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intuitions as theoretical evidence? (2) Is the formal method with experimental procedures preferable to the informal method based on the judgment of linguistic professionals? It seems apparent that the first problem is not in general felt to be urgent
linguistics in metaphor research ( Deignan 2005 ; Stefanowitsch 2006 ). Experimental procedures have always been present in Conceptual Metaphor Theory and exerted significant theoretical influence on it ( Gibbs 1994 , 2017 ). We have also come across new
regarding their demographic information and interpreting background. The experiment lasted approximately from 80 to 90 min. Fig. 2. Experimental procedures 3.5 Data and analysis 3.5.1 Data screening The quality of the eye-tracking data was assessed with
Coping with syntactic complexity in English–Chinese sight translation by translation and interpreting students.
An eye-tracking investigation
discourse condition. The task order of the two parts was randomized, with a 40-min break between the two task conditions. Both the reading and STR experiments began with a warm-up practice to familiarize the participants with the experimental procedures. In
.0.1. After that, they practiced 10 trials to be well familiar with the experimental procedure. Finally, the experiment started. The experiment was conducted in the following order: (1) a cross (+) for fixation appeared on the center of the computer screen for
lower window, with SimSun Typeface set at 16 points, also with double line spacing. 3.4 Experimental procedure Each participant carried out two PE tasks: post-editing one MT output with high
Likert scale, in which 1 meant strongly disagree and 5, strongly agree. 2.3 Experimental procedures The experiment was approved by the Ethics Committee of the College of Foreign Languages at Hunan University. All informants were guaranteed both
