Meaning and words in the conference interpreter’s
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Chmiel, Agnieszka

doi:10.1075/tcb.00002.chm

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“…Further evidence that translating isolated words into L2 is more demanding than translating into L1 comes from psycholinguistic reaction time studies which repeatedly reported that participants take longer to translate in the L2 direction, and the level of accuracy is much lower than in the opposite direction (Kroll & Tokowicz, 2001, p. 54). Chmiel (2018) investigated bidirectional interpreters using semantic priming in a single word recognition task and reported that despite their bilingual expertise, they showed the effect of L1 dominance. If translating single words and sentences into L2 is cognitively more demanding and error-prone than translating into L1, can this finding be extrapolated to full text translation?…”

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Directionality and lexical selection in professional translators: Evidence from verbal fluency and translation tasks

Tomczak

Whyatt

2022

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Lexical selection is a key process in any language-based communicative event, but in translation it occurs in the semantic network activated by two languages. The question asked in this article is how the direction in which translation proceeds affects the process and outcome of lexical selection by experienced bidirectional translators. The prediction from the available empirical evidence that lexical selection when translating into the translator’s L2 (learned language) is more cognitively demanding than when working into L1 (native language) is tested in an experimental study with translators who regularly translate into their L1 (Polish) and L2 (English). The participants performed verbal fluency tasks and translated two texts (a product description text and a film review) into their L1 and L2 (four texts in total). The entire process was recorded by key-logging, eye-tracking and screen capture programs. The results confirm that lexical selection is more demanding and less successful in L1>L2 translation, thus confirming the L2 cognitive disadvantage. Equipping translation students with effective error-preventing strategies and encouraging collaboration between translators and proofreaders could optimise lexical selection in L1>L2 translation.

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Section: Directionality Mattersmentioning

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Directionality and lexical selection in professional translators: Evidence from verbal fluency and translation tasks

Tomczak

Whyatt

2022

Trans-Int

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“…In small translation markets where the home language has a low diffusion translators need to be versatile and translate into their L1 and L2, that is they provide services in bidirectional translation (Pavlović 2007b;Whyatt and Kościuczuk 2013;Ferreira and Schwieter 2017;Chmiel 2018). It seems intuitive that when translating into L2, translators will rely more on external support -now this support usually comes from online resources (henceforth OR).…”

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Information behaviour in bidirectional translators: focus on online resources

Whyatt

Witczak

Tomczak

2021

The Interpreter and Translator Trainer

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Effective information behaviour is crucial in all translation competence models but our understanding of how information skills develop and how translators interact with information found in online resources is still limited. In this article we focus on information behaviour (needs and use) of bidirectional translators who frequently translate into their native (L1) and their non-native language (L2). The theoretical underpinnings come from information studies: (1) information is needed when cognitive uncertainty arises and -when found -it allows the translator to make an informed decision; (2) translators are driven by economy of effort and will minimise the cost of searching for information. The empirical evidence comes from a study of 30 professional bidirectional translators who translated two texts into their native language of low diffusion (Polish) and into their non-native major language (English). A close analysis of their information behaviour included data obtained by keylogging, eye-tracking and screen recording, and showed that using online resources adds more cognitive effort when translators work into their L2. We use the results to draft a model of information behaviour which shows how the use of online resources is affected by the translation direction.

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Towards a methodological toolset for the psycholinguistics of translation

Jacob

Schaeffer

Oster

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CogLS

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The manuscript provides readers with a basic methodological toolset for experimental psycholinguistic studies on translation. Following a description of key methodological concepts and the rationale behind experimental designs in psycholinguistics, we discuss experimental paradigms adopted from bilingualism research, which potentially constitute a methodological foundation for studies investigating the psycholinguistics of translation. Specifically, we show that priming paradigms possess several inherent advantages which make them particularly suitable for research on translation. The manuscript critically discusses key methodological problems associated with such paradigms and illustrates the opportunities they may offer for translation research, concludes with a review of past and current translation process research highlighting ways in which these can contribute to the issues raised by cross-linguistic priming studies.

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Meaning and words in the conference interpreter’s mind

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

Directionality and lexical selection in professional translators: Evidence from verbal fluency and translation tasks

Directionality and lexical selection in professional translators: Evidence from verbal fluency and translation tasks

Information behaviour in bidirectional translators: focus on online resources

Towards a methodological toolset for the psycholinguistics of translation

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