Empathy
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Derived from Ancient Greek ἐμπάθεια, the term “empathy” found its way into English via German in the early twentieth century (Stueber 2008/2019), where it had come to mean “feeling into”. In everyday English, this is likely the meaning that would come to mind first. More formal definitions often distinguish an affective and a cognitive component (Stueber 2008/2019).
References
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Merlini, Raffaela
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.Stueber, Karsten
2008/2019 “Empathy.” In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. by Edward N. Zalta. 2nd ed. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empathy/
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.Further essential reading
Chica Núñez, Antonio Javier
2018 “Methodological Contributions of Social Neuroscience to the Study of the Multimodality of Emotions in Translation.” Linguistica Antverpiensa 17: 246–259. https://lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LANS-TTS/article/view/486.
Muñoz-Miquel, Ana
2019 “Empathy, Emotions and Patient-Centredness: A Case Study on Communication Strategies.” Hermes – Journal of Language and Communication in Business 59: 71–89.
Szpak, Karina S., Fabio Alves and Augusto Buchweitz
2020 “Perspective Taking in Translation: In Search of Neural Correlates of Representing and Attributing Mental States to Others.” In Multilingual Mediated Communication and Cognition, ed. by Ricardo Muñoz Martín, and Sandra L. Halverson, 133 154. London: Routledge.
Witte, Heidrun
2020 “Förderung von Perspektivenübernahme und Zielrezipientenorientierung im Translationsunterricht (Deutsch – Spanisch): Kinderliterarische Ausgangstexte als didaktisches Instrument.” Lebende Sprachen 65 (1): 156–180.