Tatiana Serbina
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tatiana Serbina plays a role.
2019 Shorter than a text, longer than a sentence: Source text length for ecologically valid translation experiments Target 31:1, pp. 98–124 | Article
This paper investigates what effect the length of the source text has both on the translation process and on the translation product. In an eye-tracking and keystroke logging experiment, we compared three conditions, namely full texts, three-sentence sequences and single sentences as source… read more
2018 Processing of grammatical metaphor: Insights from controlled translation and reading experiments Translation, Cognition & Behavior 1:2, pp. 195–220 | Article
This paper investigates cognitive effort invested in the translation and reading of grammatical metaphor. It is based on the results of two experiments conducted using the methods of keylogging and eyetracking. To test differences in processing, we devised a number of metaphorical and congruent… read more
2018 Lexical chains and topic continuity in the register of popular scientific writing: German-English contrasts Anglo-German Discourse Crossings and Contrasts, Jaworska, Sylvia and Torsten Leuschner (eds.), pp. 8–25 | Article
This article presents a corpus study of lexical chains in the register of popular scientific writing, based on the English and German original texts included in the CroCo Corpus. This register is characterized by patterns resulting from the combination of accessible knowledge and scientific… read more
2013 Construction shifts in translations: A corpus-based study Constructions and Frames 5:2, pp. 168–191 | Article
In the present paper the phenomenon of translation shifts is discussed within the theoretical framework of Construction Grammar. It is suggested that viewing linguistic structures of various sizes and levels of abstractness as constructions allows us to better grasp the complexities of the… read more