Hanna Risku

Sannholm, Raphael and Hanna Risku 2024 Situated minds and distributed systems in translation: Exploring the conceptual and empirical implications Target 36:2, pp. 159–183 | Article

This article sheds light on two different perspectives on the boundaries of the cognitive system and the consequences of their adoption for Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS). Both are represented by different approaches within the cognitive scientific cluster of approaches… read more

Schlager, Daniela and Hanna Risku 2023 Contextualising translation expertise: Lived practice and social construction Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies in the Early Twenty First Century, García, Adolfo M., Edinson Muñoz and Néstor Singer (eds.), pp. 230–251 | Article

Translation expertise has been discussed intensely in (cognitive) translation studies. Most research has been conducted in laboratory settings, attempting to discern the differences between experienced translators (‘experts’) and lesser experienced translators. This has resulted in valuable, yet… read more

Risku, Hanna, Jelena Milosevic and Regina Rogl 2021 Chapter 7. Responsibility, powerlessness, and conflict: An ethnographic case study of boundary management in translation Translating Asymmetry – Rewriting Power, Carbonell i Cortés, Ovidi and Esther Monzó-Nebot (eds.), pp. 145–168 | Chapter

A growing body of research shows the existence of tensions, frictions, and conflicts in translation production networks, pointing to the key role therein of agency, trust, communication, and technology. However, there are few empirical investigations that include the different actors in one and… read more

Risku, Hanna, Regina Rogl and Jelena Milosevic 2019 Translation practice in the field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes Translation Practice in the Field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes, Risku, Hanna, Regina Rogl and Jelena Milosevic (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Introduction

Risku, Hanna, Regina Rogl and Jelena Milosevic 2017 Translation practice in the field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes Translation Practice in the Field: Current research on socio-cognitive processes, Risku, Hanna, Regina Rogl and Jelena Milosevic (eds.), pp. 3–26 | Article

Risku, Hanna, Jelena Milosevic and Christina Pein-Weber 2016 Writing vs. translating: dimensions of text production in comparison Reembedding Translation Process Research, Muñoz Martín, Ricardo (ed.), pp. 47–68 | Article

The tasks of writing and translation show several similarities in the challenges they pose and the processes they include. In translation studies, the fuzzy edges between these tasks have been studied in many ways. To compare the processes of writing and translating in the field, we observed a… read more

Risku, Hanna and Florian Windhager 2015 Extended translation: A sociocognitive research agenda Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting Process Research, Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen, Susanne Göpferich and Sharon O'Brien (eds.), pp. 35–47 | Article

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… read more

Risku, Hanna 2013 Knowledge management and translation Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 4, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 92–97 | Article

Risku, Hanna and Florian Windhager 2013 Extended Translation: A Sociocognitive Research Agenda Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting Process Research, Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen, Susanne Göpferich and Sharon O'Brien (eds.), pp. 33–45 | Article

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… read more

Risku, Hanna, Florian Windhager and Matthias Apfelthaler 2013 A dynamic network model of translatorial cognition and action Translation Spaces 2, pp. 151–182 | Article

As an interdisciplinary research endeavor into the foundations of human and artificial intelligence, cognitive science has substantial contributions to offer to the field of translation studies. Like any other explanatory approach to socially embedded and organized behavior, cognitive science deals… read more

Risku, Hanna, Nicole Rossmanith, Andreas Reichelt and Lukas Zenk 2013 Translation in the network economy: A follow-up study Tracks and Treks in Translation Studies: Selected papers from the EST Congress, Leuven 2010, Way, Catherine, Sonia Vandepitte, Reine Meylaerts and Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk (eds.), pp. 29–48 | Article

If we consider the aspect of “situatedness” in translation, it becomes clear that social connections have a key influence on the work process. Five years after the completion of a case study examining the roles, competences and work coordination of translation project managers (performed in 2002),… read more

Risku, Hanna 2012 Shreve, Gregory M. & Erik Angelone, eds. 2010. Translation and Cognition The Known Unknowns of Translation Studies, Brems, Elke, Reine Meylaerts and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 198–202 | Review

Risku, Hanna 2010 A cognitive scientific view on technical A cognitive scientific view on technical: Do embodiment and situatedness really make a difference? Target 22:1, pp. 94–111 | Article

This article provides a brief presentation of the development of some cognitive scientific views on technical communication and translation. I look in detail at one of the latest cognitive scientific trends, namely Situated and Embodied Cognition. According to this approach, humans are creative… read more

Risku, Hanna, Angela Dickinson and Richard Pircher 2010 Knowledge in Translation Studies and translation practice: Intellectual capital in modern society Why Translation Studies Matters, Gile, Daniel, Gyde Hansen and Nike K. Pokorn (eds.), pp. 83–94 | Article

This paper seeks to show that translation practice and Translation Studies matter on both an organisational and a social level by demonstrating that the knowledge they generate forms an important part of the intellectual capital in the knowledge society and a key factor in value creation in… read more

Risku, Hanna 2007 The role of technology in translation management Doubts and Directions in Translation Studies: Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Lisbon 2004, Gambier, Yves, Miriam Shlesinger † and Radegundis Stolze (eds.), pp. 85–97 | Chapter

Translators play a key role in the growing market for intercultural technical communication and translation technologies can assist them in several areas of their work. However, there has been little study as yet of the use of such technologies in real translation working environments. The author’s… read more