Cognitive Issues in Bible Translation: The Biblical Text in the Context of Human Experience. Issue 1 (April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Shaw, R. Daniel; DeLoach, Danny; Grimes, Jonathan; Luchivia, John O.; Silzer, Sheryl; West, Amy
• Is Part Of: Bible translator. Volume 71:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 38
• Page End: 56
• Publication Date: 2020-04
• Subjects: cognitive studies -- schema -- multilingualism -- reflexivity -- spirituality -- cognitive environment; 220.405
• DOI: 10.1177/2051677020907676
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2051-6770

Abstract

Cognitive studies affect all disciplines that reflect the connection between the mind–brain and human behavior. To state the obvious, Bible translation is a multidisciplinary task influenced by cognitive processes. What, then, do Bible translators need to know about the intended communication of a biblical text on one hand and a people's context-based inferences on the other? Can these disparate, but necessarily interactive, environments blend to reflect a totality of knowledge from the content of the biblical text? Together, the coauthors explore a variety of cognitive processes that reflect on the relationship between translation and human behavior. Our objective is to show how translated biblical text interfaces with human cognition to affect behavior in specific contexts.