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Gaze Behaviors, Interpreting Styles, and Language Specificity

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Eye-Tracking Processes and Styles in Sight Translation

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The previous chapter presented the results of each of the six research questions on sight translation styles. This chapter attempts to provide my own interpretations of the findings and discuss the implications of the results for cognitive processes of sight translation. Section 6.1 will begin with a discussion of global translation styles, namely eye-movement behaviors in preparation and in actual sight translation, followed by discussions on how gaze behaviors in preparation influence gaze behaviors in actual sight translation, and behavioral styles of reading-speech coordination at the textual level in Sects. 6.2 and 6.3, respectively. The findings related to local translation styles, namely problem identification behaviors, problem-solving behaviors, and local coordination behaviors as affected by translation problems, will be discussed in Sects. 6.4, 6.5, and 6.6, respectively. Lastly, Sect. 6.7 will discuss how language-pair specificity plays a role in interpreters’ eye-movement behaviors in sight translation, followed by a discussion of the usefulness of eye-tracking methodology in Sect. 6.8.

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Su, W. (2020). Gaze Behaviors, Interpreting Styles, and Language Specificity. In: Eye-Tracking Processes and Styles in Sight Translation. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5675-3_6

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