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translations. Jensen (2000) and Jääskeläinen looked at the influence of routine
vs. non-routine tasks on task performance and investigate the differences
between professionals and laymen. Künzli (2003) explored the impact of
emotional and affective states on subjects’ performance.
Some researchers in Denmark proposed including methods of logging the
writing process during translation to develop and corroborate data collected
by means of TAP. Their studies point towards a possible design combining
different analyzing methods that could be able to elicit and evaluate data
telling us more about the complex structures that govern the translation
process (Schmidt 2005).
The list of TAP studies presented above shows that it exists a
heterogeneous group of investigations. In fact, the first process-oriented
research projects started in isolation, independently of each other; therefore
they reflect very different translation theoretical frameworks ad research aims.
Furthermore, in the absence of previous research, methods of analysis
have been developed to describe a particular body of data. As a result,
applying the methods of analysis to other kinds of data has, as a rule,
resulted in modifications or in the introduction of new methods of
analysis (Jääskeläinen 1999: 46).
On the whole, the presence of different researches has the advantage to
shed light on different aspects of different kinds of translation processes. This
increases our understanding of the complex mechanisms underlying
translation. “Indeed the great variety of TAP approaches has highlighted the
fact that ‘the’ translation process does not exist; instead, there are many
different translation processes which are the outcome of many kinds of
factors. However, the differences in the kinds of data collected, analyses
carried out, and the overall goals of research have made it more difficult to
test the methods employed in previous experiments.
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