Voice, Power, and Turn-Taking in Multilingual, Consecutively Interpreted Courtroom Proceedings with Video Links

Cognitive behavior during consecutive interpreting: Describing the notetaking process

“…A final section is dedicated to turn boundaries, which allows notetaking behavior to be triangulated with turn management and communication strategies. This area of research has been explored extensively in the literature to date (e.g., Roy, 1996;Wadensjö, 1999;Licoppe et al, 2018), yet the cognitive dimension of turn-taking requires further inquiry. This broader view of notetaking recognizes the situated nature of interpreting and allows questions of embodied, extended, and distributed cognition to be brought to bear on dialogue interpreting.…”

Recruiting repair: Making sense of interpreters’ embodied actions in a video-mediated environment

“…In order to interpret, the interpreter will need to gain access to the floor every now and then. The interpreter may need to intervene into the turn space of other participants so they can interpret what has been said so far (Davitti, 2019;Hansen and Svennevig, 2021;Licoppe and Veyrier, 2020;Licoppe et al, 2018). The temporary suspension of other participants' longer turns is negotiated locally by participants in interaction and may be initiated by the interpreter through use of various resources or by the other participants producing their turns in installments (Hansen and Svennevig, 2021).…”

“…In interpreter-mediated interactions, the slight delay caused by the video-technology has also been found to challenge the 'fine-tuned moment-by-moment negotiation of turn space' (Hansen and Svennevig, 2021). Furthermore, the distribution of participants in video-mediated environments has proven to be relevant for what resources the interpreter has available for instance in the management of turn-taking (Hansen and Svennevig, 2021;Licoppe and Veyrier, 2020;Licoppe et al, 2018). As the system for turn-taking is relevant for all interaction, so too is it for the timing of embodied actions and their possibility of receiving uptake within the video-mediated environment.…”

Is there such a thing as summary interpreting? “Cross-linguistic formulation”, facilitation and mediation in French asylum proceedings

“…Building on previous studies of turn management and interpreter's agency in interpreter-and video-mediated CNDA hearings (Licoppe et al, 2018, Licoppe, 2020, this paper focuses on cases of remote interpreting, as the asylum appellant, together with the interpreter, are located in French overseas territories (here Cayenne, French Guiana) and the judiciary in the CNDA headquarters in mainland France (Vincennes, Paris region). While our findings are relevant for both remote and on-site interpreting, summary interpreting, coupled with physical distance, has an exacerbating effect on the language, cultural and power divide between the institution and its users.…”