13 May 2021 12:30–14:30 CLOSING SESSION The making of translation experts 12:30-13:00 Expertise is of great interest both for professionals and trainers in all fields, but how can we define expert behaviors? To answer this question, in this talk I will discuss the main factors conducing to expertise acquisition, paying special attention to its development in language mediation settings Read More…
15 April 2021 12:30–14:00 Text complexity and translation difficulty Task difficulty has a direct impact on human performance. In translation, difficulties are caused by translation factors (i.e., text difficulty and translation-specific difficulty), translator factor (i.e., levels of translation expertise), and environmental factors (e.g., translation tools). In this talk, I will review empiRead More…
18 March 2021 12:30–14:00 Not every translation decision is guided by logic ─ emotions also play a part For decades translation process research has aimed at describing the cognitive mechanisms — e.g., attention, memory, concentration — involved in the translation and interpreting process. But scarce research has been conducted so far on the role of emotions in guiding translation proRead More…
18 February 2021 12:30–14:00 What’s in a name? Would that which we call an interpreter by any other name talk as sweet? Interpreters can be defined by the mode they work in a simultaneous interpreter or a dialogue interpreter — by the setting they work in — a conference interpreter or a court interpreter, or by one of their working languages, e.g., sign language interpreter. In this talRead More…
The First AIIC Research Grant has been awarded to Nicoletta Spinolo (MC2Lab, Department of Interpreting and Translation of the University of Bologna) and Agnieszka Chmiel (A. Mickiewicz University, Poznan) for their project entitled ‘Inside the virtual booth: the impact of remote interpreting settings on interpreter experience and performance’.Read More…
12 November 2020 12:30–14:00 Directionality in translation and interpreting For decades, the general consensus has been that translators should work into their L1 and avoid translating into their L2 because they will produce translations of inferior quality. This prescriptive view has made translation directionality one of the most contentious issues in translation studies. The opponents haveRead More…
15 October 2020 12:30–14:00 Once upon a time… Measuring the history of translation, interpreting and cognition Bibliometrics is broadly defined as the statistical study of the flux of scientific information. One of its applica-tions is describing the history and sociology of science or specific disciplines. In this talk, I will use bibliometric methods to picture the evolution of CognitivRead More…
On behalf of the Department of Interpreting & Translation of the University of Bologna, the Laboratory for Multilectal Mediated Communication & Cognition invites you to the TREC-endorsed 2020-21 monthly series of online lectures Food for Thought COGNITIVE TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING STUDIES may be considered the oldest empirical domain with-in modern Translation Studies and one of Read More…