Minds between languages

Hello and welcome again to Minds between Languages! In this episode we talk about translation literality and translation competence with Moritz Schaeffer, Senior researcher at Johann-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

Suggested readings

Jacob, G., Schaeffer, M.J., Oster, K., Hansen-Schirra, S., 2024. The psycholinguistics of shining-through effects in translation: cross-linguistic structural priming or serial lexical co-activation? Applied Psycholinguistics 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716424000183

Schaeffer, M., Huepe, D., Hansen-Schirra, S., Hofmann, S., Muñoz, E., Kogan, B., Herrera, E., Ibáñez, A., García, A.M., 2020. The Translation and Interpreting Competence Questionnaire: an online tool for research on translators and interpreters. Perspectives 28, 90–108. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2019.1629468

Further resources

https://traco.uni-mainz.de/team

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Hello and welcome to this new edition of Minds between Languages! Our guest today is assoc. prof. Pawel Korpał and we discuss stress in interpreting. 

Suggested readings

Korpal, P., Jankowiak, K., & Kaczmarek, Ł. D. (2025). Emotional content affects interpreters: Insights from psychophysiological, behavioral, and self-report measures. Interpreting (online first). https://doi.org/10.1075/intp.00125.kor

Korpal, P., & Mellinger, C. D. (2022). Self-care strategies of professional community interpreters: An interview-based study. Translation, Cognition & Behavior, 5(2), 275–299. https://doi.org/10.1075/tcb.00069.kor

Korpal, P. (2021). Stress experienced by Polish sworn translators and interpreters. Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, 29(4), 554–571. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2021.1889004

Further resources

https://anglistyka.amu.edu.pl/pracownicy/pawel-korpal

Funding information

The studies on affective language processing were funded by the National Science Centre, Poland (grant number 2020/39/D/HS2/ 00326; PI: Paweł Korpal).

The study on self-care in community interpreting was conducted as part of Paweł Korpal’s Fulbright scholarship (Fulbright Senior Award) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, in collaboration with Dr. Christopher Mellinger.

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 Hello and welcome again to Minds between Languages! In this installment we discuss cognitive and emotional load with Alper Kumcu, Associate professor at Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey. 

Suggested readings

Kumcu, A., & Duman, D. (202x). Disentangling cognitive and emotional load in interpreting: multimodal evidence from physiological and prosodic data. (currently under review in Target). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zjbf4_v1 (Preprint)

Kumcu, A., & Öztürk, A. (2023). Visual mental imagery and verbal working memory: evidence from consecutive interpreting. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 35(5), 545-560. http://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2023.2216917

Kumcu, A. (2023). Emotional language processing in bilingualism: Subjective affect and prosodic markers in simultaneous interpreting. Çankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 17(2), 194-211. https://doi.org/10.47777/cankujhss.1338278

Further resources

Personal website: https://alperkumcu.github.io

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 Hello and welcome to this new episode of Minds between Languages! Today, we talk with Ana María Rojo López, full professor at the University of Murcia (Spain), about emotion in translation and interpreting. 

Suggested readings

Naranjo, B., & Rojo López, A. M. (2021). In and out of tune: The effects of musical (in)congruence on translation. Target. International Journal of Translation Studies, 33(1), 132–156. https://doi.org/10.1075/target.19076.nar

Rojo, A., & Ramos Caro, M. (2016). Can emotion stir translation skill? Defining the impact of positive and negative emotions on translation performance. In R. Muñoz Martín (Ed.), Benjamins Translation Library (Vol. 128, pp. 107–130). John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.128.06roj

Rojo López, A. M. (2024). Translating manner: The impact of violence on translation students’ strategies, affect and narrative transportation. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 56(2), 298–316. https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2024.2413792

Rojo López, A. M., Cifuentes Férez, P., & Espín López, L. (2021). The influence of time pressure on translation trainees’ performance: Testing the relationship between self-esteem, salivary cortisol and subjective stress response. PLOS ONE, 16(9), e0257727. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257727

ojo López, A. M. a, Meseguer Cutillas, P.. (2021). The effect of attitude towards Catalonia’s independence on response latency when translating ideologically conflicting press headlines. Onomázein Revista de Lingüística Filología y Traducción, 8, 128–145. https://doi.org/10.7764/onomazein.ne8.02

Further resources

https://www.um.es/emotra/

 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PICttvgAAAAJ&hl=es 

https://www.mc2-lab.net

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 Hello and welcome again to Minds between Languages! Our guest today is Patricia Rodríguez-Inés, senior lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She will talk about translation competence. 

