Binghan Zheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 5945912 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Binghan Zheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Binghan |
| FAMILY NAME | Zheng |
| SIGNATURE | ZHENG B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5302-4709 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Competence, Translation, and Interpreting
The notion of competence provides a basis to discuss the link between task requirements and intellectual abilities. In translation and interpreting, competence is used to describe the traits and abilities necessary for undertaking translation/interpreting tasks or projects. However, the definition of translation/interpreting competence is mixed as a result of different aims and approaches of investigation. To date, competence has been investigate…
A dual route of prediction-by-production and prediction-by-association during simultaneous interpreting: Evidence from the visual world paradigm
Despite growing interest in prediction during simultaneous interpreting (SI), the real-time processing mechanisms supporting it remain underexplored. This study employed the visual world paradigm to investigate whether interpreters can predict upcoming content while simultaneously interpreting multi-sentence paragraphs and to examine the mechanisms underlying prediction. Interpreting students and professionals simultaneously interpreted four para…
Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training
Simultaneous interpreting (SI) is an intensive multitasking activity that requires coordination of a variety of linguistic and cognitive control mechanisms. Research has shown that interpreters perform better in tasks that require domain-general executive functions (EF), but the question remains whether such cognitive alternation is a result of interpreting experience or it reflects a selection bias that only cognitively capable people are recrui…
Time pressure and resource constraint as stressors in translation: A psychophysiological and behavioural study
This study examines how time pressure and resource constraint (limited access to external aids and reference materials) function as potential stressors affecting cognitive processing and performance in translation. Employing a multimethod approach that combines psychophysiological measures (heart rate, skin conductance, pupil size, and self-reported anxiety) with behavioural data from eye-tracking and keylogging, the study investigates translator…
Translating food metaphors in Chinese literary discourse: A case study of Yu Hua’s The Seventh Day
Automaticity in translation: Effects of time pressure and work experience
Automaticity is a key construct in skill acquisition. This study explored how time pressure and work experience affect the degree of translation automaticity in novice (N = 35) and experienced translators (N = 30) using eye-tracking and keystroke-logging metrics. Four aspects of automaticity in translation were examined, namely, processing speed, degree of parallel processing, effort taken to produce each production unit and attention allocation …
Introduction: (Re-)Conceptualizing Translation in Translation Studies
The classic phrase “a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together”, taken from Ecclesiastes 3:5 of the King James Version of the Bible, is generally interpreted as a reflection o
Reconceptualizing translation and translators in the digital age: YouTube comment translation on China’s Bilibili
A new participatory ecology of translation facilitated by digital technologies has significant implications for understanding translation and translators. This article examines YouTube comment translation on Bilibili in China to reconceptualize translation and translators by taking the Will Smith-Chris Rock confrontation at the Oscars 2022 and the assassination of Shinzo Abe as two illustrative case studies. It demonstrates that Chinese netizens …
Intercultural Communication in Interpreting: Power and Choices, written by Jinhyun Cho
As globalisation and migration continue to reshape the world, there is a growing need for language-related services.Interpreters, as mediators between speakers of different languages, play a critical role in promoting intercultural communications.However, it is not only language barriers that interpreters are expected to address, but also gaps in the knowledge, beliefs and values that are rooted in the social norms of the two or more respective c…
Time pressure in translation: Psychological and physiological measures
Translators may experience significant psychological and physiological responses to time pressure. This study examines such responses with the aim of identifying valid indicators of time pressure in written translation. Forty-five postgraduates participated in the study, translating three comparable English texts into Chinese under three time conditions ( Short, Standard , and Free ). A positive relation between time stringency and the arousal le…
The interaction effect between source text complexity and machine translation quality on the task difficulty of NMT post-editing from English to Chinese: A multi-method study
This study explores the interaction effect between source text (ST) complexity and machine translation (MT) quality on the task difficulty of neural machine translation (NMT) post-editing from English to Chinese. When investigating human effort exerted in post-editing, existing studies have seldom taken both ST complexity and MT quality levels into account, and have mainly focused on MT systems used before the emergence of NMT. Drawing on process…
How does interpreting performance correlate with note-taking process, note-taking product and note-reading process? An eye-tracking and pen-recording study
This paper explores relationships between consecutive interpreting (CI) performance on the one hand, and interpreters' note-taking effort, note-taking product and note-reading effort, on the other hand. 20 professionals and 29 students consecutively interpreted two easy segments and two difficult segments in an English (L2) speech, with their eye fixations on the notes and handwriting on the digital pad being registered through eye-tracking and p…
