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About This Book
This innovative volume builds on Michael S. Gazzaniga's Interpreter Theory toward radically expanding the theoretical and methodological scope of translational priming research.
Gazzaniga's Interpreter Theory, based on empirical studies carried out with split-brain patients, argues for the Left-Brain Interpreter (LBI), a module in the brain's left hemisphere that seeks to make sense of their world based on available evidenceāand, where no evidence is available, primed by past memories, confabulates coherence. The volume unpacks this idea in translation research to test whether translators are primed to confabulate by the LBI in their own work. Robinson investigates existing empirical research to test hypotheses on the translational links between the LBI and cognitive priming, the Right-Brain Interpreter and affective priming, and the Collective Full-Brain Interpreter and social priming. Taken together, the book seeks to open translational priming studies up to the full range of cognitive, affective, and social primes and to prime cognitive translation researchers to implement this broader dynamic in future research.
This book will be of interest to scholars in translation and interpreting studies, especially those working in cognitive translation and interpreting studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Prime Time
- Part I The Left-Brain Interpreter (LBI): Cognitive Priming
- Part II The Right-Brain Interpreter (RBI): Affective Priming
- Part III The Collective Full-Body Interpreter (CFBI): Social Priming
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index