilingualism, psychology, cognitive science, and second language acquisition. Developments internal to these disciplines, as for instance models of bilingual semantic/conceptual representation, impact directly on our understanding of the findings of corpus-based translation studies. The paper focuses on the implications of models of bilingual semantic/conceptual representation for understanding corpus-based translational phenomena and concepts such as over-representation, under-representation, and the gravitational pull hypothesis. The use of combined experimental and corpus-based methodologies is discussed as a mechanism to understand the patterns found in translational corpora from a cognitive perspective.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Translation and cognition 1
  4. Part I. Methodological innovation
  5. Uncertainty, uncertainty management and metacognitive problem solving in the translation task 17
  6. Coordination of reading and writing processes in translation 41
  7. Cognitive effort, syntactic disruption, and visual interference in a sight translation task 63
  8. The reformulation challenge in translation 85
  9. Translation units and grammatical shifts 109
  10. Controlled language and readability 143
  11. Part II. Research design and research issues
  12. On paradigms and cognitive translatology 169
  13. Integrative description of translation processes 189
  14. Are all professionals experts? 213
  15. Part III. Integration of translation process research and the cognitive sciences
  16. Expertise in interpreting 231
  17. The search for neuro-physiological correlates of expertise in interpreting 263
  18. Neural and physiological correlates of translation and interpreting in the bilingual brain 289
  19. Prompting cognates in the bilingual lexicon 323
  20. Cognitive translation studies 349
  21. Contributors 371
  22. Index 379
Translation and Cognition
This chapter is in the book Translation and Cognition
https://doi.org/10.1075/ata.xv.18hal

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Translation and cognition 1
  4. Part I. Methodological innovation
  5. Uncertainty, uncertainty management and metacognitive problem solving in the translation task 17
  6. Coordination of reading and writing processes in translation 41
  7. Cognitive effort, syntactic disruption, and visual interference in a sight translation task 63
  8. The reformulation challenge in translation 85
  9. Translation units and grammatical shifts 109
  10. Controlled language and readability 143
  11. Part II. Research design and research issues
  12. On paradigms and cognitive translatology 169
  13. Integrative description of translation processes 189
  14. Are all professionals experts? 213
  15. Part III. Integration of translation process research and the cognitive sciences
  16. Expertise in interpreting 231
  17. The search for neuro-physiological correlates of expertise in interpreting 263
  18. Neural and physiological correlates of translation and interpreting in the bilingual brain 289
  19. Prompting cognates in the bilingual lexicon 323
  20. Cognitive translation studies 349
  21. Contributors 371
  22. Index 379
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