Translation, Cognition & Behavior

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Editors
ORCID logoElena Davitti | University of Surrey, UK | e.davitti at surrey.ac.uk
ORCID logoAlper Kumcu | Hacettepe University, Turkey | alperkumcu at hacettepe.edu.tr
Consulting Editors
ORCID logoRicardo Muñoz Martín | University of Bologna, Italy | ricardo.munoz at unibo.it
ORCID logoSharon O'Brien | Dublin City University, Ireland | sharon.obrien at dcu.ie

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).

TCB publishes its articles Online First.

Social media presence: https://twitter.com/jbtacuba

ISSN: 2542-5277 | E-ISSN: 2542-5285
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Latest articles

3 December 2024

  • Morphological complexity as a predictor of cognitive effort in neural machine translation post-editing
    Hussein Abu-Rayyash Shatha Alhawamdeh
  • 19 November 2024

  • Effects of experience and directionality on cognitive load in dialogue interpreting
    Aleksandra Adler
  • 10 October 2024

  • When faces don’t lie : Physiology and facial expressions in the reception of audio described porn
    Marina Ramos Caro Ana María Rojo López | TCB 7:1 (2024) pp. 116–139
  • Syntax, stress and cognitive load, or on syntactic processing in simultaneous interpreting
    Agnieszka Chmiel , Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny , Danijel Koržinek , Dariusz Jakubowski Przemysław Janikowski | TCB 7:1 (2024) pp. 22–47
  • Language mediation training and the foreign‑language effect in moral decision‑making
    Álvaro Marín García | TCB 7:1 (2024) pp. 140–158
  • Measuring psychological immersion through cardiovascular response measures in subtitled films
    César González Anna Jankowska | TCB 7:1 (2024) p. 90
  • Multimodal exploration of the thank God expressive construction and its implications for translation
    Fernando Casanova Martínez | TCB 7:1 (2024) pp. 48–89
  • Psychometric properties of survey translations : A simulation study
    Christopher D. Mellinger Thomas A. Hanson | TCB 7:1 (2024) pp. 159–185
  • Swept or swayed by the tide of change? Translation and interpreting at the interface of cognition and emotion
    Ana María Rojo López | TCB 7:1 (2024) pp. 1–21
  • 7 March 2024

  • Empirical translation process research : Past and possible future perspectives
    Michael Carl | TCB 6:2 (2023) pp. 252–274
  • Simultaneous interpreting, brain aging, and cognition : A review and future directions
    Stefan Elmer Nathalie Giroud | TCB 6:2 (2023) pp. 118–140
  • Predictive processes in interpreters : Existing findings and future directions in interpreting process research
    Ena Hodzik | TCB 6:2 (2023) pp. 141–163
  • Experimenting with audio description : When participants are all ears in CTIS
    Ana María Rojo López Marina Ramos Caro | TCB 6:2 (2023) pp. 211–229
  • Contextualising translation expertise : Lived practice and social construction
    Daniela Schlager Hanna Risku | TCB 6:2 (2023) pp. 230–251
  • Wearable eye trackers : Methodological challenges, opportunities and perspectives for sight interpreting/translation
    Yao Xiao , Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund Chen-En Ho | TCB 6:2 (2023) pp. 164–186
  • Cognition and behaviour of reception in museum spaces : A critical review of eye tracking research on museum translation (2010–2022)
    Renwen Xu , Boya Zhang Binghan Zheng | TCB 6:2 (2023) pp. 187–210
  • Cognitive translation and interpreting studies in the early twenty first century
    Adolfo M. García , Edinson Muñoz Néstor Singer | TCB 6:2 (2023) pp. 109–117
  • 20 November 2023

  • Augmentation and translation crowdsourcing : Are collaborative translators’ minds truly “augmented”?
    Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo
  • 27 July 2023

