scholarly journals Experience and Emotion in Empirical Translation Research with Think-Aloud and Retrospection

2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 511-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gyde Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Brain Research ◽  
Empirical Process ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
Modern Psychology ◽  
Concurrent Verbalization ◽  
Process Oriented

Abstract In empirical process-oriented translation research with different kinds of introspection, two important questions are raised repeatedly: 1. Does concurrent verbalization, like Think-aloud, have an influence on the translation process and 2. What do we actually learn from introspective methods like think-aloud and retrospection? Based on ideas from modern psychology and brain research, it is argued that think-aloud must have an impact on the translation process. Furthermore, it is suggested that it is not only spontaneous, unmodified thoughts about the actual task that are verbalized, but also memories, reflections, justifications, explanations, emotions and experiences.

Affective and Attitudinal Factors in Translation Processes1

Target ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johanna Laukkanen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
Affective Dimension ◽  
Affective Factors ◽  
Attitudinal Factors ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Process Oriented

Abstract The role of affective and attitudinal factors in translation has lately attracted increasing attention within process-oriented translation research. Think-aloud studies show that affective factors play an important part in the decision-making processes of translation. In the present TAP study the affective dimension of translation was researched via evaluative utterances produced by the subject.

Think-aloud protocols in translation research

Target ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Bernardini
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Experimental Methodology ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Think Aloud Protocols ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Experimental Validity ◽  
Process Oriented

Over the last decade, Think-aloud Protocols (TAPs) have been used extensively in process-oriented Translation Studies (TS). The serious questions regarding the experimental validity of this research methodology when applied to translation have nonetheless often remained unspoken. This paper surveys the breakthroughs as well as the limits of the growing body of literature dealing with TAPs in TS, points at the necessity to take issues of experimental, theoretical and environmental validity more seriously, and offers suggestions for improvements. The claim is that the risks involved in the adoption of a lax experimental methodology in TAP studies, often underestimated in the past, may invalidate not only the results obtained in the single projects, but, crucially, the method as a whole.

scholarly journals Anleitungen rezipieren, Anleitungen produzieren: Empirische Befunde zu kognitiven Prozessen bei Übersetzungsnovizen und Übersetzungsprofis

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (44) ◽  
pp. 169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Göpferich
Keyword(s):  
Think Aloud ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Log Files ◽  
External Reference ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
Multi Method Approach ◽  
Problem Awareness ◽  
Operating Instructions

The article presents results from the research project TransComp, a process-oriented longitudinal study which investigates the development of translation competence in 12 students of translation over a period of three years and compares it with that of 10 professional translators. The article focuses on the translation products and processes of six novices and five professional translators who had to translate operating instructions from English (their L2) into German (their L1). During the translation process, the participants had to think aloud. They were allowed to use any external reference resources they wished. Their think-aloud and all their activities on the computer were screen-recorded using CamtasiaStudio. In addition, their writing processes were logged using the keystroke-logging software Translog. Immediately after the experiments, they were asked to complete a questionnaire. The data gained in this multi-method approach are analyzed both from a product-oriented and from a process-oriented perspective. For the product-oriented analyses, an error classification was developed that combines a linguistic characterization of the mistakes with a functional approach of determining how detrimental these are with regard to the target text function. The process-oriented analyses are based on the subjects’ think-aloud, their activities recorded with CamtasiaStudio, their questionnaires and their log files. These process data are analyzed to determine the subjects’ problem awareness and their problem-solving competence. Based on the findings, implications for translation pedagogy and text production didactics are discussed.

Translator and translation research: general descriptions of concepts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darian Jancowicz-Pitel
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Third ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Translation Errors ◽  
Multiple Languages

The presented paper aimed for exploring the translation process, a translator or interpreter needs equipment or tools so that the objectives of a translation can be achieved. If an interpreter needs a pencil, paper, headphones, and a mic, then an interpreter needs even more tools. The tools required include conventional and modern tools. Meanwhile, the approach needed in research on translation is qualitative and quantitative, depending on the research objectives. If you want to find a correlation between a translator's translation experience with the quality or type of translation errors, a quantitative method is needed. Also, this method is very appropriate to be used in research in the scope of teaching translation, for example from the student's point of view, their level of intelligence regarding the quality or translation errors. While the next method is used if the research contains translation errors, procedures, etc., it is more appropriate to use qualitative methods. Seeing this fact, these part-time translators can switch to the third type of translator, namely free translators. This is because there is an awareness that they can live by translation. These translators set up their translation efforts that involve multiple languages.

