scholarly journals Cognitive Translation Studies: Models and methods at the cutting edge

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kairong Xiao ◽  
Ricardo Muñoz Martín
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Theoretical Modelling ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Novel Approaches

Several indicators seem to suggest that, through nearly six decades of development, Cognitive Translation Studies (CTS) may be taking shape as an autonomous field of study. The main challenges ahead seem to be building sounder theoretical models and carrying out more rigorous methodological scrutiny. These two strands converge as central themes in the 11 contributions to this special issue of LANS-TTS. To provide a context for theoretical modelling and to frame critical discussions of the methods included in this volume, we first trace the present landscape of CTS and how it evolved so as to test Holmes’ criteria for disciplines: founding new channels of communication and sharing a “disciplinary utopia”. The contributions are arranged into four thematic categories as applied to CTS, namely, scientometrics, framing or reframing our field, the reliability and validity of popular research methods, and new methods or novel approaches. This article closes with a call to reflect on some fundamental issues on the next steps of humankind regarding communication, with ever-growing societal demands and expectations that call for refreshing our notions of translation in the context of increasingly diversified forms of multilectal mediated communication.

scholarly journals Why methods matter: Approaching multimodality in translation research

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiina Tuominen ◽  
Catalina Jiménez Hurtado ◽  
Anne Maria Ketola
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
Multimodal Data ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
Methodological Approaches

The study of multimodal phenomena calls upon translation scholars to cross disciplinary boundaries and adopt a range of theoretical and methodological approaches. The diversity of the multimodal landscape brings about research challenges that must be carefully addressed to ensure that these research efforts yield useful and credible results. This special issue is dedicated to a discussion on how to engage in multimodal translation research: how traditional research methods can be adapted and what kinds of novel approaches can be adopted or developed in order to deal with a diversity of multimodal data. In this introduction, we first discuss definitions of mode and multimodality and reflect on the nature of multimodality as a topic of research within Translation Studies. We then explain our rationale for dedicating the special issue to research methods and introduce three areas of multimodal translation research that, in our view, merit particular attention from a methodological point of view. Finally, we introduce the articles contained in this special issue.

A Multivariate Approach to Lexical Diversity in Constrained Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-194
Author(s):  
Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny ◽  
Ilmari Ivaska
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Multivariate Approach ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Lexical Diversity ◽  
Linear Mixed Effects ◽  
Word Repetition

Empirical Translation Studies have recently extended the scope of research to other forms of constrained and mediated communication, including bilingual communication, editing, and intralingual translation. Despite the diversity of factors accounted for so far, this new strand of research is yet to take the leap into intermodal comparisons. In this paper we look at Lexical Diversity (LD), which under different guises, has been studied both within Translation Studies (TS) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). LD refers to the rate of word repetition, and vocabulary size and depth, and previous research indicates that translated and non-native language tends to be less lexically diverse. There is, however, no study that would investigate both varieties within a unified methodological framework. The study reported here looks at LD in spoken and written modes of constrained and non-constrained language. In a two-step analysis involving Exploratory Factor Analysis and linear mixed-effects regression models we find interpretations to be least lexically diverse and written non-constrained texts to be most diverse. Speeches delivered impromptu are less diverse than those read out loud and the non-constrained texts are more sensitive to such delivery-related differences than the constrained ones.

scholarly journals Proceedings of the GDR Vertige 2019 annual meeting devoted to endolymphatic hydrops

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Christian Chabbert ◽  
Anne Charpiot
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Endolymphatic Hydrops ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Vestibular Function ◽  
Therapeutic Strategies ◽  
Vestibular Disorders ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Clinical Imaging ◽  
New Methods

The GDR Vertige is a federative research group gathering the different components of the French neuro-otology community. The annual meeting of the GDR Vertige is an opportunity for interactive exchanges between scientists, clinicians and industrialists, on basic issues related to vestibular function, as well as translational questions regarding the management of vestibular disorders. For its fifth edition, the annual meeting of the GDR Vertige, which took place in September 2019 in Marseille (France), was devoted to one of the most peculiar phenomena of neuro-otology: endolymphatic hydrops. For two days, international scientists and clinicians presented the most recent advances regarding the biophysical correlates of endolymphatic hydrops, the genetic and endocrine tableaux that favor its manifestation, new methods of clinical imaging, and current and upcoming therapeutic strategies to overcome the associated clinical manifestations. This special issue of the Journal of Vestibular Research aims at providing the proceedings of this meeting.

Romance and Latin approaches to word structure features

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo ◽  
Isabel Pujol Payet
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Word Structure ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Special Collection ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract The interest in morphology and its interaction with the other grammatical components has increased in the last twenty years, with new approaches coming into stage so as to get more accurate analyses of the processes involved in morphological construal. This special issue is a valuable contribution to this field of study. It gathers a selection of five papers from the Morphology and Syntax workshop (University of Girona, July 2017) which, on the basis of Romance and Latin phenomena, discuss word structure and its decomposition into hierarchies of features. Even though the papers share a compositional view of lexical items, they adopt different formal theoretical approaches to the lexicon-syntax interface, thus showing the benefit of bearing in mind the possibilities that each framework provides. This introductory paper serves as a guide for the readers of this special collection and offers an overview of the topics dealt in each contribution.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE METHODS IN IMPACT STUDIES

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (02) ◽  
pp. 123-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL LORZ ◽  
SUSAN MUELLER ◽  
THIERRY VOLERY
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Impact Studies ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽  
The Impact

The majority of studies that analyze the impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial attitudes, intentions, and venture activities report positive influences. However, several scholars have recently cast doubts about research methods and the generalizability of entrepreneurship education impact studies. In this study, we conducted a systematic literature review of the methods used in entrepreneurship education impact studies. Our results uncover significant methodological deficiencies and question the overwhelmingly positive impact of entrepreneurship education. Based on this evidence, we propose a series of recommendations to improve the reliability and validity of entrepreneurship education impact studies and we outline promising topics which are currently under-researched.

scholarly journals Editorial for the Special Issue “Microbial Communities in Cultural Heritage and Their Control”

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 11411
Author(s):  
Filomena De Leo ◽  
Valme Jurado
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Methods ◽  
And Control

This editorial focuses on the studies published within the present Special Issue presenting advances in the field of biodeterioration of cultural heritage caused by microbial communities with a particular focus on new methods for their elimination and control.

scholarly journals Rojo López, Ana María y Nicolás A. Campos Plaza (eds.) (2016). INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN TRANSLATION STUDIES. THEORETICAL MODELS, CREATIVE APPROACHES AND APPLIED METHODS

2017 ◽  
pp. 463-464
Author(s):  
Isabel Jiménez Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Translation Studies

Esta monografía colectiva, que lleva por título Interdisciplinarity in Translation Studies. Theoretical Models, Creative Approaches And Applied Methods supone una ventana abierta a las distintas formas de percibir la Traductología, siguiendo la terminología al uso de inspiración francófona, o los Estudios de Traducción, siguiendo la terminología al uso de inspiración anglófona.

Guest Editors' Introduction to Special Issue on Emerging Research in Business and Economics across Countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Carlos Trejo-Pech ◽  
John Manley
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
International Business ◽  
Special Issue

This introduction provides summaries of articles published in volume 17(2) of the Journal of International Business and Economy. The Fall 2016 issue is a special issue with a collection of five articles presented at the XV International Business and Economy Conference, held in Germany early in 2016. In this introduction, we present the relevance of each study, the research methods, and potential implications of the findings.

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