Ethnographies of Translation and Situated Cognition

Abstract

Ethnographic approaches in translation studies can offer a path toward understanding the complex cognitive activity of translation. They can show how bodily movements, spatial organization, interaction with artifacts, and social scaffolding contribute to cognitive processes such as perception, remembering, understanding, decision making, and monitoring. This chapter describes the methodological commitments of the ethnographic approach to process research and the challenges that this kind of research poses in the study of translation and cognition. It describes the main challenges of ethnographic research, from the choice of and contact with the empirical setting, through data acquisition and data analysis, to the complex question of how to report on the results. It looks at the methodological commitments of the ethnographic approach and at the particular challenges that this kind of research poses in the field of translation and cognition research. For purposes of contrast and clarification, the chapter compares these briefly with those encountered in quantitative, experimental research.

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