Translation and Interpreting as Social Interaction: Affect, Behavior and Cognition

✍ Scribed by Claire Y. Shih; Caiwen Wang

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Adopting the tripartite theory of social psychology as its theoretical framework, this book advocates that the three components of social interaction – affect, behaviour, and cognition – underpin the daily activities of translators and interpreters. In particular, it argues that the affect or emotion of translators and interpreters should not be overlooked or treated as a separate entity, but as a crucial link between their mental process (cognition) and physical process (behaviour). This central theme of the intertwining nature of the affect, behaviour and cognition of translators and interpreters is examined theoretically, empirically, and methodologically with contributions from around the world, featuring literary translation, translator training, and interpreters' practice. It is a timely contribution to the field of Translation Process Research where affect is increasingly recognised as playing a key role in translation and interpreting phenomena.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Affect and Emotion in Translation Process Research
Chapter 2: Translation and Affect and the Notion of a “Center of Attention”
Chapter 3: Covert Self-talk as a Tool for Dialogue Interpreters
Chapter 4: The Self-Reported Emotional Struggles by Interpreters in the British Judicial System
Chapter 5: Seeing Omissions from Inside the Interpreter’s Mind
Chapter 6: Interpreting as Communicative and Sociocultural Interaction
Chapter 7: Investigating Sight Translation via Eye Tracking
Chapter 8: Conceptual Variations in Legal Translation between “Right” and “權利”
Chapter 9: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Discursive Elements in Metaphor Translation
Chapter 10: Human-Machine Symbiosis to Enhance Overall Understanding
Contributors
Index