Eye Tracking in Translation Process Research

Abstract

Eye tracking has been used in disciplines such as psychology, psycholinguistics, and cognitive sciences to study human behavior, attention, and cognition for many years, but it has only recently found its way into translation studies and translation process research (TPR). This chapter outlines central methodological issues that have been described in the literature, presents a selection of eye-tracking studies in translation research, organized into broad research topics, and discusses potential future avenues of eye-tracking research in translation. The analysis of eye movement data in any kind of research rests on the notion that the focus of visual attention can tell us something about the focus of cognitive attention. Process research using eye tracking may be useful to discover questions examined in traditional process research, including differences between novice and professional subtitlers; the subtitler's allocation and coordination of attention to text, audio, and image; the use of translation strategies; and many more.

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