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In this chapter I will first briefly review current thinking about translation as an art, and then proceed to make a case for a new interdisciplinary linguistic and cognitive orientation in translation studies. I will then look at translation-relevant introspective and retrospective studies, as well as behavioral experiments and neuro-imaging studies. Finally I will propose a new interdisciplinary approach that sets out to combine a functional-linguistic translation theory with a neuro-functional theory of bilingualism.
This paper is a revised and shortened version of (House 2013).
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House, J. (2019). Suggestions for a New Interdisciplinary Linguo-cognitive Theory in Translation Studies. In: Li, D., Lei, V., He, Y. (eds) Researching Cognitive Processes of Translation. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1984-6_1
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