From the black box to Cognitive Translation & Interpreting Studies, but still part of the original Descriptive Translation Studies (original) (raw)

Toward a Comparative Translation and Interpreting Studies

We welcome theoretical papers on the methodological aspects/issues of CTIS and empirical studies comparing practices and theories of translation/interpreting in different societies and cultures. We welcome papers exploring both pros and cons of creating CTIS. We hope to address the following and similar questions: I. Is TIS mature enough as a discipline to undertake comparative studies? And also: Can TIS become mature enough without undertaking comparative studies? II. Is the insularity of translation/interpreting research—whether geographical or temporal—epistemologically problematic? Are comparative studies feasible/promising? III. What can the relationship between regional/case studies and more generalizing, comparative studies be? To what extent is W. H. Goodenough’s insistence on keeping ethnography and comparative sociology apart because an ethnographer is constructing a theory that will make intelligible what goes on in a particular social universe, while a comparatist is trying to find principles common to many different universes, mutatis mutandis, applicable to translation/interpreting studies? IV. Can chronotopically-specific studies help researchers fathom the generalizability of identified translational phenomena? Based on a comparison of time- and space-specific findings, can a typology of translation/interpreting be developed? What axes of the quest for types can be proposed or explored: different types of translation/interpreting praxis? different types of translation/interpreting descriptions and/or prescriptions, social and cultural representations, histories and historiographies, theories and conceptualizations of translation/interpreting? the roles assumed by or ascribed to translation/interpreting? V. What might the methodological and conceptual ‘nitty-gritty’ of CTIS look like?

The position of psycholinguistics and cognitive science in translation and interpreting: An introduction

Translation Studies (TS), the young academic discipline which has developed around research on translation and interpreting, spans a remarkably wide spectrum of approaches, theories and research methods. he present collection highlights the input of psycholinguistics and cognitive science to TS through a scrutiny of recent indings and current theories and research. Before presenting the contributions ofered in this volume, it is perhaps useful to recall some historical and contextual background to gain a better overall perspective and view of where and how they it in the wider framework of past and present TS.

The Development of Translation Studies as a Discipline – from Linguistics to Cognition

2011

We are reading repeatedly in many articles that Translation Studies (TS), i.e. research regarding the transference of texts into another language, were not yet a fully fledged discipline of its own. However, this opinion gets weaker the more publications are coming out in this area. No longer are studies on translation and interpreting only an appendix of language learning, rather they have grown into a special discipline. This is particularly true, if we don‟t define a discipline by the application of only one method of research, a so-called research paradigm. In TS a great variety of approaches and methods is visible, and they all are valid as they contribute to a better understanding of the complex problematic linked to translation.Whereas no unique research paradigm is yet given for TS, the subject of the studies is clear: translating written texts or interpreting spoken messages. But here, again, there is a variety of research objects: translation as a product (the finished tra...

27 Translation and cognitive science.PPT

The talk argues against the segmentation of translating by linguistics, anthropology, or philosophy, which has proved any of these disciplines alone to be an impediment to a comprehensive approach of translating. To mirror the complexity of translating, the talk shows translating to be multi-disciplinary par excellence. It seeks to highlight the inherent cognitive science dimensions of translating through disciplines such as cognitive linguistics, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and artificial intelligence to. To substantiate the claims made, the talk overly relies on the cognitive ability of metaphor and related topics such as idioms and proverbs.