Translation, Cognition & Behavior
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CiteScore: 3.1SNIP: 1.356 SJR: 0.896
This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: CNKI Scholar ; Dimensions ; ERIH PLUS ; Glottolog ; IBR/IBZ ; Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique ; Linguistics Abstracts Online ; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA ) ; MLA International Bibliography ; Scopus ; Translation Studies Bibliography (TSB )
Translation, Cognition & Behavior focuses on a broad area of research generally known as cognitive translation studies – a term that encompasses new conceptual paradigms being explored in cognitive translatology as well as traditional translation process research. Cognitive translation studies intersects with a number of disciplines, and the journal welcomes interdisciplinary research from philosophy, cognitive science, psychology, bilingualism studies, anthropology, artificial intelligence, ergonomics, and, indeed any discipline that can illuminate our understanding of the mental processes that underlie the complex observable behavior of cross-language communication.
The overall objective of the journal is to connect rigorous descriptions of the observable activities of translators and interpreters – as the result of ethnographic, experimental or corpus research – to conceptions of the translating mind and brain. Translation, Cognition & Behavior will thus publish empirical and theoretical contributions focusing on the cognitive and behavioral aspects of a broad range of cross-language activities including all kinds of translation and interpreting tasks and subtasks, but also other unique forms of communicative mediation, professional or otherwise.
Topics of specific interest include, but are not limited to (a) the extension of general cognitive research paradigms (e.g., computationalism, connectionism, embodied, embedded, extended, enacted, affective, distributed cognition) into cognitive translation studies; (b) the development and learning of translation skills (e.g., expertise, cognitive aspects of translation teaching and learning, translation competence); (c) cognitive research methods (eye tracking, keystroke logging, neuroimaging, and so on); and (d) explorations of how the environment influences people's behavior and cognitive processing when performing communicative tasks (ergonomics, human–computer interaction, usability studies).
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Online-first articlesVolume 8 (2025)
Volume 7 (2024)
Volume 6 (2023)
Volume 5 (2022)
Volume 4 (2021)
Volume 3 (2020)
Volume 2 (2019)
Volume 1 (2018)
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All prices for print + online include postage/handling.
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| Volume 9 (2026): 2 issues; ca. 320 pp. | EUR | EUR | |
| Volume 8 (2025): 2 issues; ca. 320 pp. | EUR | EUR |
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Available back-volumes
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| Complete backset (Vols. 1‒7; 2018‒2024) | 14 issues; 2,240 pp. | EUR 1,073.00 | EUR 1,224.00 |
| Volume 7 (2024) | 2 issues; 320 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 6 (2023) | 2 issues; 320 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volumes 3‒5 (2020‒2022) | 2 issues; avg. 320 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 2 (2019) | 2 issues; 320 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 1 (2018) | 2 issues; 320 pp. | EUR | EUR |
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