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Testi e contesti dell'interpretazione di conferenza : uno studio etnografico
Get PDFLe conferenze e i convegni internazionali sono uno dei principali contesti in cui gli interpreti si trovano spesso coinvolti al fine di fornire un servizio di interpretazione simultanea, consentendo così a tutti i partecipanti di esprimersi e comprendersi reciprocamente. Per poter studiarne le caratteristiche più rilevanti, l’individuazione analitica delle dinamiche, dei “testi” e dei ruoli implicati in tale situazione comunicativa è un passo preliminare a qualsiasi ricerca osservazionale su base empirica. Sulla scia della recente “svolta sociologica” degli Studi sull’Interpretazione, grazie all’apporto di diverse discipline quali l’Etnografia della comunicazione, l’Antropologia del linguaggio, la Sociolinguistica, l’Analisi conversazionale e l’Analisi del discorso è stato possibile formulare una proposta di classificazione delle sessioni, degli eventi linguistici e dei tipi di partecipanti che concorrono alla creazione del significato dei messaggi prodotti e tradotti nell’ambito della conferenza-convegno. Una delle applicazioni concrete di tale proposta è rappresentata dal corpus elettronico DIRSI-C (Directionality in Simultaneous Interpreting Corpus), illustrato nel volume Corpora e interpretazione (Bendazzoli 2010) che integra e completa quanto discusso nel presente contributo
The ethnography of interpreter-mediated communication: Methodological challenges in fieldwork
No full textThis chapter presents the challenges (and possible solutions) experienced in fieldwork when collecting data from conference interpreting and sign language community interpreting. Despite the inherent differences between the two scenarios under consideration, the ethnographic approach raises similar questions, especially with reference to the position of the researcher and their role as observers and/or participants. In particular, the role of the practisearcher (Gile 1994) is discussed, highlighting advantages and limitations of direct involvement as evidenced in this and other studies from different disciplines. Drawing on anthropology, ethnography and sociology, the discussion highlights the moves in position from observation to participation, and from participation to observation, that can be appreciated in these disciplines and in interpreting research respectively
The Interpreters' Newsletter
Get PDFIssue 27 of The Interpreters' Newsletter, including seven papers (one in french) and an editorial by the two editors (Bendazzoli Claudio, Brambilla Emanuele). Contributors:
Bartłomiejczyk Magdalena (Addressing others through an interpreter: is the directness reduced across the pragmatic spectrum?), Mahyub Rayaa Bachir and Martin Anne (Remote Simultaneous Interpreting: perceptions, practices and developments), Ceccoli Federica and Torresi Ira (The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Italian mediation services: a focus on mediators’ perceptions in Emilia-Romagna), Spinolo Nicoletta, Olalla-soler Christian and Muñoz Martín Ricardo (Finding a way into an interpreter’s heart: methodological considerations on heart-rate variability building on an exploratory study), Darias Marrero Agustín and León Delgado Clara (Application expérimentale de techniques théâtrales en cours d’interprétation consécutive), Halley Mark and Phillips David G. (Discoursing ‘dis course: applying discourse analysis in an undergraduate signed language interpreting course), Álvarez-pérez Beneharo and Pérez-luzardo Díaz Jessica (Interpreter preparation in the interpreting classroom environment. A study on the usefulness of terminological glossaries)
Introduction
No full textIn this introduction, the two editors review previous methodological works in the field of Interpreting Studies and illustrates the rationale behind the collection of chapters in the volume. The fundamental notion of interaction is applied to the whole research process with respect to the relationship between the data and the analyst, i.e. in data collection, data analysis and beyond. A brief overview of each chapter is also provided
Veerle Duflou. Be(com)ing a conference interpreter: An ethnography of EU interpreters as a professional community. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2016. 392 pp. ISBN 978-90-272-5870-0. Reviewed by Claudio Bendazzoli (University of Turin)
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Corpus-based Interpreting Studies: Past, Present and Future Developments of a (Wired) Cottage Industry