Broadening the scope of error categories in translation assessment through screen recording

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-157
Author(s):  
Erik Angelone
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
Translation Product ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Recording Technology ◽  
Think Aloud Protocols ◽  
Error Annotation ◽  
Recording Analysis ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
Made In

Abstract To date, the assessment of student translations has been largely based on configurations of error categories that address some facet of the translation product. Focal points of such product-oriented error annotation include language mechanics (punctuation, grammar, lexis and syntax, for example) and various kinds of transfer errors. In recent years, screen recording technology has opened new doors for empirically informing translation assessment from a more process-oriented perspective (Massey and Ehrensberger-Dow, 2014; Angelone, 2019). Screen recording holds particular promise when tracing errors documented in the product back to potential underlying triggers in the form of processes that co-occur on screen in their presence. Assessor observations made during screen recording analysis can give shape to process-oriented error categories that parallel and complement product-oriented categories. This paper proposes a series of empirically informed, process-oriented error categories that can be used for assessing translations in contexts where screen recordings are applied as a diagnostic tool. The categories are based on lexical and semantic patterns derived from a corpus-based analysis of think-aloud protocols documenting articulations made by assessors when commenting on errors made in student translations while watching screen recordings of their work. It is hoped that these process-oriented error categories will contribute to a more robust means by which to assess and classify errors in translation.

scholarly journals THE IMAGE OF A TIGER IN KOREAN MAGIC TALES AND IMITATIVE WORDS IN UZBEK TRANSLATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 02 (03) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
Mukaddashon Nazarboy kizi Taylanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
Problems Of Translation

The article deals with the methods and problems of translation of imitative words in fairy tales, which are a product of folklore. At the same time, the imitation of the sound of a tiger in Korean fairy tales is analyzed. It is known that the goal of translation research is to organize the translation process in a certain direction, which is carried out by talented translators who translate from different languages, literature of different genres. It is important that the reader is provided with an alternative. It also requires an analysis of the diversity of fauna in fairy tales, the importance of characters in Uzbek and Korean fairy tales, and participation.

Legal meta-comments in the think-aloud protocols of legal translators and lawyers

Target ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Griebel
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Think Aloud ◽  
Source Text ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Legal Translation ◽  
Think Aloud Protocols

Abstract In order to ensure successful subprocesses within the overall legal translation process, a correct and comprehensive understanding of the source text is crucial. Legal translators must be able to grasp all the legal, linguistic, communicative, and situational dimensions of the text. The focus of this study is on the cognitive processes involved in the first reading phase of the legal translation process and, in particular, on the question of whether legal translators and lawyers have different text reception processes. By analysing the think-aloud protocols recorded in a mixed-methods study, legal meta-comments (LMCs) from translators and lawyers are examined and compared. The results suggest that the two groups approach the text from different angles, which leads to some suggestions for further developing the training of legal translators.

Is There a Special Kind of “Reading” for Translation?

Target ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory M. Shreve ◽  
Christina Schäffner ◽  
Joseph H. Danks ◽  
Jennifer Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Mental Representation ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Translation Process ◽  
Significant Variability ◽  
Text Segment ◽  
Process Oriented ◽  
The Way

Abstract The role of reading in translation is rarely discussed in the literature. Translation has mainly been discussed within a product-oriented framework. The more process-oriented approaches of recent years have taken notice of reading as a component activity of the translation process. However, few empirical studies have been completed which address the role of reading in translation. The way a person reads, and the result of that reading (some sort of mental representation of the text or text segment), will depend on the reader's purposes and motivations. The present empirical study indicates that while the translator's reading of a text may be to some extent more thorough and deliberate than that of an ordinary reader, it is not likely to be markedly so. The study also indicates a significant variability in the way translators "read for translation". This suggests the existence of alternate strategies in this kind of reading.

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