Psycholinguistic aspects of simultaneous interpretation

Translation in its innermost part is a psychological process, therefore, the identification of the psychological basis of translation is a necessary prerequisite for the knowledge of its essence. This explains the connection between translation theory and psycholinguistics.

Psycholinguistics studies the processes of speech generation and perception in their correlation with the language system. This science seeks to interpret language as a dynamic system of human speech activity. Since the object of psycholinguistics is speech activity, and the object of translation theory is a special type of speech activity, the tasks of these disciplines largely overlap.

The data of psycholinguistics are used in the study of the features of simultaneous translation and the mechanisms that ensure the simultaneous processes of perception of the original message and the generation of the translation text. Simultaneous translation is one of the...