Volkova T.A. Translation Experiment and the Development of Empirical Translation Research in Russian Translation Studies

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2018.4.9

Tatyana A. Volkova

Candidate of Sciences (Philology), Associate Professor of Department of Translation Theory and Practice, Chelyabinsk State University

Bratyev Kashirinykh St., 129, 454001 Chelyabinsk, Russia

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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9335-403X

Abstract. The paper provides a brief overview of approaches to experiment in contemporary linguistic research in general and in translation studiesin particular. With a focus on Russian translation studies, we attempt to categorize translation experiments with regard to aim, data and methodology. Procedural (activity-based) translation experiments are aimed at describing the process of translation influenced by various factors. Didactic (competence-based) translation experiments are aimed mainly at improving the quality of professional translator training, at the same time reflecting, to a certain extent, the patterns of the translator's verbal and cognitive activity and providing certain methodological frameworks for experimental translation research. Psycholinguistic (association, reception) translation experiments are mainly product-based and aimed at the target text recipient, describing the patterns of target text perception and understanding. We see empirical (experimental) translation research as a developing discipline within translation studies in the Russian line of thought. The immediate goal is to build a pool of translation experiments and work out a translation experiment standard; define the interdisciplinary boundaries and describe the metalanguage of experimental (empirical) translation studies; specify the requirements for experimental procedures, data, and an experimental setting, as well as for selecting and briefing the participants; describe online and offline experimental techniques, dependent and independent variables, and metadata. 

Key words: experiment, translation, linguistic experiment, translation experiment, empirical translation studies, experimental linguistics.

Citation. Volkova T.A. Translation Experiment and the Development of Empirical Translation Research in Russian Translation Studies. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2, Yazykoznanie [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. Linguistics], 2018, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 102-116. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2018.4.9

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