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New perspectives and challenges for interpretation
No full textTechnological progress and globalization processes are radically changing traditional working models – including those for professional intercultural mediation. This also affects all forms of written and oral translation, e.g.for terrestrial or satellite-broadcast television programmes. This aspect ist often neglected by international and intercultural communication studies. As translation is at the same time an agent and a symptom of linguistic and cultural exchange (and change), it is important to state the social and ethical responsibility involved in its use, and the consequent need to improve our understanding of its working mechanisms.
The author is conducting a study on the modalities of oral interlingual mediation used in Italian television since the sixties. The project aims at the collection of a corpus of examples of tv-interpreting and its analysis for descriptive and didactic purposes. The theoretical background is a pragmatic approach to interpreting as a complex and ‚artificial‘ comunication phenomenon and a social phenomenon with multiple economic and sociological implications. In previous research television interpreting has often been considered simply as a variety of conference interpreting performed under severer circumstances, in spite of the profoundly different performances expected from television interpreters. The theses of the author are that: television interpreting is substantially different from interpreting in traditional conference settings (and, on the other hand, from ordinary face-to-face communication); most of the specific differences between traditional interpreting and television interpreting have not yet been sufficiently investigated; the norms of behaviour internalised by professional conference interpreters are not always adequate to television communication, and this can even lead to conflicts about the perception of interpretation quality.
The characteristics of interpreter-mediated discourse in tv are analyzed according to eight categories recognized by Hymes as variables pertaining to every form of comunication event and identified by the acronym SPEAKING (situation, participants, ends, act sequeces, key, instrumentralities, norms of interaction e genres). The main differences of television interpreting versus more traditional form of interpreting are related to the loss of interpersonal character of communication; the reproducibility of oral discourse in the age of electronic media; staging (where the selection of viewpoints and the restructuring of discourse implicitly include a pre-selection of meaning); the secondary character of orality on television, conflicting with the interpreter’s genuine fresh talk; and the loss of a clear-cut profile of the type of mediation and mediators required
Conference Interpreters on the Air
No full textA small group of simultaneous interpreters who regularly work for public as well as private Italian tv stations were interviewed in order to analyze the extent to which the picture given above matches their personal experience. The observations collected are focussed mainly on their interpreting for Oscar awards ceremonies and cannot be generalized, but the interviewees agreed that these observations well apply to the current practice of tv interpreting in Italy
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Bulletin: Number 748: The Quality of Economic Poisons Sold in New York State in 1950
No full text33 pages, 1 article*The Quality of Economic Poisons Sold in New York State in 1950* (Mack, G. L.; Buchholz, A. B.) 31 page
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