Empirical Studies of Translation and Interpreting by Wang, Caiwen; Zheng, Binghan;

Short description:

This edited book is a collection of the latest empirical studies of translation and interpreting (T&I) from the post-structuralist perspective. The contributors are professors, readers, senior lecturers, lecturers and research students from an international context.

Long description:

This edited book is a collection of the latest empirical studies of translation and interpreting (T&I) from the post-structuralist perspective. The contributors are professors, readers, senior lecturers, lecturers, and research students from an international context. The contributions are characterised by five themes:

• Intervention in T&I








• Process of T&I








• Product of T&I








• T&I and technology








• T&I education

These up-to-date topics are reflective of the shift in attitudes that is being witnessed as a new generation of translation scholars rejects the subjective assertions of previous generations, in favour of an altogether more rigorous approach. The book will notably contribute to the development of T&I and enhance our knowledge of the areas. It will be a useful reference for academics, postgraduate research students, and professional translators and interpreters. The book will also play a role in proposing practical and empirically based ways of training for universities and the industry, so as to overcome traditional barriers to translation and interpreting learning. The book will additionally provide reference material for relevant professional bodies.

"On the whole, this book is useful to educators, learners, and researchers, enabling them to capture the latest findings of empirical post-structuralist T&I studies, master its research paradigms and designs, and understand the importance of post-structuralism in terms of interpreter education, practice, technological advances, and social development." - Tianyuan Zhao and Lin Shen, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China, Interpreting and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal

"The most outstanding merit of [this collection] lies in the various feasible methodologies employed to conduct empirically-based translation studies...the individual studies in this collection will contribute to our understanding of post-structuralistapproach to T&I in terms of theory as well as practice..." - Wenbo Shang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, Linguistica Antverpiensia, New Series – Themes in Translation Studies

"In a nutshell, this volume indeed plays an instrumental role in guiding the T&I community to better grasp the future directions of empiricalness under the post-structuralist perspective." - Bihao Li, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Guangzhou, China, International Journal of Chinese and English Translation & Interpreting

Table of Contents:

Contents

Part I Intervention in T&I

1 Biopolitics, Complicity and Community in Domestic Abuse Support Settings:

Implications for Interpreter Guidance

2 Dialogue Interpreting and Person-centred Care in a Clinical Mental Healthcare Setting

Part II Process of T&I

3 Effect of Perceived Translation Difficulty on the Allocation of Cognitive Resources between Translating and Consultation: An Eye-tracking and Screen-recording Study

4 Navigating the Web: A Study on Professional Translators’ Behaviour

5 Conference Interpreting in Diplomatic Settings: An Integrated Corpus Critical Discourse Analysis

6 A Creative Approach for Subtitling Humour: A Case Study of the Political Comedy Veep

7 Explicitations in Political Texts and the Translator’s Rationale

8 A Corpus-Driven Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Interpreted Discourses in Political Settings

9 Measuring the Impact of Automatic Speech Recognition on Number Rendition in Simultaneous Interpreting

10 Machine Translation Problems at Discourse Level: Pro-drop Language and Large-context Machine Translation

11 Taxing Brings Benefits: The Interpreter Advantage in Emotional Regulation

12 Flipped Classrooms and Translation Technology Teaching: A Case Study

13 An Empirical Study on Distance Interpreter Training in China Before the COVID-19 Pandemic—A Mixed-methods Approach