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Vol. 6:1 (2008) ► pp.59–74

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Eye Movement Recordings as a Tool for Studying Mental Simulation of Speed in Text Processing by Professional Translators

 | University of Oslo, Norway |
 | New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria |
Published online: 1 April 2008
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https://doi.org/10.1075/forum.6.1.03fou
Abstract/Résumé
La présente étude expérimentale porte sur la représentation mentale du mouvement en traduction. L’impression de se déplacer à la lecture d’un texte évoquée par le sémantisme des mots serait due à l’activation conceptuelle d’une simulation de la vitesse. Nous avons posé qu’en traduction la simulation de la vitesse serait plus manifeste qu’au niveau de la simple lecture du texte, du fait que la traduction implique un traitement conceptuel plus riche. Nous avons mesuré les indices de la représentation mentale de la vitesse au moyen d’outils permettant d’enregistrer les mouvements des yeux, à savoir la vidéo oculographique de Tobii 1750 et le logiciel GWM. La détection du nombre et de la durée des fixations sur les mots clefs du texte signalant une motion a montré que les traducteurs professionnels s’étaient davantage attardés sur les mots évoquant des mouvements lents que des mouvements rapides. Cette capacité de simulation de la vitesse en traduction permet de renforcer l’hypothèse selon laquelle la traduction est avant tout une activité conceptuelle où la visualisation des concepts est une étape préalable à la reverbalisation dans la langue d’arrivée.
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