MeTI | Métodos en Traducción e Interpretación

Extending the Scope of Corpus-Based Translation Studies, 1.ª edición; Sylviane Granger e Marie-Aude Lefer (eds.), Londres, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 284 pp.

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Investigar en didáctica de la traducción. Vías metodológicas e implementación de resultados en el contexto de la formación de traductores en España, 1.ª edición; Ana Gregorio Cano, Granada, Editorial Comares, 2022, 101 pp.

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Planteamientos historiográficos sobre la traducción en el ámbito hispánico, Francisco Lafarga y Luis Pegenaute (eds.), Kassel, Edition Reichenberger (Problemata Literaria, 98), 2023, 355 pp.

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Translation beyond Translation Studies, 1.ª edición; Kobus Marais (ed.), Londres, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, 264 pp.

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Methodology, 1.ª edición; Federico Zanettin y Christopher Rundle (eds.), Londres y Nueva York, Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group (Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies), 2022, i-xiii / 510 p

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Después de muchos giros

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Sobre las bondades de la pluralidad teórica y el peligro de la maldición de Babel

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From professional translator to lecturer and researcher

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This testimony begins with an account of my academic training at the graduate and postgraduate levels in Europe, highlighting my PhD dissertation on the notion of adaptation, which emerged from my adaptation of Delisle’s Handbook (1980) into the French–Spanish working languages. It then offers a brief overview of my first con-ference presentations, which proved formative and inspirational for my subsequent research. My years of teaching in Venezuela and Canada were guided by two core principles—teaching by example and valuing success—as well as by a personal con-viction: the defense and promotion of high-quality French language use. Special at-tention is given to my supervisory activities and my involvement in a Montréal-based research group (www.histal.net), as well as to my experience as editor-in-chief of the journal Meta and my presidency of ACT-CATS and ACET. I then seek to illustrate the significance of my major research contributions. The testimony concludes with an overview of the theoretical and methodological models that have guided my work.

A personal archaeology: Silence, action!

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I intend to question a 40-year career in order to understand somewhat the archae-ology of my directions. This way of looking – both retrospective and prospective - underscores how much luck I had to participate in both the emergence and the development of Translation Studies (TS).

Where digital worlds and translation studies collide: from localization to AI and beyond

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This paper explores the evolution of localization research within Translation Studies and examines how emerging AI technologies are reshaping multilingual digital communi-cation. Through a retrospective analysis of the author’s research career, the paper maps key developments in the study of localization and its evolution through the impact of crowdsourcing and translation technologies from the early 2000s to the present AI era. The discussion highlights how localization practices challenged traditional translation models by introducing new workflows, digital genres, and collaborative environments that required novel theoretical and methodological approaches (e.g. corpus-based transla-tion studies, mixed-methods research, and socio-cognitive perspectives). It also addresses the growing integration of AI-driven tools such as machine translation, large language models, AI dubbing, and automated localization management systems into professional localization workflows. Special attention is devoted to Human-Centered AI as a promis-ing framework for balancing automation with human autonomy, professional expertise, and user needs. The paper argues that future localization research must engage critically with ethical, social, and linguistic dimensions of AI, particularly regarding low-resource languages, digital inclusion, and equitable access to multilingual digital content.

Translation, cognition, and other mishaps

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I reconstruct my scholarly trajectory as a way of making sense of the emergence of cognitive translation and interpreting studies as a domain, and of cognitive transla-tology as a framework within it. Work as a translator and early studies on language variation gradually opened into empirical research on translators’ behavior and expertise. Linguistic models proved insufficient and yielded to perspectives ground-ed in situated cognition, in which embodiment, environment, and task conditions shape translation activity, and eventually expand toward multimodal, multitask, and increasingly technological forms of professional and non-professional communica-tion alike. Translator training, researcher training, and research methods remained tightly intertwined over decades, under institutional constraints that both support and distort them. The resulting view frames cognitive translatology as a moving tar-get rather than a settled domain, defined less by boundaries than by its attempts to understand multilectal mediated communication.

