This article draws on relevance theory (Sperber and Wilson 1986/1995) and its
application to translation (Gutt 2000) to investigate processing effort in translation
in relation to two different types of encodings, namely conceptual and
procedural encodings (Blakemore 2002, Wilson 2011). Building on the experimental
paradigm of data triangulation in translation process research (Alves
2003; Jakobsen 2005), it analyses the translation processes of eight professional
translators when performing a direct and an inverse translation task. The analysis
focuses on the number and types of encodings found in micro/macro translation
units (Alves and Vale 2009; 2011). Results suggest that processing effort in
translation is greater in instances of procedural than conceptual encodings.