  • Editorial
    TCB 6:1 (2023) pp. 1–2
  • 13 June 2023

  • The impact of traditional and interactive post-editing on Machine Translation User Experience, quality, and productivity
    Vicent Briva-Iglesias , Sharon O’Brien Benjamin R. Cowan | TCB 6:1 (2023) pp. 60–86
  • IssuesOnline-first articles

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    Board
    Advisory Board
    ORCID logoFabio Alves | Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
    ORCID logoEllen Bialystok | York University, Canada
    ORCID logoBirgitta Englund Dimitrova | Stockholm University, Sweden
    Daniel Gile | Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, France
    Juliane House | Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
    ORCID logoArnt Lykke Jakobsen | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
    Paul Kussmaul | University of Mainz, Germany
    ORCID logoBarbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk | State University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland
    ORCID logoDefeng Li | CSTIC, University of Macau, Macau
    ORCID logoBarbara Moser-Mercer | University of Geneva, Switzerland
    ORCID logoGregory M. Shreve | Kent State University, USA
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    Guidelines

    SUBMISSION GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

    Translation, Cognition & Behavior (TCB) welcomes papers on all aspects of cognitive translation and interpreting studies. A typical article may be a full-fledged paper that presents novel data on research questions or hypotheses that are embedded in an extensive theoretical framework. Another kind of welcomed article may consist of a thorough review or discussion of the literature summarizing existing work in order to prompt future research. Authors wishing to submit articles for publication in TCB are requested to send inquiries to the editors at  alperkumcu at gmail.com and e.davitti at surrey.ac.uk. Contacting the editors in advance may be a good idea, in order to request access to an online cover page form for your draft. 

    Only full-length papers are reviewed, i.e., the journal does not provide preliminary feedback on whether a paper is acceptable for publication (even in principle) only based on its title, planned topic or (extended) abstract. Any material submitted to TCB must be original work, not published or under review elsewhere, and contributors may not submit this work elsewhere while it is under review here. If related material is published, under consideration, or in press elsewhere, that must be disclosed to the TCB editors. Similarly, if part of a contribution has appeared or will appear elsewhere, contributors must specify the details when submitting their work to TCB. More information in the JB Ethics Statement.

    Manuscripts may be submitted at any time. There are no fixed deadlines. Papers in line with the journal’s standards, aims and scope, will undergo a double-blind peer-review procedure. The two referees are usually given six to eight weeks to give their assessment, so that the time from submission to decision should be below 90 days. Submissions will not be returned; authors should keep a complete copy of their manuscript. More than one editing round may sometimes be necessary, especially for papers in thematic sections with guest editors. In any and all editing rounds, the first author or the corresponding author of a contribution will receive a PDF of first proofs of the article for correction via email and will be requested to return the corrections to the journal editor within 7 days of receipt.

    To make the editing process efficient, smooth and quick, the publisher and the editors urge you to strictly follow the journal’s style. Please read it through and try to be as careful and thorough as you can. Papers that do not conform to the following guidelines cannot be considered for publication. Please use a minimum of layout settings apart from those included in this style guide, and take advantage of electronic styles to ensure consistency. At this point in the process, clear and consistent presentation are paramount. In principle, TCB observes text conventions outlined in The Chicago Manual of Style. For all editorial problems not specifically addressed below, please refer to it.

    The copyright of articles published in TCB is held by the Publisher (see JB's copyright policy). Permission for the author to use the article elsewhere will be granted upon request, provided full acknowledgement is given to the source. More information, here. Authors will receive a complimentary copy of the issue in which their paper appears.

    1. Language and spelling

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    (b)   for articles with long titles (which in general should be avoided), include a shortened version (up to 55 characters + spaces), to be used later as running head.

    (c)   author(s) full name and ORCID id (indicate corresponding author with an asterisk)

    (d)   authors' affiliations

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    2.2. Text body

    (f)    title

    (g)   abstract of 100–150 words

    (h)   4–6 keywords.

