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Eye Tracking Translation Styles in Chinese-English Sight Translation.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Eye Tracking Translation Styles in Chinese-English Sight Translation./
Author:	Su, Wenchao.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	253 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International81-10A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27833871
ISBN:	9798607313241

Eye Tracking Translation Styles in Chinese-English Sight Translation.
Su, Wenchao.

Eye Tracking Translation Styles in Chinese-English Sight Translation. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 253 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 81-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Macau, 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Sight translation is an important interpreting mode in professional and pedagogical scenarios (De Laet, 2012). It is also a highly informative modality for probing into the moment-to-moment cognitive processing during language transfer (Shreve, Lacruz, & Angelone, 2010). However, interpreters' behaviors and the underlying cognitive processes in sight translation are still under-explored. This study attempted to examine their behaviors, or translation styles of novice and professional interpreters when performing sight translation from Chinese into English, and to identify translation styles shared or specific to each group, using eye-tracking measures and indicators of interpreting outputs.It is found that globally, interpreters demonstrated different gaze behaviors in preparation and in actual sight translation, but overall, they showed a similar trend in their gaze behavior patterns across the two stages, particularly in fixation duration and pupil dilation. Interpreters displayed an eye-voice span that is similar to the ear-voice span in simultaneous interpreting. Locally, interpreters had long fixations on words with Chinese features and four-character expressions in preparation, which were anticipated to be the primary cause of difficulty. They continued to exhibit relatively long fixations on around 30% of potential problems in actual sight translation. Interpreters' reading-speech coordination was affected by translation problems.Different behavioral styles of sight translation were also identified. Compared to novices, professionals' problem-solving behaviors were more skillful in preparation and in actual sight translation. Professionals read larger context than novices without sacrificing output fluency, and they seemed to rely more on their working memory than novices right before oral rendition.Overall, this study reveals that novice and professional interpreters shared some similar behaviors in sight translation, but they displayed different behaviors, especially in problem-solving behaviors and reading-speech coordination. Language-pair specificity had an effect on gaze behaviors in sight translation. Methodologically, this study demonstrates that eye tracking can be used as a reliable method to identify translation styles. This study contributes to the understanding of eye-movement behaviors and the cognitive processes in sight translation and provides empirical evidence to confirm our intuitive understandings of the differences between novice and professional interpreters.

ISBN: 9798607313241Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.
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Sight translation

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