An Eye-Tracking Study of Equivalent Effect in Translation

The Reader Experience of Literary Style
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-55768-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting

This book provides a detailed example of an eye-tracking method for comparing the reading experience of a literary source text readers with readers of a translation at stylistically marked points. Drawing on principles, methods and inspiration from fields including translation studies, cognitive psychology, and language and literary studies, the author proposes an empirical method to investigate the notion of stylistic foregrounding, with 'style' understood as the distinctive manner of expression in a particular text. The book employs Raymond Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro (1959) and its English translation Zazie in the Metro (1960) as a case study to demonstrate the proposed methods. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of translation studies, as well as those interested in literary reception, stylistics and related fields.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Walker, Callum

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. The Cognitive Paradigm in Translation Studies.- 3. Style, Stylistics and the Literary Experience.- 4. The Psychology of Reading.- 5. Translating the Cognitive Experience.- 6. Eye-Tracking the Reader Experience.- 7. Case Study: Zazie dans le métro.- 8. Towards an Empirical Study of Literary Translation or Cognitive Translation Reception Studies.

Über Autor(innen)

Callum Walker is a lecturer in translation technology at the University of Leeds and an honorary research fellow at University College London. His research focuses on how biometric methods can be employed to gauge stylistic and phenomenological equivalence between a source text and its translation, with a particular focus on language varieties.