Self-Preservation in Simultaneous Interpreting

Surviving the role
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-2428-6
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 84, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 525 g

Reihe: Benjamins Translation Library

The image of the tightrope walker illustrates the interpreter’s balancing act. Compelled to move forward at a pace set by someone else, interpreters compensate for pressures and surges that might push them into the void. The author starts from the observation that conference interpreters tend to see survival as being their primary objective. It is interpreters’ awareness of the essentially face-threatening nature of the profession that naturally induces them to seek what the author calls “dynamic equilibrium”, a constantly evolving state in which problems are resolved in the interests of maintaining the integrity of the system as a whole. By taking as a starting point the more visible interventions interpreters make (comments on speed of delivery, on exchanges between the chair and the floor), the author is able to explore the interpreter’s instinct for self-preservation in an inherently unstable environment.
This volume is an insightful and refreshing account of interpreters’ behavior from the other side of the glass-fronted booth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Monacelli, Claudia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations
List of tables
List of figures
Transcription key
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Interpreting as a system
Chapter 3. Methodology and corpus
Chapter 4. From system dynamics onward
Chapter 5. Simultaneous interpreting as communicative interaction
Chapter 6. Participation framework and interactional politeness in corpus
Chapter 7. Discussion
Chapter 8. Conclusions
Reference
Appendix: Glossary of terms
Index