No full textDrawing on Miriam Shlesinger's seminal paper on the creation and use of corpora in Interpreting Studies research, which she referred to as an offshoot of corpus-based translation studies (CTS) (Shlesinger 1998), and on Setton's chapter presenting an overview and prospects of Corpus-based Interpreting Studies (CIS) (Setton 2011), this chapter takes stock of nearly two decades of CIS and looks at the extent to which this offshoot has flourished in three areas of interpreting, namely research, education, and professional practice. Although considerable progress has been made in dealing with many of the challenges involved in corpus development, each area has reached a different degree of maturity with respect to CIS. Corpora are increasingly used in research, not only to look at simultaneous conference interpreting, but also to investigate other modes and settings, including consecutive interpreting and dialogue interpreting. This applies to both electronic, machine-readable corpora and more traditional datasets that are analyzed manually. On the other hand, their exploitation in interpreter education is still limited, while professional practice has yet to discover the potential of corpora. A better understanding of the reasons behind these discrepancies may be helpful to inform future directions of CIS and narrow the gap between research and (educational and professional) practice. Finally, the features of Web 2.0 are considered in order to discuss possible solutions to some of the methodological obstacles in the creation and use of interpreting corpora
Foreword
No full textThe Preface introduces the objective and plan of this volume which serves a dual purpose. On the one hand, it aims at promoting the understanding of the interpretation process and product based not on anecdotal observations or small-size case-studies, but on comparatively large datasets of professional interpretations mostly stored and queried according to standard corpus linguistics methodologies. The volume showcases descriptions of and studies on major interpreting corpora available to date: the EPIC Corpus and its off-springs EPTIC (including also translations) developed at the University of Bologna, EPICG from the University of Ghent (Belgium) and the TIC Corpus from the University of Poznán (Poland); the 2249i Corpus, the DIRSI Corpus and the IMITES Corpus, again from the University of Bologna (Italy); the CorIT Corpus from the University of Trieste (Italy); the FOOTIE Corpus created at UNINT University in Rome (Italy); the NAIST Corpus from the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (Japan) and the CEIPPC Corpus, which was built at the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (China). On the other hand, the volume is also intended as a renewed call (after Miriam Shlesinger’s first call in 1998) to the research community to further develop the field of corpus-based interpreting studies by offering scholars more corpus-based data and methodologies to compile their own corpora according to their research designs
The European Parliament Interpreting Corpus (EPIC): implementation and developments
No full textThe call for the creation of corpora in Interpreting Studies that could be queried by means of Corpus Linguistics tools was first made by Shlesinger (1998) over a decade ago. However, only recently has this need started to be met. The European Parliament Interpreting Corpus (EPIC) is one of the first machine-readable corpora to be openly accessible in the field of Interpreting Studies. It was created in 2004/2006 by the Directionality Research Group of the University of Bologna at Forlì, and consists of 9 sub-corpora in total: three sub-corpora of source language speeches (Italian, English and Spanish) and six sub-corpora of simultaneously interpreted speeches, thus comprising all possible directions and combinations of the three languages involved (Monti et al. 2005, Sandrelli et al.. 2010). At present, the corpus includes only a small part of all the recorded material, which is stored in the EPIC Multimedia Archive.
The present paper describes the steps undertaken to create the corpus and the ongoing developments to further expand it and improve its structure. Firstly, the methodology used for user-friendly data collection and transcription and for the part-of-speech (POS) tagging and lemmatisation of this open corpus will be described; then, the web-interface developed to carry out simple and advanced queries on-line will be illustrated (see http://sslmitdev-online.sslmit.unibo.it/corpora/corporaproject.php?path=E.P.I.C.). Examples of the corpus-based studies carried out so far will be provided (Russo et al 2006, Bendazzoli et al 2011) and a special emphasis will be placed on the great potential of EPIC as a pedagogical and research tool in interpreter training. Interpreting students can transcribe and analyse part of the recorded material stored in the EPIC Multimedia Archive in their graduation dissertations, thus taking advantage of a unique opportunity to reflect upon real-life professional interpreting performances and upon their own learning process. Finally, ongoing developments and future steps will be discussed: text-to-sound and source text-to-target text alignment procedures are currently being tested, so as to make EPIC a more powerful resource to be explored by the interpreting research community
References
BENDAZZOLI, C., SANDRELLI, A. AND M. RUSSO (2011) “Disfluencies in simultaneous interpreting: a corpus-based analysis”, in A. Kruger, K. Walmach and J. Munday (eds.) Corpus-based Translation Studies: Research and Applications, London /New York: Continuum, 282-306.
