Translation as meaning negotiator (2023)
Journal Article
Tyulenev, S. (2023). Translation as meaning negotiator. Translation Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700.2023.2208137

The article engages with the meaning-making function of translation. Three case studies demonstrate how translation performs its work of counteracting semiotic-semantic entropy. The first two cases show that translation can combat this entropy by ren... Read More about Translation as meaning negotiator.

Reconceptualizing translation and translators in the digital age: YouTube comment translation on China’s Bilibili (2023)
Journal Article
Zheng, B., Yu, J., Zhang, B., & Shen, C. (2023). Reconceptualizing translation and translators in the digital age: YouTube comment translation on China’s Bilibili. Translation Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/14781700.2023.2205423

A new participatory ecology of translation facilitated by digital technologies has significant implications for understanding translation and translators. This article examines YouTube comment translation on Bilibili in China to reconceptualize trans... Read More about Reconceptualizing translation and translators in the digital age: YouTube comment translation on China’s Bilibili.

Cosmopolitanism (2022)
Book Chapter
Sunderland, L. (2022). Cosmopolitanism. In Transnational Modern Languages (69-76). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2fjwpw7.11

How does interpreting performance correlate with note-taking process, note-taking product and note-reading process? An eye-tracking and pen-recording study (2022)
Journal Article
Kuang, H., & Zheng, B. (2022). How does interpreting performance correlate with note-taking process, note-taking product and note-reading process? An eye-tracking and pen-recording study. Across Languages and Cultures, 23(2), 167-186. https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2022.00281

This paper explores relationships between consecutive interpreting (CI) performance on the one hand, and interpreters' note-taking effort, note-taking product and note-reading effort, on the other hand. 20 professionals and 29 students consecutively... Read More about How does interpreting performance correlate with note-taking process, note-taking product and note-reading process? An eye-tracking and pen-recording study.

Translation and Diplomacy: The Ins and Outs of Social-Systemic Boundaries (2022)
Journal Article
Tyulenev, S. (2022). Translation and Diplomacy: The Ins and Outs of Social-Systemic Boundaries. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 33(3), 589-604. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2022.2113261

Boundaries of social systems stratify into internal and external layers with respective social agencies. Diplomacy is an internal – endohomorous – phenomenon that cannot reach the other side of the boundary without an external – ectohomorous – phenom... Read More about Translation and Diplomacy: The Ins and Outs of Social-Systemic Boundaries.

Le crime et la poétique dans le théâtre des Lumières. (2022)
Book Chapter
Wynn, T. (2022). Le crime et la poétique dans le théâtre des Lumières. In S. Marchand, M. Delon, & R. Bret-Vitoz (Eds.), Les Lumières du théâtre. Avec Pierre Frantz (257-264). Classiques Garnier

Platonic Love in Renaissance Discussions of Friendship (2022)
Book Chapter
Schachter, M. (2022). Platonic Love in Renaissance Discussions of Friendship. In C. S. O'Brien, & J. Dillon (Eds.), Platonic love from antiquity to the Renaissance (275-288). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525596.022

Elite friendship discourse in the Renaissance was shaped by a set of commonplaces inherited from classical antiquity according to which friends were virtuous, male, and few in number, and their relationships egalitarian and non-sexual. Neoplatonic lo... Read More about Platonic Love in Renaissance Discussions of Friendship.

Understanding Diverse Learning Abroad Through Case Study Research (2022)
Book Chapter
McKinnon, S. (2022). Understanding Diverse Learning Abroad Through Case Study Research. In J. McGregor, & J. Plews (Eds.), Designing Second Language Study Abroad Research. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05053-4_10

Working memory and interpreting studies (2022)
Book Chapter
Zheng, B., & Kuang, H. (2022). Working memory and interpreting studies. In J. W. Schwieter, & Z. (. Wen (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Working Memory and Language (698-721). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108955638.037

This chapter provides a review of studies on working memory (WM) and interpreting between the 1970s and 2010s, with special attention paid to simultaneous interpreting (SI) and consecutive interpreting (CI). Previous research has investigated three m... Read More about Working memory and interpreting studies.

Extralinguistic Consultation in English–Chinese Translation: A Study Drawing on Eye-Tracking and Screen-Recording Data (2022)
Journal Article
Cui, Y., & Zheng, B. (2022). Extralinguistic Consultation in English–Chinese Translation: A Study Drawing on Eye-Tracking and Screen-Recording Data. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.891997

Both linguistic and extralinguistic consultations are essential in translation practice and have been commonly investigated as an integral topic in previous studies. However, since extralinguistic information is usually longer in extent and not speci... Read More about Extralinguistic Consultation in English–Chinese Translation: A Study Drawing on Eye-Tracking and Screen-Recording Data.

