Rozszerzenie podstaw rekonstrukcji mentalnych procesów translacyjnych o wyniki badań okulograficznych i ankietowych

The Eye-Tracking Experimental Linguistics Laboratory conducted a study on translation process of German administrative acts into Polish. The aim of the study was to identify eye movements and associated mental processes during the perception of parts of speech in the German administrative acts (source text) during the translation process. Research method: The study was carried on a group of 15 participants. Eye-tracking analisys was performed using SMI RED 500 eyetracker and utilized the method of dynamic areas of interest (Dynamic AOI). Dyamic AOI-based method allowed the participants to freely move the windows on the monitor, use a PDF document, a text editor and a web browser at the same time. Results: Fixation duration (Fd) and Fixation Count (Fc) counts were significantly higher during perception of target text (Polish) than source text (German). There were no significant differences in FD between parts of the speech in source text, unlike the target text there were multiple differences were observed. In both source and final text there were multiple differences in Fc between different parts of the speech. There were no significant differences between perception of nouns and non-nouns in either text.Conclusions: Fixation count and fixation duration seem to be related with different mental processes during translation. Therefore, measuring eye movement with those parameters might be useful in further studies on translation process. Fixation count was more useful in investigating of mental processes than fixation duration.