Full Description
This dynamic collection synthesizes and critically reflects on epistemological challenges and developments within Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies, problematizing a range of issues. These critical essays provide a means of encouraging further development by grounding new theories, stances, and best practices.
The volume is a clear marker of a maturing discipline, as decades of empirical study and methodological innovation provide the backdrop for critique and debate. The volume exemplifies tendencies toward convergence and difference, while at the same time pushing against disciplinary boundaries and structures. Constructs such as expertise and process are explored, and different theories of cognition are brought to the table. A number of chapters consider what it might mean for translation to be a form of situated, or 4EA cognition, while others query interdisciplinary relationships of foundational importance to the field. Issues of methodology are also addressed in terms of their underlying philosophical assumptions and implications.
This book will be of interest to scholars working at the intersection of translation and cognition, in such fields as translation studies, cognitive science, psycholinguistics, semiotics, and philosophy of science.
Contents
Introduction: Scientific maturity and epistemological reflection in cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Álvaro Marín García & Sandra L. Halverson
Part I Challenging epistemologies
Epistemologies of translation expertise: Notions in research and praxis
Hanna Risku & Daniela Schlager
Processualizing process in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Piotr Blumczynski
Sociocognitive constructs in Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS): Do we really need concepts like norms and risk when we have a comprehensive usage-based theory of language?
Sandra L. Halverson & Haidee Kotze
"Tackling stillness through movement"; or constraining the extended mind. Cognitive-semiotic insights into Translation
Kobus Marais & Jani Marais
Latent variables in Translation and Interpreting Studies: Ontology, epistemology, and methodology
Christopher D. Mellinger & Thomas A. Hanson
Part II Converging epistemologies
Translation product and process data: A happy marriage or worlds apart?
Tatiana Serbina & Stella Neumann
Looking back to move forward: Towards a situated, distributed, and extended account of expertise
Fabio Alves, Igor A. Lourenço da Silva
An enactivist-posthumanist perspective on the translation process
Michael Carl
Part III Pluralist epistemologies
Where does it hurt? Learning from the parallels between medicine and Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Ricardo Muñoz & Christian Olalla Soler
Towards a pluralist approach to translation theory development
Álvaro Marín García