MONTI, C., BENDAZZOLI, C., SANDRELLI A. AND M. RUSSO (2005) “Studying Directionality in Simultaneous Interpreting through an Electronic Corpus: EPIC (European Parliament Interpreting Corpus)” paper presented at the International Symposium “Pour une traductologie proactive” organised for the 50° anniversary of META, University of Montreal, 6th-9th April 2005, (vol 50:4). Online: http://www.erudit.org/revue/meta/2005/v50/n4/019850ar.pdf
RUSSO, M., BENDAZZOLI, C. E A. SANDRELLI (2006) "Looking for Lexical Patterns in a Trilingual Corpus of Source and Interpreted Speeches: Extended Analysis of EPIC (European Parliament Interpreting Corpus)", Forum, vol. 4:1, 221-254.
SANDRELLI, A., BENDAZZOLI, C. AND M. RUSSO (2010) “European Parliament Interpreting Corpus (EPIC): Methodological issues and preliminary results on lexical patterns in SI”, International Journal of Translation 22 (1-2), 165-203.
SHLESINGER, M. (1998): “Corpus-based interpreting studies as an offshoot of corpus-based translation studies”, META, 43-4, pp. 486-493
Preface
No full textThis volume serves a dual purpose. On the one hand, it aims at promoting the understanding of the interpretation process and product based not on anecdotal observations or small-size case-studies, but on comparatively large datasets of professional interpretations mostly stored and queried according to standard corpus linguistics methodologies.On the other hand, the volume is also intended as a renewed call (after Miriam Shlesinger’s first call in 1998) to the research community to further develop the field of corpus-based interpreting studies by offering scholars more corpus-based data and methodologies to compile their own corpora according to their research designs.
This volume consists of 11 chapters. The first two are meant to provide the theoretical framework of corpus-based interpreting studies (CIS), focusing on their development and on procedural-methodological issues respectively, while the other nine chapters present the insightful results obtained by analyzing professional interpreters’ performances from this promising corpus-based perspective
Addressing Methodological Challenges in Interpreting Studies Research
No full textUsing interaction as a fundamental springboard, Addressing Challenges in Interpreting Studies Research showcases the major breakthrough in interpreting studies made by investigating community interpreting and the inherent high degree of participant interaction. We here add a ‘reflexive’ twist and espouse the notion of the analyst as not separate from the context under study. After looking at dialogue interpreters, cast away from the carpeted walls of sound-proof booths and deprived of the spotlighted lectern-podium position at high level fora, it has become clear that the interpreter’s invisibility, not to mention their neutrality, is uppermost in the minds of both users and providers in terms of expectations. Among all the participants in any ‘mediated’ communicative situation, it is the interpreter who is exceedingly visible and potentially most influential in shaping and coordinating the ongoing exchanges. We propose that a similar view be applied to researchers engaged in interpreting research, especially in empirical investigations. Different forms of ‘interaction’ between researchers and the data in their studies are inevitable. This applies to every stage of their work, ranging from all the pre-analysis activities to the analysis itself, and the post analysis stage, in which results are disseminated in the research community and, possibly, the target population. This volume will stand to benefit all those who work with researching language issues, not only because of the various approaches covered in the volume, but also because of the ways in which they are being reframed as a result of shifting contextual constraints. Table of Contents Section 1: Data collection 1. Claudio Bendazzoli, University of Torino (Italy) “The ethnography of interpreter-mediated communication: Methodological challenges in fieldwork” 2. Claudia Monacelli, UNINT University (Rome, Italy) “Methods to (contextual) madness: Data collection in highly confidential settings” 3. Marta Biagini, UNINT University (Rome, Italy) “Revisiting Ethnography for dialogue interpreting research” Section 2: Data Analysis 4. Minhua Liu, Monterey Institute of International Studies “Putting the horse before the cart – righting the experimental approach in interpreting studies” 5. Tanya Voinova & Noam Ordan, Bar-Ilan University (Israel) & Saarland University (Germany) “Narratives of community interpreters: What can we learn from using corpora-based methodology?” 6. Cynthia J. Kellett Bidoli, University of Trieste “Methodological challenges in consecutive interpreting research: corpus analysis of notes”. Section 3: Beyond data analysis 7. Sara Bani, University of Catania (Italy) "Interpreting journalism" 8. Michael Boyd, Roma Tre University (Rome, Italy) “Who/Where is Joe the plumber? Interpreting conceptual metaphor and personal pronouns in the US presidential debates" 9. Anne Martin, University of Granada (Spain) “Interpreting and ideology: Research trends and methods”
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