Eyetracking jako poszerzenie translatorycznej perspektywy badawczej Płużyczka
Eye Tracking – the Way to Expand the Research Perspective in Translation Studies

Author(s): Monika Płużyczka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: translation studies; new research perspectives; eye tracking;mental processes;
Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the eye tracking method as an innovative way to extend the boundaries of the research possibilities and our knowledge about translation. Eye tracking consists in registration of eye movements and the analysis of eye movement parameters during information perception and processing. The method is based on the assumption that eye movement parameters are indicators of particular mental processes involved in the translation task. The author shows possibilities of eye tracking by providing various experimental results and their interpretation, as well as by pointing out the parameters the analysis of which leads to translation-relevant outcomes. In the article the last findings are also presented: “spatial saccadic movements”, i.e. saccades directed beyond the stimulus. The reasons for that kind of movements proved to be highly interesting: they are related to the use of long-term memory. The author of the article also presents verification of the implemented parameters and examination of various analytical units. Such vast procedure made it possible to determine the analysis of which units and parameters provided the most reliable and revealing results. Moreover, the analysis resulted in quite unexpected (as regards other interpretations that have been introduced so far) outcomes that enabled to significantly revise the role of some eye tracking parameters. Generally, the findings of the selected research procedure made it possible to introduce epistemic and methodological fundaments of eye tracking translation studies.

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