Over the last decade, Think-aloud Protocols (TAPs) have been used extensively in process-oriented Translation Studies (TS). The serious questions regarding the experimental validity of this research methodology when applied to translation have nonetheless often remained unspoken. This paper surveys the breakthroughs as well as the limits of the growing body of literature dealing with TAPs in TS, points at the necessity to take issues of experimental, theoretical and environmental validity more seriously, and offers suggestions for improvements. The claim is that the risks involved in the adoption of a lax experimental methodology in TAP studies, often underestimated in the past, may invalidate not only the results obtained in the single projects, but, crucially, the method as a whole. © 2001 John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Bernardini S. (2001). Think-aloud protocols in translation research: Achievements, limits, future prospects. TARGET, 13(2), 241-263 [10.1075/target.13.2.03ber].

Think-aloud protocols in translation research: Achievements, limits, future prospects

Bernardini S.
2001

Abstract

Over the last decade, Think-aloud Protocols (TAPs) have been used extensively in process-oriented Translation Studies (TS). The serious questions regarding the experimental validity of this research methodology when applied to translation have nonetheless often remained unspoken. This paper surveys the breakthroughs as well as the limits of the growing body of literature dealing with TAPs in TS, points at the necessity to take issues of experimental, theoretical and environmental validity more seriously, and offers suggestions for improvements. The claim is that the risks involved in the adoption of a lax experimental methodology in TAP studies, often underestimated in the past, may invalidate not only the results obtained in the single projects, but, crucially, the method as a whole. © 2001 John Benjamins Publishing Company.
2001
Bernardini S. (2001). Think-aloud protocols in translation research: Achievements, limits, future prospects. TARGET, 13(2), 241-263 [10.1075/target.13.2.03ber].
Bernardini S.
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