Cognitive Effort in Translation, Editing, and Post‐editing

Abstract

The three-way relationship between effort, speed, and quality makes it important for translation process researchers to find ways to understand and measure the effort that translators exert as they carry out their professional work. This chapter describes how this research has developed and where it stands now, and suggests possible avenues for future research. It focuses on cognitive effort, but sharpens the focus the authors will at times need to pay attention to temporal and technical effort. To gain insight into cognitive effort in the translation process, it is helpful first to ask how cognitive psychologists approach the study of cognitive effort in monolingual language processing. The chapter outlines how paradigms used in cognitive psychology have been adapted to empirical research in translation and have contributed enormously to our growing understanding of cognitive effort in all aspects of translation, editing, and post-editing processes.

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