Looking Toward the Future of Cognitive Translation Studies

Martín, Ricardo Muñoz

doi:10.1002/9781119241485.ch30

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“…According to Muñoz [32], cognitive processes are embodied because they are shaped by bodily experiences; they are embedded because the brain is integrated into the body and its environment; enactive because they are comprised of actions; extended because they rely on external tools to alleviate cognitive load; and affective because emotions influence behavior and some social activities require the ability to reason regarding the emotions of others. From this vantage point, translators derive meaning from their interactions within the context as well as their cultural, social, sensorimotor, and emotional experiences.…”

Section: Cognitive Translatologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Units of Translation and the Limited Capacity of Working Memory

Naranjo Ruiz,

Lorena Giraldo Ospina

2023

Translatology, Translation and Interpretation - Toward a New Scientific Endeavor

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A unit of translation is a source text fragment of any length or nature that piques a translator’s interest during translation. Alves and Vale proposed the concept of macro and micro translation units based on pauses and times identified in Translog software while translating a document. The objective of this exploratory study was to describe the characteristics of translation units in relation to the limited capacity of working memory (WM) and the information storage-processing capacity. Four trained translators participated in this study, translating a short text about underground mining. The data collection tools were Translog II and Camtasia software. Findings showed that participants used an analytic and sequential processing method and their limited capacity of WM exhibited a lower processing speed, which had an impact on the length of the macro units of translation (UTs).

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Section: Cognitive Translatologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Units of Translation and the Limited Capacity of Working Memory

Naranjo Ruiz,

Lorena Giraldo Ospina

2023

Translatology, Translation and Interpretation - Toward a New Scientific Endeavor

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“…At the start of the third decade of this century, CTIS is one of the most active and the fastestgrowing areas in TS (Jääskeläinen & Lacruz, 2018 (Carl, 2010(Carl, , 2013, often overlapping with the old label of Translation Process Research (Jakobsen, 2014) and Cognitive Translatology (Muñoz, 2010(Muñoz, , 2017Muñoz & González in press) -various research domains, such as reception studies (Kruger et al, 2016;Szarkowska & Gerber-Morón, 2018) and workplace studies (Ehrensberger-Dow, 2014;Risku, 2014;Teixeira & O'Brien, 2017), and many particular topics, such as problem-solving (e.g., Nitzke, 2019), cognitive effort and load (e.g., Szarkowska et al, 2016;Vieira, 2014), attention and cognitive control (e.g., Dong & Li, 2020), skill acquisition and development (e.g., Massey, 2019), stress management (e.g., Korpal, 2016), emotions (e.g., Rojo & Ramos, 2016) and multimodality (e.g., Tuominen, et al, 2018). This is how we got here.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cognitive Translation Studies: Models and methods at the cutting edge

Xiao¹,

Martín

2021

LANS-TTS

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Several indicators seem to suggest that, through nearly six decades of development, Cognitive Translation Studies (CTS) may be taking shape as an autonomous field of study. The main challenges ahead seem to be building sounder theoretical models and carrying out more rigorous methodological scrutiny. These two strands converge as central themes in the 11 contributions to this special issue of LANS-TTS. To provide a context for theoretical modelling and to frame critical discussions of the methods included in this volume, we first trace the present landscape of CTS and how it evolved so as to test Holmes’ criteria for disciplines: founding new channels of communication and sharing a “disciplinary utopia”. The contributions are arranged into four thematic categories as applied to CTS, namely, scientometrics, framing or reframing our field, the reliability and validity of popular research methods, and new methods or novel approaches. This article closes with a call to reflect on some fundamental issues on the next steps of humankind regarding communication, with ever-growing societal demands and expectations that call for refreshing our notions of translation in the context of increasingly diversified forms of multilectal mediated communication.

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“…Consequently, the history of Cognitive Translation Studies is replete with techniques to procure numerical data that reflect various cognitive processes, and many authors have outlined the history of innovation in such research methods (e.g., Alves, 2015;Alves & Hurtado Albir, 2017;Jääskeläinen, 2011;Muñoz Martín, 2017;Shreve & Angelone, 2010b). These histories generally trace the first phase of cognitive studies to the mid-1980s and the predominance of descriptive research based on data collected with think-aloud protocols (TAPs), a method drawn from the field of cognitive psychology (Ericsson & Simon, 1984).…”

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“…Perhaps with further hindsight a future generation of scholars will condense the first three phrases of research in Cognitive Translation Studies into one longer era of method-driven innovation (in which TAPs, keystroke-logging software, and eye-tracking hardware drove changes in empirical research) and a currently emerging second era including greater attention to theory building, consolidation, and testing. One such attempt to identify broad theoretical paradigms is Muñoz Martín's (2017) distinction between computational translatology and cognitive translatology. The latter emphasizes that cognition is embodied, embedded, enactive, extended, and affective (4EA; Clark, 1996) and recognizes the role of context and situated cognition (Pöchhacker, 2005; see also Muñoz Martín, 2016).…”

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Methodological considerations for survey research: Validity, reliability, and quantitative analysis

Mellinger

Hanson

2021

LANS-TTS

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As translation and interpreting studies continue to develop cognitive theories of translator and interpreter behavior and processing, there has been increased emphasis on research methods and data collection methodologies to glean new insights into the translation process. This article presents a critical review of survey research methods in Cognitive Translation Studies and argues for their inclusion as a means of better understanding translator and interpreter attitudes, behaviors, perceptions, and values. The article begins with a reflection on measurement and the need for alignment with theoretical frameworks and constructs; then it reviews important considerations when developing theoretically-grounded, empirically-based survey instruments, namely, validity, reliability, measurement invariance, and quantitative analysis. The article concludes with a call for additional methodological reflection on developing and using survey instruments.

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Looking Toward the Future of Cognitive Translation Studies

Cited by 34 publications

References 59 publications

Units of Translation and the Limited Capacity of Working Memory

Units of Translation and the Limited Capacity of Working Memory

Cognitive Translation Studies: Models and methods at the cutting edge

Methodological considerations for survey research: Validity, reliability, and quantitative analysis

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