Article published in:
Interdisciplinarity in Translation and Interpreting Process ResearchEdited by Maureen Ehrensberger-Dow, Susanne Göpferich and Sharon O'Brien
[Target 25:1] 2013
► pp. 46–60
Towards a new linguistic-cognitive orientation in translation studies
Juliane House | University of Hamburg, Germany
A new linguistic-cognitive orientation in translation studies is important today because it can complement the current strong wave of socially and culturally oriented research into and around translation. For balance, it is also necessary and insightful to describe and explain how strategies of comprehending, decisionmaking and re-verbalisation come about in a translator’s bilingual mind. In this paper I sketch some ideas about such a new linguistic-cognitive approach. I first review introspective and retrospective studies and behavioural experiments. Secondly, I assess the value of neuro-linguistic studies for translation. Thirdly, I suggest a new combination of a translation theory and a neuro-functional theory of bilingualism.
Keywords: introspection, consciousness, neuro-linguistic studies, neurolinguistic theory of bilingualism, systemic-functional translation theory, pragmatics, overt and covert translation
Article outline
- 1.A plea for a new linguistic-cognitive orientation in translation studies
- 2.Rationale for a new linguistic-cognitive orientation
- 3.Introspective and retrospective translation process studies: how valid and reliable are their outcomes?
- 4.Behavioural experiments on the translation process: how valid, reliable and insightful are their outcomes?
- 5.Bilingual neuro-imaging studies: how useful and relevant are they for translation studies?
- 6.A neuro-linguistic theory of the functioning of two languages in the brain
- 7.Conclusion
-
References
Published online: 04 March 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.25.1.05hou
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.25.1.05hou
References
Abutalebi, Jubin
Alves, Fabio, Adriana Pagano, Stella Neumann, Erich Steiner, and Silvia Hansen-Schirra
Aue, Tatjana, Leah Lavelle, and John Cacioppo
Benjamin, Walter
Cohen, Michael, and Daniel Dennett
Cook, Vivian, and Benedetta Bassetti
Dragsted, Barbara
Göpferich, Susanne
Göpferich, Susanne, and Riitta Jääskeläinen
de Groot, Annette
Halverson, Sandra
Hansen, Gyde
Hermans, Theo
Hernandez, Arturo
House, Juliane, and Shoshana Blum-Kulka
Jääskeläinen, Riitta
Jakobsen, Arnt Lykke
Klein, Denise, Robert Zatorre, Jen-Kai Chen, Brenda Milner, Joelle Crane, Pascal Belin, and Marc Bouffard
Königs, Frank
Malmkjaer, Kirsten
Nosek, Brian, Carlee Hawkins, and Rebecca Frasier
Price, Cathy, David Green, and Roswitha von Studnitz
Reiss, Katharina, and Hans Vermeer
Suhler, Christopher, and Patricia Churchland
Tirkkonen-Condit, Sonja
Cited by
Cited by 19 other publications
No author info given
No author info given
Boyden, Michael
Cohen, Imogen
Fotheringham, Christopher
House, Juliane
Kruger, Haidee
Li, Long
Li, Long
Li, Long & Xi Li
Olalla-Soler, Christian
Vandevoorde, Lore, Els Lefever, Koen Plevoets & Gert De Sutter
Yang, Zhihong & Defeng Li
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 23 april 2022. 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.