Suggested readings

Hurtado Albir, A. & Rodríguez-Inés, P. (eds.) (2022). Towards a European framework of competence levels in translation. The PACTE group’s NACT project. MonTi (Monografías de Traducción e Interpretación). Special Issue 7. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2022.ne7 [EN]

Hurtado Albir, A. & Rodríguez-Inés, P. (2023). Establishing Competence Levels in the Acquisition of Translation Competence in Written Translation. THIRD NACT PROPOSAL. https://www.effortproject.eu/framework-for-translation-levels-a-b/third-nact-proposal-of-descriptors/ [EN]

Hurtado Albir, A.; Rodríguez-Inés, P.; Prieto Ramos, F.; Dam, H.V.; Dimitriu, R.; Haro Soler, M.M.; Huertas Barros, E.; Kujamäki, M.; Kuźnik, A.; Pokorn, N.; van Egdom, G.M.W.; Ciobanu, S.; Cogeanu-Haraga, O.; Ghivirigă, T.; González Cruz, S.; Gostkowska, K.; Pisanski Peterlin, A.; Vesterager, A.K.; Vine, J.; Walczyński, M.; Zethsen, K.K. (2023). Common European Framework of Reference for Translation – Competence Level C (specialist translator): A proposal by the EFFORT Project. https://www.effortproject.eu/ [EN, ES, FR, DA, DE, FI, IT, NL, PL, RO, SL]

Further resources

https://portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/persons/patricia-rodriguez-ines-3

https://www.effortproject.eu/

https://www.effortproject.eu/framework-for-translation-levels-a-b/self-assessment-tool/ 

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 Hello and welcome to Minds between languages. Our guest today is Binghan Zheng, professor in translation studies at Durham University, United Kingdom. He will talk about investigating "interpreter advantage". 

Suggested readings

Zhang, X., Zheng, B.*, Wang, R. & He, H. (2025) Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. pp. 1-11. doi.org/10.1017/S136672892500032X

Zheng, B. et al. (2020). Semantic and attentional networks in bilingual processing: fMRI connectivity signatures of translation directionality. Brain & Cognition 143(105584). pp.1-11. doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105584

Weng, Y., Zheng, B. * & Dong, Y. (2022). Time pressure in translation: Psychological and physiological measures. Target, 34(4). pp. 601-626. doi.org/10.1075/target.20148.wen

Further resources

https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/binghan-zheng/

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Hello and welcome to a new episode to Minds between Languages! Today is with us associate prof. Agnieszka Chmiel from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznán (Poland). She will share with us her expertise on visual input in interpreting. 

Suggested readings

Chmiel, A., Janikowski, P., & Cieślewicz, A. (2020). The eye or the ear? Source language interference in sight translation and simultaneous interpreting. Interpreting. International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting, 22(2), 187-210.

Chmiel, A., Janikowski, P., & Lijewska, A. (2020). Multimodal processing in simultaneous interpreting with text: Interpreters focus more on the visual than the auditory modality. Target, 32(1), 37–58.

Li, T., & Chmiel, A. (2024). Automatic subtitles increase accuracy and decrease cognitive load in simultaneous interpreting. Interpreting. International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting, 26(2), 253–281.

Further resources

https://anglistyka.amu.edu.pl/pracownicy/agnieszka-chmiel

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 Hello and welcome to a new episode of Minds between Languages! Joining us today is Prof. Michaela Albl-Mikasa from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland) who will be talking about English as a lingua franca and what it means for interpreters.

Suggested readings
Albl-Mikasa, M. & Gieshoff, A. C. (2024). Working with non-standard input in interpreting (research). In Christopher D. Mellinger, The Routledge handbook of interpreting and cognition (205-223).

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela (2023). Relevance of ELF speakers’ source speeches: interpreters’ interventions. META 68/2, 384 - 405.

Albl-Mikasa, M. (2022). Conference interpreting and English as a lingua franca. In M. Albl-Mikasa & E. Tiselius (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of conference interpreting (pp. 546-563). London: Routledge.

Albl-Mikasa, M. (2020). Interpreters’ roles and responsibilities. In E. Angelone, M. Ehrensberger-Dow & G. Massey (Eds.), The Bloomsbury companion to language industry studies (pp. 91–114). London: Bloomsbury Academic.

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela, 2020. Note-taking. In M. Baker & G, Saldanha (Eds.), Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies (pp. 380–385). London: Routledge.

Further resources

https://www.zhaw.ch/en/about-us/person/albm/

https://www.zhaw.ch/en/linguistics/research/interpreting-studies/

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