Developing Methodological Expertise in Interpreting Studies

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At the editors’ invitation, this reflective essay reviews my personal trajectory as a researcher, which is largely congruent and intertwined with some major initiatives and stages in the development of interpreting studies. My PhD research on simultaneous interpreting in the early 1990s serves as a starting point, highlighting the tension between general theories and empirical aspirations in the absence of methodological expertise. Pioneering efforts to promote research training by publication and by teaching are then described, with special reference to Daniel Gile and his role in the 1997 Aarhus Seminar. Further milestones include the founding of the journal Interpreting, whose subsequent volumes reflect major advances in research methods, and the publication of textbooks providing methodological guidance.

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Controlled settings and beyond: Reception and action research studies on museum audio description

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Audio description, as an intersemiotic transfer between the verbal and visual modes, has been increasingly professionalised and researched over the last two decades. This article will focus on the study of museum audio descriptive practices through methodological approaches that amplify the voices of end users. We will investigate the most recent research and the methodological frameworks that have been applied thus far. In doing so, we will take stock of prevailing research trends while also providing insights on how both action research and reception studies can propel the field forward, ensuring that findings and outcomes extend beyond the confines of academia.

Mixed-method approach to institutional political translation: a contrastive study of Obama and Trump

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This article analyses the methodology used in the author’s PhD thesis on the translation of institutional political speeches from the White House. Using a mixed-method approach that combines qualitative and quantitative analyses, it examines speeches by Barack Obama and Donald Trump and their translations into Spanish. Based on the theories of Al-Juwaid, Gallardo Paúls, Fairclough and Van Dijk, we apply techniques of argumentative, discursive and rhetorical analysis. The results reveal significant differences in argumentative structure, the use of rhetorical resources and their translation. The methodology allows us to identify patterns of discursive manipulation and to evaluate the coherence of institutional translations. This work highlights the importance of an integrative approach to analyse translated political speeches from a critical perspective, contributing to the knowledge of institutional translation in political contexts. By means of this mixed-method approach, we seek to establish the suitability of this methodological framework to identify ideological and discursive elements in the discourses analysed as a preliminary phase of the translation process, in this case, in the English/Spanish language pair.

Methodological considerations for emotion research in MTPE: A multimethod design using eye-tracking and self-report questionnaires

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This paper explores the methodological challenges of researching cognitive and emotional dimensions in machine translation post-editing (MTPE) through a multimethod design. The study combined psychometric, physiological, and behavioral data to examine differences in translators’ anxiety, emotional arousal, cognitive effort, and visual attention during an English-to-Spanish MTPE task involving statistical machine translation (SMT) and neural machine translation (NMT). Emotional arousal was measured via pupil dilation, anxiety through the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and cognitive effort via fixation durations. Visual attention was analyzed through fixation counts on the source text, machine translation (MT) output, and Internet browser. The influence of MT technology, anxiety, and attitude on visual attention distribution was explored using data from both professional and student translators working in ecologically valid conditions. This study reflects critically on the methodological challenges encountered, including issues related to construct operationalization, participant variability, and ecological validity. At the same time, it demonstrates the value of a multimethod research design—combining eye-tracking and self-report measures—for investigating the interplay between cognition and emotion in MTPE. Finally, it argues that the rise of new MT technologies, including generative AI, poses an emerging methodological challenge that future Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS) should address.

Building ethograms for interpreting research —A technical report

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By establishing precise temporal relationships across modalities, researchers can connect behavioral indicators with cognitive processes, revealing otherwise hidden patterns in interpreter performance. This paper presents a hands-on approach for aligning multimodal data in interpreting studies. It introduces four strategies for synchronizing audio, video, and keystroke data along a unified temporal framework: visual observation, auditory identification, signal sound recognition, and words and chunk levels. This human-centered approach envisions interpreters as cognitive agents interacting with physical and digital environments. Though time-intensive, these alignment protocols provide essential foundations for capturing interpreting’s multimodal nature and support more rigorous, ecologically valid research in cognitive translation and interpreting studies.