Cognitive Processing Routes in Consecutive Interpreting

Dr. Xiaodong Liu is Head of the Business English Department at the School of Foreign Studies, and Director of the Center for Studies of Translation and Cognition, Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology, China.He received his Ph.D. in Translation Studies from the University of Macau, Macao (2018). His main research interests include translation process research, corpus-assisted translation studies, and translation teaching research. He has (co-)initiated numerous translation process research projects at various levels, e.g., Corpus-assisted Translation Process Research (HUHST Startup Research Fund) and Corpus-assisted Research on Neurocognitive Processing Routes (19C0971) supported by the Education Department of Hunan Province. He has published numerous articles on translation studies in national and international journals, such as Babel, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Across Languages and Cultures, T & I Review, Foreign Language Education, Chinese Science & Technology Translators Journal, and so on.He is Member of the Macao Federation of Translators, and created and is Vice President of the Loudi Association of Translators and Interpreters.

• Introduction.- Interpreting Process.- An Integrated Neurocognitive Theory of Translating and Interpreting.- The Corpus-assisted Approach to Translation Process Research.- Source and Target Material.- A Parallel Bilingual CI Corpus.- Example Analyses.- Interpreting Patterns.- A Theoretical Account of the Interpreting Patterns.- Research Questions Revisited.- Conclusions and Future Perspectives.