Xingcheng Ma
List of John Benjamins publications for which Xingcheng Ma plays a role.
2024 Effect of word order asymmetry on the cognitive load of English–Chinese sight translation: Evidence from eye movement data Translation and Interpreting Studies 19:1, pp. 105–131 | Article
This article examines word order asymmetry as one prominent obstacle in the cognitive process of English–Chinese sight translation. A within-subject experiment was designed for 23 MA translation students who sight translated sentences with different degrees of structural asymmetry from English… read more
2021 A cognitive investigation of ‘chunking’ and ‘reordering’ for coping with word-order asymmetry in English-to-Chinese sight translation: Evidence from an eye-tracking study Interpreting 23:2, pp. 192–221 | Article
Word-order asymmetry between source language and target language has been recognized as a major obstacle in interpreting. Regarding whether the original word order is changed in target production, two strategies for asymmetrical structures are identified: chunking and reordering. This study… read more
2021 Exploring the impact of word order asymmetry on cognitive load during Chinese–English sight translation: Evidence from eye-movement data Target 33:1, pp. 103–131 | Article
This paper explores the impact of word order asymmetry between source language and target language on cognitive load during Chinese–English sight translation. Twenty-five MA students of translation from a Hong Kong university were asked to sight translate sentences with different degrees of… read more
2020 Language interference in English-Chinese simultaneous interpreting with and without text Babel 66:3, pp. 434–456 | Article
This study investigated the effect of source language interference during English-Chinese simultaneous interpreting (SI) with and without text by examining the relationships between manifestations of language interference and interpreting modes. A corpus-based descriptive approach was used to… read more