CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

July 17,2021---July 18, 2021

Online International Conference

Introduction:

Organizers: Professional Committee of Translation and Interpreting (PCTI) /Centre forTranslation Studies (CenTraS), UCL, UK

The Organizing Committee decides to hold thesymposium on "17th-18th July, 2021" (Online) due topandemic COVID 19. 

KeynoteSpeakers: 

Professor ZhifengKang, Fudan University, China

Professor BinhuaWang, University of Leeds, UK

Professor KirstenMalmkjaer, University of Leicester, UK

Professor CarolineLehr, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

It is widely accepted that translators and interpretersdo not work in isolation but “in a wider social context, interacting with otheragents and with information technology” (Shih 2017: 50; See also Wang &Wang 2019). As in any effective social interaction, three components underpintranslators and interpreters’ daily activities. They are: affect, behaviour andcognition (Spooner 1989). 

Cognition is defined as ‘the mental action or processof acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and thesenses’ (Oxford Dictionary 2019). In translation and interpreting, this oftenrefers to the mental procedure of how translators and interpreters acquire andstore information, and consequently plan and execute translation andinterpreting activities, often under the constraints of limited resources andsituational contexts. With an accumulation of these ongoing mental processingthroughout translators and interpreters’ experience and career, perception,schemata and understanding are gradually developed, which consequently guidetheir behaviours. Whist often overlooked, affect, which refers to translators’and interpreters’ emotion and feeling, is tightly interwoven into the fabricsof translation and interpreters’ cognition and behaviour.  

To understand the entirety and complexity oftranslation and interpreting as social interaction, it is important to explorethe interplay between translators’ and interpreters’ affect, behaviour andcognition, be it from the theoretical, empirical or methodological perspectives. 

Coordinator: Zhifeng Wang(王智锋) 

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