1st Edition
Contesting Epistemologies in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
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
- Processualizing process in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
- 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?
- "Tackling stillness through movement"; or constraining the extended mind. Cognitive-semiotic insights into Translation
- Latent variables in Translation and Interpreting Studies: Ontology, epistemology, and methodology
- Translation product and process data: A happy marriage or worlds apart?
- Looking back to move forward: Towards a situated, distributed, and extended account of expertise
- An enactivist-posthumanist perspective on the translation process
- Where does it hurt? Learning from the parallels between medicine and Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
- Towards a pluralist approach to translation theory development
Hanna Risku & Daniela Schlager
Piotr Blumczynski
Sandra L. Halverson & Haidee Kotze
Kobus Marais & Jani Marais
Christopher D. Mellinger & Thomas A. Hanson
Part II Converging epistemologies
Tatiana Serbina & Stella Neumann
Fabio Alves, Igor A. Lourenço da Silva
Michael Carl
Part III Pluralist epistemologies
Ricardo Muñoz & Christian Olalla Soler
Álvaro Marín García
Biography
Sandra L. Halverson is a professor of translation and professional communication at the University of Agder. Her research has centered on questions related to various areas of translation and interpreting studies and cognitive linguistics, and she has published both empirical and theoretical/conceptual work. Other long-term research interests are the epistemology of translation studies and research methodology. Professor Halverson is a member of the Translation Research, Empiricism and Cognition network (TREC) and INTERACT. She served as co-editor of Target for a period of eight years and currently serves on the editorial boards of several TIS journals. She was appointed CETRA Chair Professor for 2018.
Álvaro Marín García is an assistant professor at the School of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Valladolid (Spain). Previously, he has worked as a translaiton lecturer at the University of Essex (UK).He has also taught translation theory and practice at Kent State University (USA), where he completed his PhD in translation studies. His research interests are in cultural and intellectual history and its relation to translation practices, cognitve translation studies, and the epistemology of translation studies. He is currently investigating translation expertise from an emic perspective as well as new forms of theory development from a pluralistic methodology as applied to cognitive translation studies and translation history.
