Investigating domain conceptualisation and scene construal in trainee translators

Concepts of domain conceptualization & scene construal, adopted from cognitive linguistics, are outlined briefly & subsequently discussed in the context of translation, with the aim of explaining processing which may take place during translation. Of particular interest here is the link between domain conceptualization in students & the development of their linguistic & translational competence. Data from think-aloud studies involving intermediate & more advanced students provide some evidence of the extent of these students' conceptual awareness while translating a text from German into English. The paper concludes by positing that models of cognitive processing underlying cognitive linguistics may also help to explain how & why processes of translation investigated in corpus-based translation studies, eg, explicitation & normalization, may come about. 1 Figure, 16 References. Adapted from the source document