Part of
Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting Process ResearchEdited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Susanne Göpferich and Sharon O'Brien
[Benjamins Current Topics 72] 2015
► pp. 35–47
Edited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Susanne Göpferich and Sharon O'Brien
[Benjamins Current Topics 72] 2015
► pp. 35–47
Extended translation
A sociocognitive research agenda
Consideration of current developments in cognitive science is indispensable when defining research agendas addressing cognitive aspects of translation. One such development is the recognition of the extended nature of human cognition: Cognition is not just an information manipulation process in the brain, it is contextualised action embedded in a body and increasingly mediated by technologies and situated in its socio-cultural environment. Parallel developments are found in neighbouring disciplines, such as sociology with its actor-network and activity theories. This chapter examines these approaches, their shared methodological tenets (i.e., ethnographic field studies) and the implications of the situated cognition approach for describing the cognitive aspects of translation, using a translation management case study to discuss conceptual and methodological issues.
References
Abdallah, Kristiina
2011 “Quality Problems in AVT Production Networks: Reconstructing an Actor-Network in the Subtitling Industry.” In Audiovisual Translation in Close-up: Practical and Theoretical Approaches, ed. by Adriana Serban, Anna Matamala, and Jean-Marc Lavaur, 173–186. Bern: Peter Lang.
Bogic, Anna
2010 “Uncovering the Hidden Actors with the Help of Latour: The ‘Making’ of the Second Sex.” MonTI 2: 173–192. 
Buzelin, Hélène
2005 “Unexpected Allies: How Latour’s Network Theory Could Complement Bourdieusian Analyses in Translation Studies.” The Translator 11 (2): 193–218.
Bourdieu, Pierre
2001 Science de la science et réflexivité. Paris: Éditions Raisons d´Agir.
Callon, Michel
1986 “Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay.” In Power, Action and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge, ed. by John Law, 196–233. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Clark, Andy
1997 Being there. Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
2008 Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Clark, Andy, and David J. Chalmers
1998 “The Extended Mind.” Analysis 58 (1): 7–19.
Donmoyer, Robert
2000 “Generalizability and the Single-Case Study.” In Case Study Method: Key Issues, Key Texts, ed. by Roger Gomm, Martyn Hammersley, and Peter Foster, 45–68. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Engeström, Yrjö
1990 Learning, Working, and Imagining: Twelve Studies in Activity Theory. Helsinki: OrientaKonsultit Oy.
Holz-Mänttäri, Justa
1993 “Textdesign – verantwortlich und gehirngerecht.” In Traducere Navem, ed. by Justa Holz-Mänttäri, and Christiane Nord, 301–320. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto.
Hutchins, Edwin
1995a Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge: The MIT Press.
1995b “How a Cockpit Remembers its Speeds.” Cognitive Science 19: 265–288.
Kaptelinin, Victor, and Bonnie A. Nardi
2006 Acting with Technology. Activity Theory and Interaction Design. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kuutti, Kari
1991a “Activity Theory and its Applications in Information Systems Research and Design.” In Information Systems Research Arena of the 90’s, ed. by Hans-Erik Nissen, Heinz-Karl Klein, and Rudy A. Hirschheim, 529–550. Amsterdam: North-Holland.
1991b “The Concept of Activity as a Basic Unit for CSCW Research.” In Proceedings of the 2nd ECSCW, 1991, ed. by Liam J. Bannon, Mike Robinson, and Kjeld Schmidt, 249–264. Amsterdam: Kluwer.
Latour, Bruno
1986 “Visualization and Cognition.” Knowledge and Society 6: 1–40.
2005 Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Leontiev, Aleksej N
1978/1987 Activity, Consciousness, and Personality. Translated by Marie J. Hall. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: PrenticeHall.
Martín de León, Celia
2008 “Translation in the Wild: Traductología y cognicíon situada.” In La traducción del future: mediación lingüística y cultural en el siglo XXI. Vol II. La traducción y su entorno, ed. by Luis Pegenaute, Janet DeCesaris, Mercè Tricás, and Elisenda Bernal, 55–64. Barcelona: PPU.
Menary, Richard
(ed) 2010 The Extended Mind. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
Oyserman, Daphna
2011 “Culture as Situated Cognition: Cultural Mindsets, Cultural Fluency, and Meaning Making.” European Review of Social Psychology 22 (1): 164–214.
Prunč, Erich
2007 “Zur Konstruktion von Translationskulturen.” In Translationskultur: Ein innovatives und produktives Konzept, ed. by Larisa Schippel, 19–41. Berlin: Frank & Timme.
Risku, Hanna
2010 “Lotsen im soziokulturellen Luftraum — TranslatorInnen im Tower trans-kultureller Fachkommunikation.” In Translationskultur revisited. Festschrift für Erich Prunč, ed. by Nadja Grbič, Gernot Hebenstreit, Gisella Vorderobermeier, and Michaela Wolf, 173–189. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.
Risku, Hanna, Nicole Rossmanith, Andreas Reichelt, and Lukas Zenk
2013 “Translation in the Network Economy: A Follow-up Study.” In Tracks and Treks in Translation Studies, ed. by Catherine Way, Sonia Vandepitte, Reine Meylaerts, and Magdalena Bartlomiejczyk, 29–48. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Schäffner, Christina
1997 “From ‘Good’ to ‘Functionally Appropriate’: Assessing Translation Quality.” Current Issues in Language and Society 4 (1): 1–5.
Simeoni, Daniel
Snell-Hornby, Mary, Zuzana Jettmarová, and Klaus Kaindl
(eds) 1997 Translation as Intercultural Communication. Selected Papers from the EST Congress, Prague 1995. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Sperber, Dan, and Lawrence Hirschfeld
1999 “Culture, Cognition, and Evolution.” In MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, ed. by Robert Wilson, and Frank Keil, cxi–cxxxii. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Susam-Sarajeva, Şebnem
2009 “The Case Study Research Method in Translation Studies.” The Interpreter and Translator Trainer 3 (1): 37–56.
Vorderobermeier, Gisella
2008 “Migration als Übersetzung: Versuch einer Annäherung aus soziokognitiver Sicht.” In “Meine Sprache grenzt mich ab…” Transkulturalität und kulturelle Übersetzung in Kontext von Migration, ed. by Gisella Vorderobermeier, and Michaela Wolf, 37–50. Vienna: LIT.
Cited by
Cited by 5 other publications
O'Brien, Sharon
2017. Machine Translation and Cognition. In The Handbook of Translation and Cognition, ► pp. 311 ff. 
O’Brien, Sharon
2023. Human-Centered augmented translation: against antagonistic dualisms. Perspectives ► pp. 1 ff.
Risku, Hanna
2020. Cognitive Approaches to Translation. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics, ► pp. 1 ff.
Sickinger, Pawel
2017. Aiming for Cognitive Equivalence – Mental Models as a Tertium Comparationis for Translation and Empirical Semantics. Research in Language 15:2 ► pp. 213 ff.
Tiselius, Elisabet, Raphael Sannholm & Laura Babcock
2022. Innovative approaches to study Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies. Translation, Cognition & Behavior 5:2 ► pp. 216 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 14 september 2023. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.