O processo de segmentação cognitiva de tradutores em formação

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the cognitive segmentation process of translation trainees. We have drawn on Buchweitz e Alves’ (2006) study on segmentation, and Dragsted (2005) and Rodrigues (2009), which investigate the cognitive segmentation and the use of translation memory systems in the process of professional translators in the language pairs Danish- English, German-Portuguese and English-Portuguese respectively. By using Translog program, three English-Portuguese direct translation tasks were carried out by six translation trainees (translation of a journalistic text, a technical-scientific text and a subtitle script text). It was hypothesized that there would be a difference in the direct translation processes in relation to the size and type of segment used by the six subjects in the three different types of text due to cognitive effort made in each text individually. Data was analyzed in Excel program through graphs of each text of the six research participants. Smaller segments mainly were processed at the level of word/syntagma/sentence in the technical-scientific and journalistic texts which were considered difficult to translate by the research participants. Regarding the subtitled text, largest segments mainly were processed at the level of prayer and transentencial.