The past decade has witnessed new developments in translation studies which have shifted its focus to the investigation of translators’ cognitive processes and the interaction between translation, power and politics. As Snell-Hornby (2006, 115) argues, they can be summarized in terms of two “turns”: empirical studies from within versus technology and globalization from without. Being informed by a wealth of methods, research on the translation process tries to unpack the complexities of the translator’s ‘black box’ and to unveil what is going on in the translator’s mind. The book under review, Methods and Strategies of Process Research, is clearly an encouraging step in this direction.

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Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson

1980 Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mees, Inger M., Fabio Alves, and Susanne Göpferich eds

2010 Methodology, Technology and Innovation in Translation Process Research. Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur.

Shreve, George, and Erik Angelone

2010 “Translation and Cognition: Recent Developments.” In Translation and Cognition, ed. by George Shreve, and Erik Angelone, 1-13. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Snell-Hornby, Mary

2006 The Turns of Translation Studies: New Paradigms or Shifting Viewpoints? Amsterdam: John Benjamins.