    (i)    article's body of text

    (j)    acknowledgments, if any

    (k)   references

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    (m)  a biosketch (a single paragraph of up to 80 words) for each author

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    The word count total of sections (a) through (l) above should be at least 6,000 words long and not exceed a total of ca. 8,000 words. Please refer to the call for papers for the issue or thematic section you are targeting or else write to the editor, in case there is some variation on the general arrangements.

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    Begin the References on a new page. The section should include all (and only!) references actually mentioned in the text. Subdivisions (e.g., Primary sources; Other references) may exceptionally be envisaged in certain cases, but in principle a single list is preferred. It is essential that the references are formatted to the specifications given in these guidelines, as these cannot be formatted automatically.

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    6.1. References should

    6.2. Special care with names

    This is a journal for Translation Studies. Special attention should be devoted to enter the correct spelling of any and all names of authors and editors. Also, please make sure that you understand the naming conventions in languages other than English so that you don't list or name an author with an incorrect name or surname. Finally, do not forget to include the names of translators in any entry of a reference that has them.

    6.3. Ordering references

    6.4. Examples

    Books

    Butler, Judith. 2006. Gender Trouble. 3rd ed. London: Routledge.

    Görlach, Manfred. 2003. English Words Abroad. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

    Spear, Norman E., and Ralph R. Miller, eds. 1981. Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

    Special issue of journal

    Pym, Anthony, ed. 2000. The Return to Ethics. Special issue of The Translator 7 (2). Manchester: St Jerome.

    Articles/chapters in book

    Adams, Clare A., and Anthony Dickinson. 1981. “Actions and Habits: Variation in Associative Representation during Instrumental Learning.” In Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms, edited by Norman E. Spear, and Ralph R. Miller, 143–186. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

    Articles in printed journals

    Bassnett, Susan. 2012. “Translation Studies at Cross-roads.” In The Known Unknowns of Translation Studies, ed. by Elke Brems, Reine Meylaerts, and Luc van Doorslaer, special issue of Target 24 (1): 15–25.

    Claes, Jeroen, and Luis A. Ortiz López. 2011. “Restricciones pragmáticas y sociales en la expresión de futuridad en el español de Puerto Rico [Pragmatic and social restrictions in the expression of the future in Puerto Rican Spanish].” Spanish in Context 8: 50–72.

    Rayson, Paul, Geoffrey N. Leech, and Mary Hodges. 1997. “Social Differentiation in the Use of English Vocabulary: Some Analyses of the Conversational Component of the British National Corpus.” International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2 (1): 120–132.

    Articles in online journals

    Kossinets, Gueorgi, and Duncan J. Watts. 2009. “Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network.” American Journal of Sociology 115: 405–50. Accessed February 28, 2010. DOI 10.1086/599247.

    Dynamic Language. 2010. “Google Puts Pressure on Interpreting Industry?” Dynamic Language Blog. Accessed 1 June 2012. http://blog.dynamiclanguage.com/2010/10/21/google-putspressure-on-interpreting- industry/.

    Dissertations and Theses

    Atkinson, David P. 2007. Some Psychological Competences That Predict Freelance Translator Success and Wellbeing in the Demanding Globalised Business Context. Masters Thesis, University of Auckland.

    Internet sites

    European Observatory for Plurilingualism. Accessed 22 April 2013. http://www.observatoireplurilinguisme.eu/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

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    In order to permit double-blind refereeing, submissions should not carry author information. In particular, please note the following:

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    Submission

    Authors wishing to submit articles for publication in TCB are requested to do so through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site. Please consult the guidelines and the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper. If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors by e-mail:
    alperkumcu at gmail.com and e.davitti at surrey.ac.uk

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    Subjects

    Sociology

    Sociology

    Translation & Interpreting Studies

    Interpreting
    Translation Studies

    Main BIC Subject

    CFP: Translation & interpretation

    Main BISAC Subject

    LAN023000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting