This innovative volume builds on Michael S. Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory toward radically expanding the theoretical and methodological scope of translational priming research.
Gazzaniga’s Interpreter Theory, based on empirical studies carried out with split-brain patients, argues for the Left-Brain Interpreter (LBI), a module in the brain’s left hemisphere that seeks to make sense of their world based on available evidence—and, where no evidence is available, primed by past memories, confabulates coherence. The volume unpacks this idea in translation research to test whether translators are primed to confabulate by the LBI in their own work. Robinson investigates existing empirical research to test hypotheses on the translational links between the LBI and cognitive priming, the Right-Brain Interpreter and affective priming, and the Collective Full-Brain Interpreter and social priming. Taken together, the book seeks to open translational priming studies up to the full range of cognitive, affective, and social primes and to prime cognitive translation researchers to implement this broader dynamic in future research.
This book will be of interest to scholars in translation and interpreting studies, especially those working in cognitive translation and interpreting studies.
Author(s): Douglas Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 141
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction: Prime Time
The Structure of the Book
Part I: The Left-Brain Interpreter (LBI): Cognitive Priming
Chapter 1: The Confabulating LBI
Empirical Research Review: Confabulation
Ideas for Research: “Overtranslation” as Confabulation Primed by the LBI
Empirical Research Review: The LBI in Neurotypicals
Ideas for Research: LBI-Priming Normative Translation
Part II: The Right-Brain Interpreter (RBI): Affective Priming
Chapter 2: The Affective RBI
Empirical Research Review: Right-Brain-to-Right-Brain Affective Communication
Empirical Research Review: The Translator’s and Interpreter’s Emotional Intelligence as Primed and Organized by the RBI
Classroom Report: The RBI as a Literary Interpreter
Ideas for Research: Translating as Traveling and the Transformative Affect of Wonder
Chapter 3: The Evolutionary Origins and Function of the RBI
Empirical Research Review: Evolutionary Origins
Sociological Research Report: Bourdieu on the Affective “Secret Code”
Ideas for Research: The RBI as the “Secret Code” of Translating
Anecdote: An Interesting Series of Events in Volgograd, Russia
Ideas for Research: The Double-Binds of Translation
Chapter 4: Aprosodic Linguistics
Theory: Correctness Anxiety
Empirical Research Review: Feeling Words
Ideas for Research: Not “Mindless” but “Heartless” Translating
Chapter 5: Parasomatic Semiotics
Theory: RBI Semiotics—The Peircean Interpretant
Theory: RBI Semiology—The Saussurean Parasomatics of Language
Ideas for Research: The RBI-Priming Effects of Multimodal Translations
Theory: Affective-Becoming-Conative Emergentism
Ideas for Research: Translation as an Indirect Speech Act
Part III: The Collective Full-Body Interpreter (CFBI): Social Priming
Chapter 6: The CFBI and the Unification of Language
Theory: Bakhtinian Heteroglossia
Ideas for Research: Heteroglot CFBI Anchors and Primes for Cognitive Translation Research
Chapter 7: The Shared Interpreter
Empirical Research Review: Guidance through Social Experience
Empirical Research Review: Priming
Ideas for Research: Priming Translation with Money and Love
Conclusion
Notes
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Conclusion
References
Index
