Cognitive Explorations of Translation

Sharon O'Brien is a Lecturer in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University, Ireland

Trainers of translators tend to know what a good translation is. This knowledge results from their teaching experience and their knowledge of the professional market, but not always from empirical research. The contributors to this volume help to change that state of affairs: they make use of various methods (think aloud protocols, keylogging, eyetracking and cued retrospection) and their results are of great interest to those in practical and theoretical translation studies.

• Introduction, Sharon O'Brien 1. Back to basics: designing a study to determine the validity and reliability of verbal report data on translation processes, Riitta Jääskelainen2. Results of the validation of the PACTE translation competence model: Translation project and dynamic translation index, PACTE Group 3. Exploring translation competence acquisition: criteria of analysis put to the test, Susanne Göpferich, Gerrit Bayer-Hohenwarter, Friederike Prassl and Johann Stadlober 4. Development of translation competence in novices: a corpus design and key logging analysis, Heloísa Pezza Cintrão 5. Uncertainty management, metacognitive bundling in problem solving, and translation quality, Erik Angelone and Gregory M. Shreve6. EEG, EYE and Key: three simultaneous streams of data for investigating the cognitive mechanisms of translation, Christian Michel Lachaud7. Translation directionality and the revised hierarchical model: an eye-tracking study, Vincent Chieh-Ying Chang8. Towards an investigation of reading modalities in/for translation: an exploratory study using eye tracking data, Fabio Alves, Adriana Pagano and Igor da Silva 9. Cognitive effort in metaphor translation: an eye-tracking study, Annette Sjørup10. Distribution of attention between source text and target text during translation, Kristian T.H. Jensen Glossary of Terms Index