Child and adult readers’ processing of foreign elements in translated South African picturebooks
An eye-tracking study
Haidee Kruger | School of Languages, North-West University Vaal Triangle Campus
The tension between domesticating and foreignising translation strategies is particularly strongly felt in the translation of children’s literature, and has been a key issue in many studies of such literature. However, despite the pervasiveness of the concepts, there is little existing empirical research investigating how child (and adult) readers of translated children’s books process and respond to for eignised elements in translation. This means that scholars’ arguments in favour of either domestication or foreignisation in the translation of children’s literature are often based on intuition and personal experience, with no substantial empirical basis. This article presents the findings of an experiment undertaken to investigate Afrikaans child and adult readers’ processing of and responses to potentially linguistically and culturally foreign textual elements in translated children’s picturebooks, against the background of postcolonial/neocolonial cultural and linguistic hybridity in South Africa. The paper reports the results relating to two of the research questions informing the study:
- Does the use of foreignised elements in translated children’s picturebooks have any significant effect on the cognitive effort involved in reading for child and adult readers?
- Is the comprehension of child and adult readers affected by the use of for eignised elements in translated children’s picturebooks?
Keywords: translation, children’s literature, domestication, foreignisation, eyetracking, reading, empirical translation studies, comprehension, child readers
Article outline
- 1.Introduction: Translation strategies and the reception of translations
- 2.Measuring eye movements in reading: Some basic concepts
- 3.Experimental design and data collection
- 3.1Sampling
- 3.2Stimulus material
- 3.3Apparatus
- 3.4Procedure
- 3.5Data processing
- 3.5.1Eye-tracking measures
- 3.5.2Comprehension measures
- 4.Findings
- 4.1Eye-tracking data
- 4.1.1AOI snoepie/spaza (Text A)
- 4.1.2AOI dorpie/township (Text A)
- 4.1.3AOI skoert/hamba (Text B)
- 4.1.4AOI ouma/gogo (Text B)
- 4.2Comprehension
- 4.2.1Comprehension: Text A
- 4.2.2Comprehension: Text B
- 4.3The role of illustrations
- 4.1Eye-tracking data
- 5.Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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Published online: 17 May 2013
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.25.2.03kru
https://doi.org/10.1075/target.25.2.03kru
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