Inference and anticipation in simultaneous interpreting : a probability-prediction model / Ghelly V. Chernov ; edited with a critical foreword by Robin Setton and Adelina Hild.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chernov, G. V.

Contributor:

Setton, Robin.

Hild, Adelina.

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 57.

Benjamins translation library. EST subseries.

Benjamins translation library, 0929-7316 ; v. 57. EST subseries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Simultaneous interpreting.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Until now, Ghelly Chernov's work on the theory of simultaneous interpretation (SI) was mostly accessible only to a Russian-speaking readership. Finally, Chernov's major work, originally published in Russia in 1987 under the title Основы Синхронного Перевода (Introduction to Simultaneous Interpretation) and widely considered a classic in interpretation theory, is now available in English as well. Adopting a psycholinguistic approach to professional SI, Chernov defines it as a task performed in a single pass concurrently with the source language speech, under extreme perception and production conditions in which only a limited amount of information can be processed at any given time. Being both a researcher and a practitioner, Chernov drew from a rich interpreting corpus to create the first comprehensive model of simultaneous interpretation. His model draws on semantics, pragmatics, Russian Activity Theory and the SI communicative situation to formulate the principles of objective and subjective redundancy and identify probability prediction as the enabling mechanism of SI. Edited with notes and a critical foreword by two active SI researchers, Robin Setton and Adelina Hild, this book will be useful to practicing interpreters in providing a theoretical basis for appreciating the syntactic and other devices that can be used by both students and experienced interpreters in fine-tuning their performance in the booth.

Contents:

Inference and Anticipation in Simultaneous Interpreting

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Editors' critical foreword

The probability prediction model and Chernov's contribution to interpreting studies: A critical evaluation

The theoretical framework: Eclecticism and interdisciplinarity

Methodology

Convergences with other models

Conclusion

Editing policy

Editors' acknowledgements

Notes

References

Foreword

Abbreviations and symbols

1. The psycholinguistic approach to SI research

1. SI and the linguistic theory of translation

2. The methodological basis of a psycholinguistic approach to SI

Research assumptions on SI processes

3. The object of SI psycholinguistic research

2. Speed, memory and simultaneity

4. Simultaneity in SI

5. Time constraints

6. Externally controlled pace of activity

7. Recited texts vs. improvised discourse

3. The semantic and pragmatic structure of discourse

8. Word meaning

9. Polysemy and synonymy in discourse

10. Componential analysis of meaning

11. Semantic agreement: A combinatory law of discourse

12. Semantic redundancy in discourse

13. Semantic redundancy in discourse: An example

4. Semantic structure and objective semantic redundancy

14. The concept of sense

15. Theme of communication, object of an utterance, and foregrounding

16. The semantic structure of discourse and its basic components

17. Semantic structure as the object and product of SI

5. Communicative context and subjective redundancy

18. Implicit sense and inference

19. Linguistic inference

20. Cognitive inference

21. Situational inference

22. Pragmatic inference

23. The communicative situation of simultaneous interpretation

23.1. Sources of cognitive inference

23.2. Sources of situational inference.

23.3. Sources of pragmatic inference

23.4. Factor F (`Forum') as a variable

24. Discourse equivalent9

25. Interdependence of situation and semantic structure in inferencing

26. Situational factors in comprehension: An illustration

6. A probability anticipation model for SI

27. The principle of anticipatory reflection of reality

28. Message development probability anticipation

29. Multilevel redundancy and probability anticipation

30. Cumulative dynamic analysis (CDA) and the range of probability anticipation

31. Towards the internal programme for the TL utterance

7. Theme and compression

32. The thematic (referential) component of discourse in SI

33. Redundancy in Spanish public speaking

34. Types of speech compression in SI

8. Rheme and information density

35. Perception by information density peaks

36. Loss of information due to a missed rheme

37. Strong rheme, weak rheme, chain of referents

38. The dominant evaluative rheme in a political discourse

39. Rendering the evaluative component in SI

9. Syntax and communicative word order

40. The internal programme for the TL utterance: Whole or broken?

41. Word order and communicative syntax

42. Syntactic complexity, logical sequence and working memory

43. Short and extended predicates

10. SI and Anokhin's theory of activity

44. SI as a functional system

45. Probability anticipation as a multilevel mechanism

46. Self-monitoring or feedback

47. The efficiency of the SI communicative act and the SI invariant

11. Anticipation and SI

12. Conclusion

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Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Appendix B.

Note

Appendix C

Name index

Subject index

The series Benjamins Translation Library.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160110

9781282160118

1282160117

9789027294982

9027294984