Note-taking effort in video remote interpreting: Effects of source speech difficulty and interpreter work experience
This paper reports on an investigation of the interactions between source speech difficulty, interpreters’ work experience and their note-taking behaviour in video remote interpreting. 20 professional interpreters and 29 student interpreters consecutively interpreted two easy segments and two difficult segments from English (L2) to Chinese (L1), with their eye and pen movements being registered by a Tobii eye-tracker and a Wacom digital pen. The …
Who has the final say? English translation of online lockdown writing Wuhan Diary
As a testimony to the lockdown life in Wuhan caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary received worldwide attention while triggering extensive controversies in China. Drawing on the concepts of agent and voice in translation studies, this article explores the contextual, paratextual and textual voices of translation agents in the English translation of Wuhan Diary (2020) and their power negotiations, to reveal who has the final say…
Consultation behaviour with online resources in English-Chinese translation: An eye-tracking, screen-recording and retrospective study
This paper investigates the interaction between translators’ perceived translation problems and their online consultation behaviours, and how different consultation behaviours affect translation acceptability. Previous studies indicate that online consultation includes various types of complex information-searching behaviours which, to a great extent, depend on the personal preferences of the web users. In this study, 38 MA translation students t…
Interpreting impoliteness and over-politeness: An investigation into interpreters' cognitive effort, coping strategies and their effects
This paper investigates how politeness is treated in interpreter-mediated events and how the treatment is related to interpreters' pragmatic competence. An empirical study was conducted for this purpose, in which twenty-two professional and student interpreters were asked to work in a liaison interpreting mode. An analysis of the interpreters' cognitive effort involved (i.e. the interpreting process) and the coping strategies employed (i.e. the i…
A History of Modern Translation Knowledge: Sources, concepts, effects
A History of Modern Translation Knowledge is the first attempt to map the coming into being of modern thinking about translation. It breaks with the well-established tradition of viewing history through the reductive lens of schools, theories, turns or interdisciplinary exchanges. It also challenges the artificial distinction between past and present and it sustains that the latter’s historical roots go back far beyond the 1970s. Translation Stud…
Gender difference of hedging in interpreting for chinese government press conferences: A corpus-based study
This paper aims to examine gender differences in hedging in Chinese–English conference interpreting based on a transcribed parallel corpus. The point of departure was to test Holmes’s (1986, 1988a) claims that women do not necessarily employ more hedges than men but that women’s use of hedges tends to focus more on interpersonal relationships while men’s is more on propositional precision. Hyland’s (1996a, 1996b) model in which hedges were catego…
Visiting elements thought to be “inactive”: Non-human actors in Arthur Waley’s translation of Journey to the West
This paper applies actor–network theory (ANT) to study the non-human agents that participate in the translation and publication process of Monkey, an English translation of the Chinese classic Xi You Ji. The materials used consist mainly of the letters exchanged between the publisher George Allen & Unwin, the translator Arthur Waley, and the jacket and title page designer Duncan Grant. Moreover, the “Preface” of the translation written by the tra…
Reconstructing a narrative, reinterpreting a history: A case study of translating Big Breasts and Wide Hips
Literary translation in the English-speaking community has become the most significant pathway for foreign works to enter the World Literature scene and compete for international recognitions. It is therefore worth examining the role of translation in literary canonisation. This research studies the “Mobel” phenomenon of the 2012 Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, selecting one of Mo’s most representative works – Big Breasts and Wide Hips as the material for…
The role of consultation sources revisited: An empirical study of English–Chinese translation
This paper contributes to empirical research into expertise in translation by investigating how translators approach source texts and how they use consultation sources, specifically dictionaries, to inform their translation choices. Subjects participating in the study described were divided into three groups – novice, semi-professional and professional translators – based on their levels of experience in translation. The aim of the study describe…
The role of consultation sources revisited: An empirical study of English–Chinese translation
This paper contributes to empirical research into expertise in translation by investigating how translators approach source texts and how they use consultation sources, specifically dictionaries, to inform their translation choices. Subjects participating in the study described were divided into three groups – novice, semi-professional and professional translators – based on their levels of experience in translation. The aim of the study describe…
Who has the final say? English translation of online lockdown writing Wuhan Diary
