A cognitive inquiry into similarities and differences between translation and paraphrase: Evidence from eye movement data.

ABSTRACT: Intralingual translation has long been peripheral to empirical studies of translation. Considering its many similarities with interlingual translation, also described as translation proper, we adopted eye-tracking technology to investigate the cognitive process during translation and paraphrase, an exemplification of intralingual translation. Twenty-four postgraduate students were required to perform four types of tasks (Chinese paraphrase, English-Chinese translation, English paraphrase, Chinese-English translation) for source texts (ST) of different genres. Their eye movements were recorded for analysis of the cognitive effort and attention distribution pattern. The result demonstrated that: (1) Translation elicited significantly greater cognitive efforts than paraphrase; (2) Differences

SUBMITTER: Ma X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9355232 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature