Contesting Epistemologies in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies

Sandra L. Halverson is a professor of translation and professional communication at the University of Agder. Her research has centered on questions related to various areas of translation and interpreting studies and cognitive linguistics, and she has published both empirical and theoretical/conceptual work. Other long-term research interests are the epistemology of translation studies and research methodology. Professor Halverson is a member of the Translation Research, Empiricism and Cognition network (TREC) and INTERACT. She served as co-editor of Target for a period of eight years and currently serves on the editorial boards of several TIS journals. She was appointed CETRA Chair Professor for 2018. Álvaro Marín García is an assistant professor at the School of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Valladolid (Spain). Previously, he has worked as a translaiton lecturer at the University of Essex (UK).He has also taught translation theory and practice at Kent State University (USA), where he completed his PhD in translation studies. His research interests are in cultural and intellectual history and its relation to translation practices, cognitve translation studies, and the epistemology of translation studies. He is currently investigating translation expertise from an emic perspective as well as new forms of theory development from a pluralistic methodology as applied to cognitive translation studies and translation history.

Introduction: Scientific maturity and epistemological reflection in cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies

Álvaro Marín García & Sandra L. Halverson

Part I Challenging epistemologies






Epistemologies of translation expertise: Notions in research and praxis
Hanna Risku & Daniela Schlager




Processualizing process in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Piotr Blumczynski




Sociocognitive constructs in Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS): Do we really need concepts like norms and risk when we have a comprehensive usage-based theory of language?
Sandra L. Halverson & Haidee Kotze




"Tackling stillness through movement"; or constraining the extended mind. Cognitive-semiotic insights into Translation
Kobus Marais & Jani Marais




Latent variables in Translation and Interpreting Studies: Ontology, epistemology, and methodology
Christopher D. Mellinger & Thomas A. Hanson

Part II Converging epistemologies




Translation product and process data: A happy marriage or worlds apart?
Tatiana Serbina & Stella Neumann




Looking back to move forward: Towards a situated, distributed, and extended account of expertise
Fabio Alves, Igor A. Lourenço da Silva




An enactivist-posthumanist perspective on the translation process
Michael Carl

Part III Pluralist epistemologies




Where does it hurt? Learning from the parallels between medicine and Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies
Ricardo Muñoz & Christian Olalla Soler




Towards a pluralist approach to translation theory development

Álvaro Marín García