Russia as an Epistemic Frame (2022)
Journal Article
Byford, A. (2022). Russia as an Epistemic Frame. Ab imperio, 1, 73-84

The interaction effect between source text complexity and machine translation quality on the task difficulty of NMT post-editing from English to Chinese: A multi-method study (2022)
Journal Article
Jia, Y., & Zheng, B. (2022). The interaction effect between source text complexity and machine translation quality on the task difficulty of NMT post-editing from English to Chinese: A multi-method study. Across Languages and Cultures, 23(1), 36-55. https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2022.00120

This study explores the interaction effect between source text (ST) complexity and machine translation (MT) quality on the task difficulty of neural machine translation (NMT) post-editing from English to Chinese. When investigating human effort exert... Read More about The interaction effect between source text complexity and machine translation quality on the task difficulty of NMT post-editing from English to Chinese: A multi-method study.

The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses (2022)
Journal Article
Sunderland, L. (2022). The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 52(2), 253-284. https://doi.org/10.1215/10829636-9687872

The description of living beings—the “ornements” of the earth in all their diversity—is a central task of Jean Corbechon's fourteenth‐century encyclopedia, the Livre des propriétés des choses, a translation into French of Bartholomaeus Anglicus's thi... Read More about The Restless Orders of Nature: Multispecies Classification in Jean Corbechon's Livre des propriétés des choses.

Monkey’s journey to the West: How manifold versions of one translation help to disseminate a classic Chinese original (2022)
Book Chapter
Luo, W., & Zheng, B. (2022). Monkey’s journey to the West: How manifold versions of one translation help to disseminate a classic Chinese original. In L. Qi, & S. Tobias (Eds.), Encountering China’s Past: Translation and Dissemination of Classical Chinese Literature (79-99). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0648-0_6

Many efforts have been paid to facilitate the world-wide circulation of Journey to the West, a classical Chinese literary canon. This article studies the dissemination of Journey by focusing on one of its many English translations, namely, Monkey: A... Read More about Monkey’s journey to the West: How manifold versions of one translation help to disseminate a classic Chinese original.

Note-taking effort in video remote interpreting: effects of source speech difficulty and interpreter work experience (2022)
Journal Article
Kuang, H., & Zheng, B. (2023). Note-taking effort in video remote interpreting: effects of source speech difficulty and interpreter work experience. Perspectives, 31(4), 724-744. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676x.2022.2053730

This paper reports on an investigation of the interactions between source speech difficulty, interpreters’ work experience and their note-taking behaviour in video remote interpreting. 20 professional interpreters and 29 student interpreters consecut... Read More about Note-taking effort in video remote interpreting: effects of source speech difficulty and interpreter work experience.

'Les vertus les plus hautes, les fautes les plus graves': l'affaire Lescombat (2022)
Book Chapter
Wynn, T. (in press). 'Les vertus les plus hautes, les fautes les plus graves': l'affaire Lescombat. In K. Gladu, H. Krief, & M. A. Bernier (Eds.), La vertu féminine, de la cour de Sceaux à la guillotine (233-247). Classiques Garnier

Touch and Movement in Chretien de Troyes's Chevalier de la Charrette (2022)
Book Chapter
Sunderland, L. (2022). Touch and Movement in Chretien de Troyes's Chevalier de la Charrette. In W. Scase, L. Ashe, P. Knox, & K. Robertson (Eds.), New Medieval Literatures (1-30). Boydell & Brewer. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800104884.001

Comparability of difficulty levels of translation tasks in CET-6 parallel test forms: evidence from product and process-based data (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, Y., & Zheng, B. (2022). Comparability of difficulty levels of translation tasks in CET-6 parallel test forms: evidence from product and process-based data. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, https://doi.org/10.1080/1750399x.2022.2036938

This study investigates the comparability of three parallel translation tasks selected from a College English Test Band-6 (CET-6) and explores the major linguistic features contributing to translation difficulty. Data obtained from the participants’... Read More about Comparability of difficulty levels of translation tasks in CET-6 parallel test forms: evidence from product and process-based data.

Time pressure in translation: Psychological and physiological measures (2022)
Journal Article
Weng, Y., Zheng, B., & Dong, Y. (2022). Time pressure in translation: Psychological and physiological measures. Target: International Journal of Translation Studies, 34(4), 601-626. https://doi.org/10.1075/target.20148.wen

Translators may experience significant psychological and physiological responses to time pressure. This study examines such responses with the aim of identifying valid indicators of time pressure in written translation. Forty-five postgraduates parti... Read More about Time pressure in translation: Psychological and physiological measures.

Impact of translation directions on information processing and translation quality: A triangulated study using eye-tracking and screen-recording（翻译方向对信息加工过程及质量的影响——基于眼动和屏幕记录等数据的多元互证） (2022)
Journal Article
Wang, X., Wang, L., & Zheng, B. (2022). Impact of translation directions on information processing and translation quality: A triangulated study using eye-tracking and screen-recording（翻译方向对信息加工过程及质量的影响——基于眼动和屏幕记录等数据的多元互证）