Mental Fatigue and Translation Quality (in German: Mentale Erschöpfung und Übersetzungsqualität) | Thematic Network on Empirical Research in Translation and Cognition

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Brief description:

The aim of the project is to find out whether, and if so, to which extent mental fatigue has an influence on translation quality.

Project publications:

Alves, Fabio & Vale, Daniel (2009). Probing the unit of translation in time: aspects of the design and development of a web application for storing, annotating and querying translation process data. Across Languages and Cultures 10: 2, p. 251–273.

Alves, Fabio & Vale, Daniel (2011). On drafting and revision in translation: a corpus linguistics oriented analysis of translation process data. Translation: Computation, Corpora, Cognition 1, p.105-122

Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen & Alexander Künzli (2010). Methods of accessing metalinguistic awareness: a question of quality?. In: Göpferich, Susanne, et al. (eds), New Approaches in Translation Process Research. Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur, 113-132.

Englund Dimitrova, B. & Tiselius, E. (2009) Exploring retrospection as a research method for studying the translation process and the interpreting process; I. M. Mees, F. Alves & S. Göpferich (eds) Methodology, Technology and Innovation in TPR

Fougner Rydning, A. & Lachaud, C. (2010). Context reduces ambiguity during comprehension, but multiplies creativity during translation. In G. Shreve & E. Angelone (Eds.), Translation and Cognition (pp. 85-108). John Benjamins

Fougner Rydning, A. & Lachaud, C. (2011). An investigation of the cognitive processes. In C. Alvstad, A. Hild & E. Tiselius (Eds.), Methods and Strategies of Process Research: Integrative approaches in Translation Studies (pp. 169-186). John Benjamins

Göpferich, Susanne (2010): "Data documentation and data accessibility in translation process research." The Translator 16.1 (2010): 93-124.

Hubscher-Davidson, S. (2009) ‘Personal Diversity and Diverse Personalities in Translation: a Study of Individual Differences’, Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 17 (3), Routledge, pp. 175-192

Hubscher-Davidson, Severine. (2013) The Role of Intuition in the Translation Process: a Case Study, Special Issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS), 8(2) John Benjamins Publishing Company

Hurtado Albir, A.; Alves, F. ”Translation as a cognitive activity”. The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies. Ed. Munday, J. London: Routledge, 2009. 54-73

Jääskeläinen, Riitta (2011) Studying the Translation Process, in Malmkjaer, K. & Windle, K. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Translation Studies. Oxford University Press. pp. 123-135.

Jakobsen, Arnt Lykke (2011) Tracking Translators’ Keystrokes and Eye Movements with Translog. In: Methods and Strategies of Process research : Integrative Approaches in Translation Studies, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 37-55.

Lachaud, C. (in press). Conceptual Metaphors and Embodied Cognition: EEG Coherence Reveals Brain Activity Differences between Primary and Complex Conceptual Metaphors during Comprehension, Cognitive Systems Research.

MASSANA-ROSELLÓ, G. (2010) La adquisición de la competencia traductora: modelos teóricos y estudios empíricos. MA Thesis in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies, Departament de Traducció i d’Interpretació, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Massey, Gary & Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow. 2012. Evaluating the process: implications for curriculum development. In: Zybatow, Lew, et al. (eds.). Translationswissenschaft interdisziplinär. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. 95-100.

Muñoz Martín, Ricardo. 2010. Leave no stone unturned: On the development of cognitive translatology. Journal of Translation & Interpreting Studies 5/2: 145–162.

Muñoz Martín, Ricardo. 2012. Just a matter of scope. Mental load in translation process research. Translation Spaces 1: 169–188.

Muñoz Martín, Ricardo. 2009. The way they were: Subject profiling in translation process research. S. Göpferich, F. Alves & I M Mees, eds. Methodology, Technology and Innovation in Translation Process Research. Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur, pp. 87–10.

Muñoz Martín, Ricardo. 2010. On paradigms and cognitive translatology. G. Shreve & E. Angelone, eds. Translation and Cognition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 169–187.

Muñoz Martín, Ricardo. 2011. Nomen mihi Legio est: A cognitive approach to Natural Translation. Mª J. Blasco & A. Jiménez, eds. Interpreting… naturally. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp. 35–66.

Muñoz Martín, Ricardo. 2013. Cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches. C. Millán & F. Bartrina, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies. New York: Routledge, pp. 241–256.

PACTE (2007) “Zum Wesen der übersetzungskompetenz – Grundlagen für die experimentelle Valiedierung eines Ük-Modells” [Translation competence: main features of the experimental validation of translation competence]. In: Wotjak, Gerd (ed.) Quo vadis Transla

PACTE (2008) “First results of a Translation Competence Experiment: ‘Knowledge of Translation’ and ‘Efficacy of the Translation Process’”. In: Kearns, John (ed.) Translator and Interpreter Training. Issues, Methods and Debates, London: Continuum, 104-126.

PACTE (2009). “Results of the Validation of the PACTE Translation Competence Model: Acdeptability and Decision Making”. Across Languages and Cultures, 10(2): 207-230.

PACTE (2011). “Results of the Validation of the PACTE Translation Competence Model: Translation Problems and Translation Competence”. In: Methods and Strategies of Process Research: Integrative Approaches in Translation Studies, Amsterdam: John Benjamins

PACTE (2011) “Results of the Validation of the PACTE Translation Competence Model: Translation Project and Dynamic Translation Index”. In: Sharon O’Brien (ed.) Cognitive Explorations of Translation, London and New York: Continuum Studies in Translation, 3

Presas, Marisa y Celia Martín de León. 2011. Teorías implícitas de traductores principiantes. Una investigación cualitativa en traductología cognitiva. Sendebar 22, 87-111.

Rydning, Antin Fougner & Lachaud, Christian Michel. An investigation of the cognitive processes in metaphor comprehension. Are primary conceptual metaphors easier to understand than complex conceptual metaphors? Benjamins Translation Library 2011, 169-

Data collection:

Keyloggers

Questionnaires

Tests

Texts

Translations

Other

Keywords in English:

Directionality:

L2 to L1

Other project members:

Prof. Klaus Schubert (University of Hildesheim, Germany)

Languages involved:

German, Spanish

Other data collection:

translation evaluation

Project type:

PhD thesis

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