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1 - What We Can Know about Translation and How We Can Come to Know It

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2025

Kirsten Malmkjær
Kirsten Malmkjær
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University of Leicester
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Theories about translation and about translation equivalence that have held sway over time are discussed, and corpus exploration is introduced and practised. Methods for investigating the cognitive processes involved in translating include reports by translators themselves about their cognitive activity, but also methods that allow researchers to track translators’ behaviour – in particular their eye movements and gaze and their use of the keyboard when typing their translations. Methods for tracking brain activity during translating are introduced and explained, and the influence of emotion, a relatively recent interest in the discipline, is highlighted. Influential figures in the establishment of translation studies as an independent discipline are introduced.

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human and machine-aided empirical investigations of translationequivalenceshiftscollocationskoposfeatures of translated textswell-known scholars
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Introducing Translation , pp. 4 - 26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Hinchliffe, I., Oliver, T. and Schwartz, R. (eds. and compilers). (2014). 101 Things a Translator Needs to Know. WLF Think Tank. United Kingdom: WFL 101 Publishing.Google Scholar
Li, D., Lei, V. L. C. and He, Y. (eds.) (2019). Researching Cognitive Processes of Translation. Singapore: Springer.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Meylaerts, R. and Marais, K. (eds.) (2023). The Routledge Handbook of Translation Theory and Concepts. Oxford: Routledge.Google Scholar

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