Translation Cognitive Process

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visual sensory perception, comprehension, analysis, processing,

monitoring and production. All of these activities are constrained by


many factors, some of which will be discussed in the following
chapters. The cognitive process can be depicted graphically as follows.

Sensory
perception
Short-term
memory

Neuro-cognitive
Comprehension activities

Source
Long-term language text
memory Deconstruction

Searching for,
Target
locating & Translator
Matching language text
retrieving
information

Writing, typing,
Multi-level Reconstruction recording
decisions

Production Motoric activity

Figure 11 — A cognitive model of translation

This process comprises (1) visual sensory perception, which involves


active reading, (2) comprehension and (3) production.

1
Translation
Cognitive Process

2
Visual sensory
See text

Legibility Source Text


Readability Sensory
3
perception
Active reading Cognitive analysis

4 Information processing
capacity
Comprehension
Linguistic competence
Certainty
Determinacy
Short term memory

Production Target text

Per translation unit

Figure 12 — Perception, comprehension and production at the translation


unit level

Towards a Theory of Constraints in Translation — Draft Version 0.2


Work in Progress — © 1999, Ali Darwish. All Rights Reserved
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