Neurolinguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Interpreting

Setton, Robin

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“…As one of the most complex and demanding language tasks, which involves listening to a speech uttered in a source language (SL) and translating it into a target language (TL) at the same time, professional simultaneous interpreting (SI) requires a large amount of cognitive capacity and a wide range of cognitive abilities associated with language processing across two languages, including decision making (e.g., choosing an SI strategy) and executive functions, such as working memory, inhibition control, and cognitive flexibility. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Identifying the neuromarker of SI is essential for better understanding the neural mechanism of extreme language control. To the best of our knowledge, no neuroimaging study has been performed to examine the neural correlates of particular translation strategies.…”

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Which is more costly in Chinese to English simultaneous interpreting, “pairing” or “transphrasing”? Evidence from an fNIRS neuroimaging study

Lin

Lei

et al. 2018

Neurophoton.

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This study examined the neural mechanism underlying two translation strategies associated with Chinese to English simultaneous interpreting (SI) targeting the left prefrontal cortex (PFC), which is generally involved in the control of interference and conflict resolution and has been identified as the brain area that plays a pivotal role in SI. Brain activation associated with the two strategies including "pairing" and "transphrasing" were compared with that from "nontranslation," which keeps the source language item unchanged in the target language production and is considered as a tactic that does not require complex cognitive operation associated with bilingual processing effort. Our findings revealed that "pairing" elicited the strongest and almost immediate brain activation in the Broca's area, and "transphrasing" resulted in the most extensive and strongest activation overall in the left PFC. By contrast, "nontranslation" induced very little brain activation in these regions. This work, which represents one of the first efforts in investigating brain activation related to translation strategies involving different levels of cognitive control, will not only pave a new avenue for better understanding of the cognitive mechanism underlying SI but also provide further insight into the role that the Broca's region plays in domain-general cognitive control.

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Which is more costly in Chinese to English simultaneous interpreting, “pairing” or “transphrasing”? Evidence from an fNIRS neuroimaging study

Lin

Lei

et al. 2018

Neurophoton.

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Stepping into others’ shoes: a cognitive perspective on target audience orientation in written translation

Apfelthaler

2014

MonTI

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This paper suggests what might allow translators to orient themselves towards their target audience in the translation process. To shed light on translators' ability to put themselves into their target audience' s shoes, I adopt a cognitive perspective by drawing on current findings from psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience. I depart from the notion of target audience as applied to written translation. Aspects to this concept and the terminology of audience in translation studies are briefly discussed. Then I turn to translation process research to examine two empirical studies and one theoretical paper for insights into researching translators' target audience orientation. Next, I introduce concepts from social cognition research that might contribute to give a cognitive account of translators' behavior towards the target audience. I then touch upon the relation of the functional neurocognitive network presumably supporting target audience orientation with other neurocognitive networks that seem particularly relevant to translation. As a complement, I present a research design for empirically verifying my claim about what enables translators' target audience orientation, and gaining further insight into the relations between target audience orientation, translation process and translation product. Finally, some conclusions about the benefits of this type of research are offered.

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Neurolinguistic and Cognitive Aspects of Interpreting

Abstract: Interpreting looks at first sight like rapid language transfer, a kind of instant translation relying on exceptional linguistic proficiency, but there is direct and indirect evidence of abundant supporting cognitive activity.

Cited by 2 publications

References 27 publications

Which is more costly in Chinese to English simultaneous interpreting, “pairing” or “transphrasing”? Evidence from an fNIRS neuroimaging study

Which is more costly in Chinese to English simultaneous interpreting, “pairing” or “transphrasing”? Evidence from an fNIRS neuroimaging study

Stepping into others’ shoes: a cognitive perspective on target audience orientation in written translation

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