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Translation in Transition: Human and machine intelligence
Edited by Isabel Lacruz
[American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series XX] 2023
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Chapter 12
The Monitor Model and its misconceptions

A clarification

| Kent State University

Horizontal (automatic) and vertical (control) processes have been observed and reported for a long time in translation production. Schaeffer and Carl’s Monitor Model integrates these two processes into one framework, assuming that priming mechanisms underlie horizontal/automatic processes, while vertical/monitoring processes implement consciously accessible control mechanisms. The Monitor Model has been criticized in various ways and several misconceptions have accumulated over the past years. In this chapter, I update the Monitor Model with additional evidence and argue that it is compatible with an enactivist approach to cognition. I address several misconceptions related to the Monitor Model.

Keywords: Translation Process Research, Monitor Model, computationalism, enactivism
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.TPR and the Monitor Model
  • 3.The translation automaton
  • 4.Misconceptions of the Monitor Model
    • 4.1Translation and priming
    • 4.2Translation as a dynamic process
    • 4.3Comprehension, transfer, and production
    • 4.4Default translation
    • 4.5Concurrent processing
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 26 July 2023
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