The sociological turn in the interpreter’s role

Jiang, Lihua; Han, Chong; Jiang, Jinlin; Yang, Feng

doi:10.1075/tis.9.2.07jia

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“…Since interpreters are specialized in listening, translating and producing spoken discourse, their ability to understand and reproduce causal relations and maintain coherence should be especially well developed. Accordingly, Jiang, Han, Jiang, and Feng (2014), for instance, have also emphasized coherence and topic continuity in their modern Triadic Discourse Interpreting Model (TRIM).…”

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Interpreters – experts in careful listening and efficient encoding? Findings of a prose recall test

Hiltunen

Vik

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Research Questions: The purpose of the present experiment was to study interpreters’ recall of spoken prose. Design: The prose recall of simultaneous and consecutive interpreters was compared to that of foreign language teachers and non-linguistic experts. The professional experience of participants (21–24 participants in each group) was 10 years as a aminimum. The auditory presentation of the prose passage to be recalled, divided into eleven speech sequences, resembled the working conditions of interpreters. Data: Transcripted prose recall recordings were analysed quantitatively through an idea unit measure and qualitatively through meaning-based expressions. Findings: The foreign language expert groups outperformed the non-linguistic experts in both quantitative and qualitative measures. Additionally, compared to foreign language teachers, interpreters indicated a better recall of time expressions and topic sentences, as well as of complicated emotional and causal expressions. The explanation for these findings could indicate expertise-dependent tendencies: possibly a continuous practising of careful listening and the demand for a quick comprehension of the source text under the extreme time pressure of interpreters’ work leads to better results in prose recall. However, the findings can only be generalized to a limited extent because the prose passage used contained only one or two expressions of each type studied in the qualitative analysis. Originality: The study differs from previous studies in that the memory of interpreters, and especially of consecutive interpreters, was studied for the first time with a prose recall measure. Significance: The prose recall test revealed that the abilities of careful listening and effective comprehension of coherence and causality seem to play a significant role in explaining memory functions of simultaneous and consecutive interpreters compared to those of foreign language teachers and non-linguistic experts.

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Interpreters – experts in careful listening and efficient encoding? Findings of a prose recall test

Hiltunen

Vik

2016

International Journal of Bilingualism

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“…Although the 'sociological turn' has been used prominently as a label by several authors over the past two decades (among others Bachleitner and Wolf 2004;Merkle 2008;Angelelli 2012;Jiang et al 2014), the autonomy of this type of research has also been relativized, confirming as such a more or less direct connection with the cultural turn that preceded it. 1 "The sociological approach fol-1.…”

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Where translation studies and the social meet

Doorslaer

McMartin

2022

TRIS

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This article outlines some main developments that have led to the recent emergence of research on the ‘sociology of translation.’ Such research adopts approaches from the broader social sciences, particularly sociology, but is also directly related to the so-called ‘cultural turn’ within translation studies. The scope of translation research has subsequently expanded to include cultural and power-related issues, creating common ground with the social sciences both in terms of how translation is conceptualized and the methods used to study it. Translation has come to be understood as a socially situated relation with difference, just as translation practitioners and researchers have been understood as complex, situated agents acting within and across the social spheres that condition cross-cultural, multilingual exchange. This orientation opens the way for new discoveries at the intersection of translation studies and the social sciences – work Translation in Society seeks to advance.

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Agnieszka M. Will,Verbale Indirektheiten beim Diskursdolmetschen am Beispiel des Sprachenpaars Polnisch-Deutsch (Verbal indirectness in dialogue interpreting using the example of the Polish-German language pair)

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2016

The Translator

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The sociological turn in the interpreter’s role

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Interpreters – experts in careful listening and efficient encoding? Findings of a prose recall test

Interpreters – experts in careful listening and efficient encoding? Findings of a prose recall test

Where translation studies and the social meet

Agnieszka M. Will,Verbale Indirektheiten beim Diskursdolmetschen am Beispiel des Sprachenpaars Polnisch-Deutsch (Verbal indirectness in dialogue interpreting using the example of the Polish-German language pair)

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