Aptitude for interpreting: the predictive value of cognitive fluency

Song, Shuxian; Li, Dechao

doi:10.1080/1750399x.2023.2170045

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“…Cognitive loads do not depend solely on the interpreting task or interpreter characteristics: "the amount of workload someone experiences results from the interaction between the situation with its properties and demands and the individual capabilities and resources" (Boos et al, 2022, Introduction). In interpreting studies, interpreterrelated factors have attracted researchers' attention (Young and Stanton, 2001;Macnamara, 2012;Boos et al, 2022;Song and Li, 2023). However, only a few studies have looked in a unified way at interpreter characteristics and their phraseological use Huang, 2011, 2013;Tang and Jiang, 2022).…”

Section: Connecting Fs With Interpreter Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chunking in simultaneous interpreting: the impact of task complexity and translation directionality on lexical bundles

Huang,

Li,

Guo

2023

Front. Psychol.

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This study explored the use of phraseological frames (p-frames), a type of lexical bundle, by simultaneous interpreters as a strategy for managing cognitive loads. Specifically, using a comparable corpus of United Nations Security Council conferences, the study employed kfNgram to automatically identify the p-frames, and investigated their variations, regarding frequency, fixedness, structures, and functions among L1, L1–L2, and L2–L1 texts, which differ in cognitive loads due to task complexity and directionality of interpreting. The findings indicated that interpreters used more p-frames as cognitive loads increased; No significant difference was identified in fixedness as all texts tended to employ heavily formulaic and relatively fixed p-frames. Directionality correlated with grammatical preferences, with retour interpreting relying more on content-word-based p-frames. Additionally, task complexity correlated with functional preferences, with self-expression characterized by more stance expressions in the simple task. This study innovatively addressed the interaction of two factors that generate cognitive loads in interpreting and filled a research gap by providing empirical evidence on how directionality affects the use of formulaic language.

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confidence: 99%