Walker, C orcid.org/0000-0001-7949-5621 (2019) A cognitive perspective on equivalent effect: using eye tracking to measure equivalence in source text and target text cognitive effects on readers. Perspectives, 27 (1). pp. 124-143. ISSN 0907-676X
Abstract
Eye-tracking methods have long been used to explore cognitive processing in reading, but the recent burgeoning of such methods in the field of translation studies has focused almost entirely on the translation process or audiovisual translation, neglecting the effects of the translation product itself. This paper presents a proof-of-concept study using eye tracking to compare fixation data between native readers of a French literary source text and native readers of its English translation at specific, corresponding points in the texts. The preliminary data are consistent with previous findings on the relationship between the features of the fixated word and fixation durations. These findings are also consistent with stylistic analyses and indicate that this method can be used to compare the levels of cognitive effort between two readership groups in order to investigate whether their experience is similar – whether an ‘equivalent effect’ has been achieved – thus contributing to the ongoing discourse surrounding equivalence in translation studies.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of an article published in Perspectives. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Eye tracking; equivalence; equivalent effect; reception; cognitive effort; cognitive translation studies |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Translation Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Sep 2021 13:12 |
Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2021 13:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/0907676x.2018.1449870 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:177263 |