This book addresses a controversial issue regarding SL-TL transfer in the translation process, namely the question as to the dominant route in English-Chinese and Chinese-English professional consecutive interpretations, respectively: the form-based processing route or meaning-based processing route. It presents a corpus-assisted product study, in which the interpreting processing patterns of culture-specific items (CSIs) are analyzed. The study reveals that the dominant route in English vs. Chinese consecutive interpreting varies under different circumstances. Four factors are proposed to account for such differences: linguistic variables (e.g., grammatical complexity of the unit), type of CSI, language direction, and extra-linguistic variables (e.g., multilateral or bilateral settings). In summary, the book systematically introduces a corpus-assisted approach to translation process research, which will benefit all readers who are interested in translation process research but cannot employ neuroscientific measures.

Applies the corpus-assisted approach to translation/interpreting process research

Pursues a cross-disciplinary approach to translation and interpreting as bilingual processing

Offers empirical evidence on a central, controversial issue in translation studies literature

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Dr. Xiaodong Liu is Head of the Business English Department at the School of Foreign Studies, and Director of the Center for Studies of Translation and Cognition, Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology, China.

He received his Ph.D. in Translation Studies from the University of Macau, Macao (2018). His main research interests include translation process research, corpus-assisted translation studies, and translation teaching research. He has (co-)initiated numerous translation process research projects at various levels, e.g., Corpus-assisted Translation Process Research (HUHST Startup Research Fund) and Corpus-assisted Research on Neurocognitive Processing Routes (19C0971) supported by the Education Department of Hunan Province. He has published numerous articles on translation studies in national and international journals, such as Babel, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Across Languages and Cultures, T & I Review, Foreign Language Education, Chinese Science & Technology Translators Journal, and so on.

He is Member of the Macao Federation of Translators, and created and is Vice President of the Loudi Association of Translators and Interpreters.

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Acknowledgements Abstract Declaration List of Tables and Figures List of Abbreviations Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Purpose and Motivations of the Study 1.2 Research Background 1.2.1 General Background 1.2.2 Specific Background 1.3 Research Questions 1.4 Methodological Issues 1.5 Structure of the Book 1.6 Statement of Originality 1.7 Summary Chapter 2. Interpreting Process 2.1 Psycholinguistic View 2.1.1 Theoretical Models 2.1.2 Empirical Studies 2.2 Neuro-physiological View 2.3 Interpreting Studies View 2.4 Summary Chapter 3. An Integrated Neurocognitive Theory of Translating and Interpreting3.1 An Integrated Perspective to Language Processing 3.1.1 Subsystems of Language Processing 3.1.2 The Interplay of Memory and Computation 3.1.3 Neurocognitive Bilingual Processing and Control 3.1.4 Translating and Interpreting as Bilingual Processing 3.2 Neurocognitive Processing Routes for Translation and Interpreting 3.2.1 Recoding via Meaning-based Processing 3.2.2 Recoding via Form-based Processing 3.2.3 Recoding via Memory-pairing 3.3 Summary Chapter 4. The Corpus-assisted Approach to Translation Process Research4.1 Corpus-assisted Research on Translation Processes4.2 Corpus-assisted Approach Employed in the Previous Studies 4.2.1 Challenges of the Corpus-assisted Approach 4.2.2 Key Concepts of the Corpus-assisted Approach 4.3 Corpus-assisted Approach Employed in the Current Study 4.4 Summary Chapter 5 Source and Target Material 5.1 Source Speeches and Target Deliveries 5.2 Source Profiling5.3 Target Profiling 5.4 Summary Chapter 6. A Parallel Bilingual CI Corpus 6.1 Transcription of Video-recordings6.1.1 Transcription 6.1.2 Removing Noise from the Corpus 6.2 Corpus Design 6.2.1 Time Span 6.2.2 Corpus Size 6.3 Processing Tools 6.3.1 EditPlus 6.3.2 CorpusWordParser 6.3.3 ABBYY Aligner 6.3.4 Microsoft Excel 6.3.5 ParaConc6.4 Segmentation and Alignment6.5 Annotation 6.5.1 Annotation Scheme for the STs and TTs 6.5.2 Using Word Macros for Tagging 6.6 Concordance Search and Query 6.6.1 Concordance Search Steps 6.6.2 ParaConc Search Example 6.7 Summary Chapter 7 Example Analyses 7.1 Chinese-English Interpreting 7.1.1 Interpreting Proper Names7.1.2 Interpreting Metaphors 7.1.3 Interpreting Classic Quotations 7.1.4 Interpreting Idiomatic Expressions 7.2 English-Chinese Interpreting 7.2.1 Interpreting Proper Names7.2.2 Interpreting Metaphors 7.2.3 Interpreting Idiomatic Expressions 7.2.4 Interpreting Classic Quotations 7.3 Summary Chapter 8. Interpreting Patterns 8.1 A Roadmap of the CSIs Interpreting Patterns 8.2 Patterns of PNs: Lexical vs. Phrasal vs. Clausal 8.2.1 Interpreting Proper Names: C-E Direction 8.2.2 Interpreting Proper Names: E-C Direction 8.3 Patterns of the CSIs in C-E Conferences vs. C-E Talks 8.3.1 Interpreting Proper Names 8.3.2 Interpreting Metaphors 8.3.3 Interpreting Idiomatic Expressions 8.3.4 Interpreting Classic Quotations 8.4 Patterns of the CSIs in C-E vs E-C Language Directions8.4.1 Interpreting Proper Names 8.4.2 Interpreting Metaphors 8.4.3 Interpreting Idiomatic Expressions 8.4.4 Interpreting Classic Quotations 8.5 Summary Chapter 9. A Theoretical Account of the Interpreting Patterns9.1 Grammatical Unit 9.2 Source Categories 9.3 Settings 9.4 Language Direction9.5 General Discussions 9.6 Summary Chapter 10 Research Questions Revisited 10.1 Question One: How Are the Neurocognitive Processing Routes reflected in English vs Chinese consecutive interpreting? 10.2 Question Two: Which route dominates English vs Chinese consecutive interpreting? 10.3 Question Three: What affects the adoption of the dominant route? 10.4 The Controversy 10.5 Summary Chapter 11 Conclusions and Future Perspectives 11.1 Conclusions from the Research 11.2 Limitations of this Study and Suggestions for Future Research References Appendix I Information of the Source Materials and Target Deliveries Appendix II Examples for Tagging Appendix III Individual Interpreting Patterns Appendix IIII Segments Randomly Sampled