Priming Translation: Cognitive, Affective, and Social Factors

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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. 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