As a testimony to the lockdown life in Wuhan caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary received worldwide attention while triggering extensive controversies in China. Drawing on the concepts of agent and voice in translation studies, this article explores the contextual, paratextual and textual voices of translation agents in the English translation of Wuhan Diary (2020) and their power negotiations, to reveal who has the final say…
Consultation behaviour with online resources in English-Chinese translation: An eye-tracking, screen-recording and retrospective study
This paper investigates the interaction between translators’ perceived translation problems and their online consultation behaviours, and how different consultation behaviours affect translation acceptability. Previous studies indicate that online consultation includes various types of complex information-searching behaviours which, to a great extent, depend on the personal preferences of the web users. In this study, 38 MA translation students t…
The role of consultation sources revisited: An empirical study of English–Chinese translation
This paper contributes to empirical research into expertise in translation by investigating how translators approach source texts and how they use consultation sources, specifically dictionaries, to inform their translation choices. Subjects participating in the study described were divided into three groups – novice, semi-professional and professional translators – based on their levels of experience in translation. The aim of the study describe…
Reconstructing a narrative, reinterpreting a history: A case study of translating Big Breasts and Wide Hips
Literary translation in the English-speaking community has become the most significant pathway for foreign works to enter the World Literature scene and compete for international recognitions. It is therefore worth examining the role of translation in literary canonisation. This research studies the “Mobel” phenomenon of the 2012 Nobel Laureate Mo Yan, selecting one of Mo’s most representative works – Big Breasts and Wide Hips as the material for…
Gender difference of hedging in interpreting for chinese government press conferences: A corpus-based study
This paper aims to examine gender differences in hedging in Chinese–English conference interpreting based on a transcribed parallel corpus. The point of departure was to test Holmes’s (1986, 1988a) claims that women do not necessarily employ more hedges than men but that women’s use of hedges tends to focus more on interpersonal relationships while men’s is more on propositional precision. Hyland’s (1996a, 1996b) model in which hedges were catego…
Visiting elements thought to be “inactive”: Non-human actors in Arthur Waley’s translation of Journey to the West
This paper applies actor–network theory (ANT) to study the non-human agents that participate in the translation and publication process of Monkey, an English translation of the Chinese classic Xi You Ji. The materials used consist mainly of the letters exchanged between the publisher George Allen & Unwin, the translator Arthur Waley, and the jacket and title page designer Duncan Grant. Moreover, the “Preface” of the translation written by the tra…
A History of Modern Translation Knowledge: Sources, concepts, effects
A History of Modern Translation Knowledge is the first attempt to map the coming into being of modern thinking about translation. It breaks with the well-established tradition of viewing history through the reductive lens of schools, theories, turns or interdisciplinary exchanges. It also challenges the artificial distinction between past and present and it sustains that the latter’s historical roots go back far beyond the 1970s. Translation Stud…
Consultation behaviour with online resources in English-Chinese translation: An eye-tracking, screen-recording and retrospective study
This paper investigates the interaction between translators’ perceived translation problems and their online consultation behaviours, and how different consultation behaviours affect translation acceptability. Previous studies indicate that online consultation includes various types of complex information-searching behaviours which, to a great extent, depend on the personal preferences of the web users. In this study, 38 MA translation students t…
Interpreting impoliteness and over-politeness: An investigation into interpreters' cognitive effort, coping strategies and their effects
This paper investigates how politeness is treated in interpreter-mediated events and how the treatment is related to interpreters' pragmatic competence. An empirical study was conducted for this purpose, in which twenty-two professional and student interpreters were asked to work in a liaison interpreting mode. An analysis of the interpreters' cognitive effort involved (i.e. the interpreting process) and the coping strategies employed (i.e. the i…
Who has the final say? English translation of online lockdown writing Wuhan Diary
As a testimony to the lockdown life in Wuhan caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary received worldwide attention while triggering extensive controversies in China. Drawing on the concepts of agent and voice in translation studies, this article explores the contextual, paratextual and textual voices of translation agents in the English translation of Wuhan Diary (2020) and their power negotiations, to reveal who has the final say…
Time pressure in translation: Psychological and physiological measures
Translators may experience significant psychological and physiological responses to time pressure. This study examines such responses with the aim of identifying valid indicators of time pressure in written translation. Forty-five postgraduates participated in the study, translating three comparable English texts into Chinese under three time conditions ( Short, Standard , and Free ). A positive relation between time stringency and the arousal le…
The interaction effect between source text complexity and machine translation quality on the task difficulty of NMT post-editing from English to Chinese: A multi-method study
