1st Edition

Multilingual Mediated Communication and Cognition

Edited By Ricardo Muñoz Martín, Sandra L. Halverson Copyright 2021
184 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection provides a snapshot of cutting-edge research in the rapidly developing area of cognitive approaches to multilingual mediated communication. The chapters cover important trends in current work, including: the increasing interaction between translation and interpreting research, the emergence of neuroscientific theories and methods, the role of emotion in translation processes, and... Read more

List of contributors

The times, they are a’changin’: multilingual mediated communication and cognition

Sandra L. Halverson & Ricardo Muñoz Martín

1. Imported load in simultaneous interpreting: an assessment

Koen Plevoets & Bart Defrancq

2. Emotional experts: influences of emotion on the allocation of cognitive resources during translation

Caroline Lehr & Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund

3. Voice onset time and rhythm transfer in simultaneous interpreting

Katarzyna Stachowiak-Szymczak

4. Can translators be judged by their intelligence? A study on the impact of cognitive abilities on translation performance

Ana María Rojo López & Carmen María Alarcón Alarcón

5. Perspective taking in translation: in search of neural correlates of representing and attributing mental states to others

Karina S. Szpak, Fabio Alves & Augusto Buchweitz

6. Multisensory integration in audiovisual translation

Stephen Doherty

Index

Biography

Ricardo Muñoz Martín is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Bologna, where he directs the Laboratory for Multilectal Mediated Communication and Cognition (MC2 Lab). His research interests lie at the interface of communication and 4EA cognition. Muñoz is the editor of Translation, Cognition & Behavior and a member of TREC.

Sandra L. Halverson is Full Professor of Translation and LSP at Agder University. Her research has dealt with various areas of translation studies and cognitive linguistics, and she served as co-editor of Target for eight years and was appointed CETRA Chair Professor for 2018. Halverson is an external associate of the MC2 Lab and a member of TREC.