Yu Weng
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yu Weng is involved.
Articles
2026 Translating in the zone: The joint impact of positive emotions and flow on behavioral and cognitive dynamics in translation Target: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates how positive emotions and flow interact to influence translators’ cognitive processing patterns. Thirty-two translators completed two Chinese–English translation tasks following positive or neutral emotional priming, with their eye movements recorded throughout. While… read more
2022 Time pressure in translation: Psychological and physiological measures Target 34:4, pp. 602–627 | Article
Translators may experience significant psychological and physiological responses to time pressure. This study examines such responses with the aim of identifying valid indicators of time pressure in written translation. Forty-five postgraduates participated in the study, translating three… read more
Metadiscourse under linguistic constraint: Variation across interpreted, L2, and L1 English International Journal of Corpus Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
This study investigates whether distinct linguistic strategies arise from cognitive and linguistic constraints by comparing interpreted English produced by second-language (L2) professional interpreters, L2 spontaneous speech, and first-language (L1) English speech as a reference. Framed within… read more