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Navigating the web: a study on professional translators’ behaviour

Shih, Y-Y; (2021) Navigating the web: a study on professional translators’ behaviour. In: Wang, C and Zheng, B, (eds.) Empirical Studies of Translation and Interpreting: The Post-Structuralist Approach. (pp. 74-92). Routledge: London, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

Despite the importance of online information seeking behaviours being recognised by researchers (Enriquez Raido 2011, 2014, Gough 2015, Hvelplund 2017, 2019), there are only a handful of studies focusing on them. This study therefore sets out to investigate how professional translators conduct their primary action (i.e. query behaviour) and secondary action (i.e. browsing and clicking behaviour) in navigating the web. Unlike previous studies, it adopts a qualitative eye tracking methodology, i.e. eye tracking stimulated think-aloud with ten professional translators. A model of translators’ primary and secondary actions is presented as well as how these actions interact with one another as a result.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Navigating the web: a study on professional translators’ behaviour
ISBN: 1000389847
ISBN-13: 9781000389845
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://www.routledge.com/Empirical-Studies-of-Tra...
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Information seeking behaviour, eye tracking, web search, browsing and clicking behaviour
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS > Translation Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10128345
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