The neurocognition of translation and interpreting / Adolfo M. García.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

García, Adolfo M., author.

Series:

Benjamins Translation Library ; 147

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurolinguistics.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

This groundbreaking work offers a comprehensive account of brain-based research on translation and interpreting. First, the volume introduces the methodological and conceptual pillars of psychobiological approaches vis-à-vis those of other cognitive frameworks. Next, it systematizes neuropsychological, neuroscientific, and behavioral evidence on key topics, including the lateralization of networks subserving cross-linguistic processes; their relation with other linguistic mechanisms; the functional organization and temporal dynamics of the circuits engaged by different translation directions, processing levels, and source-language units; the system’s susceptibility to training-induced plasticity; and the outward correlates of its main operations. Lastly, the book discusses the field’s accomplishments, strengths, weaknesses, and requirements. Its authoritative yet picturesque, didactic style renders it accessible to researchers in cognitive translatology, bilingualism, and neurolinguistics, as well as teachers and practitioners in related areas. Succinctly, this piece establishes a much-needed platform for translation and interpreting studies to fruitfully interact with cognitive neuroscience.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Notes on previous works

Introduction. Translation, interpreting, and the brain behind it all

Chapter 1. Mind and brain in the study of translation and interpreting

Chapter 2. The toolkit

Chapter 3. Prolegomena to the translating and interpreting brain

Chapter 4. Building up from breakdown

Chapter 5. The dynamics of directionality

Chapter 6. Process is as unit requires

Chapter 7. The interpreter’s brain

Chapter 8. A story in the making

About the author

List of figures and tables

List of acronyms and abbreviations

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027262356

9027262357