4th International Conference on

Cognitive Research on Translation, Interpreting and Language Acquisition

Date

3-4 November 2017

 

Venue

Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China

 

Organizers

Center for Translation Studies,
School of English and International Studies,

Beijing Foreign Studies University

 

Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (CSTIC)

University of Macau

 

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Research on Translation, Interpreting and Language Acquisition, to be held on 3-4 November 2017 at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China. The first three conferences were held in 2014, 2015 and 2016 respectively, by the Centre for Studies of Translation, Interpreting and Cognition (CSTIC) at University of Macau. This is the first time this conference will be hosted outside Macau.

 

This conference will provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of up-to-date cognitive research on translation, interpreting and language acquisition. High quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work are cordially invited for presentation at the conference.

 

Conference Themes:

 

We are now inviting proposals for 30-minute presentations (20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion), addressing one of the following themes:

• Conceptualizing process studies in Translation Studies
• Psycholinguistics in translation/interpreting as bilingual processing
• Cognitive linguistics in translation/interpreting as bilingual processing
• Cognitive processes of translation
• Cognitive processes of interpreting
• Cognitive processes of second language learning
• Cognition and translator training
• Bilingual processing and language education
• Research methods in the cognitive translation/interpreting studies
• Corpus application in bilingual processing and language acquisition
• Tools for the cognitive study of translation/interpreting processes
  

 

Workshop: Multimodal Integration of Written and Spoken Translation Production

By Michael Carl & Masaru Yamada

Eye-tracking and keyboard logging techniques have become established methods in translation process research and a number of interesting and sometimes surprising findings have been reported over the past decade.More recently, technologies have been developed that allow records of spoken translation (sight translation and interpretation) to be transcribed, analyzed and compared with records of written translation production. The comparison of independent, multi-modal behavioral data streams (reading, writing, hearing, speaking) is a challenging task that requires an advanced technological framework for data analysis, but promises deeper insights into the human translation processes and allows for better grounded and more general theories of the translation process.With the integration of multi-modal data streams it will be possible to investigate universal cognitive processes in spoken and written translation production and reception as well as contrasts resulting from orality and literacy.

This workshop introduces novel methods for recording and transcribing spoken language and how it can be aligned with gaze and keystroke data. The aim is to outline the components of the technological framework and to demonstrate in practical hands-on sessions how spoken data records can be obtained and processed in conjunction with the available legacy in the Translation Process Research Database (TPR-DB). We will also give sample research results and show an expanded usage of TPR-DB with neuro-imaging technology. The workshop will take place on the afternoon November 1st from 12:00 – 18:00.

Session plan:
- introduction and rational
- setting up and recording a sight translation experiment
- speech transcription and sentence alignment in ELAN
- word alignment in YAWAT
- building and analysing a TPR-DB