This study explores the interaction effect between source text (ST) complexity and machine translation (MT) quality on the task difficulty of neural machine translation (NMT) post-editing from English to Chinese. When investigating human effort exerted in post-editing, existing studies have seldom taken both ST complexity and MT quality levels into account, and have mainly focused on MT systems used before the emergence of NMT. Drawing on process…
How does interpreting performance correlate with note-taking process, note-taking product and note-reading process? An eye-tracking and pen-recording study
This paper explores relationships between consecutive interpreting (CI) performance on the one hand, and interpreters' note-taking effort, note-taking product and note-reading effort, on the other hand. 20 professionals and 29 students consecutively interpreted two easy segments and two difficult segments in an English (L2) speech, with their eye fixations on the notes and handwriting on the digital pad being registered through eye-tracking and p…
Note-taking effort in video remote interpreting: Effects of source speech difficulty and interpreter work experience
This paper reports on an investigation of the interactions between source speech difficulty, interpreters’ work experience and their note-taking behaviour in video remote interpreting. 20 professional interpreters and 29 student interpreters consecutively interpreted two easy segments and two difficult segments from English (L2) to Chinese (L1), with their eye and pen movements being registered by a Tobii eye-tracker and a Wacom digital pen. The …
Introduction: (Re-)Conceptualizing Translation in Translation Studies
The classic phrase “a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together”, taken from Ecclesiastes 3:5 of the King James Version of the Bible, is generally interpreted as a reflection o
Reconceptualizing translation and translators in the digital age: YouTube comment translation on China’s Bilibili
A new participatory ecology of translation facilitated by digital technologies has significant implications for understanding translation and translators. This article examines YouTube comment translation on Bilibili in China to reconceptualize translation and translators by taking the Will Smith-Chris Rock confrontation at the Oscars 2022 and the assassination of Shinzo Abe as two illustrative case studies. It demonstrates that Chinese netizens …
Intercultural Communication in Interpreting: Power and Choices, written by Jinhyun Cho
As globalisation and migration continue to reshape the world, there is a growing need for language-related services.Interpreters, as mediators between speakers of different languages, play a critical role in promoting intercultural communications.However, it is not only language barriers that interpreters are expected to address, but also gaps in the knowledge, beliefs and values that are rooted in the social norms of the two or more respective c…
Automaticity in translation: Effects of time pressure and work experience
Automaticity is a key construct in skill acquisition. This study explored how time pressure and work experience affect the degree of translation automaticity in novice (N = 35) and experienced translators (N = 30) using eye-tracking and keystroke-logging metrics. Four aspects of automaticity in translation were examined, namely, processing speed, degree of parallel processing, effort taken to produce each production unit and attention allocation …
Translating food metaphors in Chinese literary discourse: A case study of Yu Hua’s The Seventh Day
Competence, Translation, and Interpreting
The notion of competence provides a basis to discuss the link between task requirements and intellectual abilities. In translation and interpreting, competence is used to describe the traits and abilities necessary for undertaking translation/interpreting tasks or projects. However, the definition of translation/interpreting competence is mixed as a result of different aims and approaches of investigation. To date, competence has been investigate…
A dual route of prediction-by-production and prediction-by-association during simultaneous interpreting: Evidence from the visual world paradigm
Despite growing interest in prediction during simultaneous interpreting (SI), the real-time processing mechanisms supporting it remain underexplored. This study employed the visual world paradigm to investigate whether interpreters can predict upcoming content while simultaneously interpreting multi-sentence paragraphs and to examine the mechanisms underlying prediction. Interpreting students and professionals simultaneously interpreted four para…
Is interpreter advantage a gift or an effect of training? Cognitive changes and interpreting acquisition at the early stage of training
Simultaneous interpreting (SI) is an intensive multitasking activity that requires coordination of a variety of linguistic and cognitive control mechanisms. Research has shown that interpreters perform better in tasks that require domain-general executive functions (EF), but the question remains whether such cognitive alternation is a result of interpreting experience or it reflects a selection bias that only cognitively capable people are recrui…
Time pressure and resource constraint as stressors in translation: A psychophysiological and behavioural study
This study examines how time pressure and resource constraint (limited access to external aids and reference materials) function as potential stressors affecting cognitive processing and performance in translation. Employing a multimethod approach that combines psychophysiological measures (heart rate, skin conductance, pupil size, and self-reported anxiety) with behavioural data from eye-tracking and keylogging, the study investigates translator…
Computer Science (15 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (10 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (9 works) · Interpreter (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · History (5 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 works)