Neuropsychologische und Neurolinguistische Aspekte des Simultandolmetschprozesses

Abstract

One of the most promising investigational approaches to the study of simultaneous interpretation is towards the field of neurolinguistics and neuropsychology. Several related studies described in the present paper showed: i) the existence of neural systems for translating from L1 to L2 and from L2 to L1, which are independent of language comprehension and production systems; ii) the activation of both cerebral hemispheres during simultaneous interpretation; and iii) the absence of the usual right-ear advantage in the processing of verbal material due to the interpreters' general habit of listening to the incoming message with one ear only for the purpose of controlling their own output with the other ear.

Simultaneous Interpretation (SI): An Information Processing Approach and Its Implications for Practical SI

“…Massaro (1978) extends this definition by stating that the simultaneous interpreter must decode the surface structure of the original message, map it into some abstract representation, take this same abstract representation and map it into a new surface structure, and finally articulate the translated message. (Massaro 1978, 299) Although she mentions that the text segments of the TL message should be detached from the surface structure of the original message, Daro (1992) formulates the intention "Form, lnhalt und Prosodie korrekt wiederzugeben" (Daro 1992 The object of translation, the text, is permanently available as a whole, i.e., the entire message to be transformed serves as the context in which the units of meaning are identified and 'interpreted'. The analysis of units in SI, on the other hand, has to be based on preceding context, prediction and the interpreter's linguistic, domain-specific, and general knowledge, and has to be started almost immediately after the input has been received.…”