Simultaneous interpretation : a cognitive-pragmatic analysis / Robin Setton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Setton, Robin.

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 28.

Benjamins translation library, 0929-7316 ; v. 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pragmatics.

Translating and interpreting--Psychological aspects.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Simultaneous interpretation is among the most complex of human cognitive/linguistic activities. This study, which will interest practitioners and trainers as well as linguists, draws more on linguistics-based theories of cognition in communication (cognitive semantics and pragmatics) than on the traditional information-processing approaches of cognitive psychology, and shows SI to be a valuable source of data on language and cognition.Starting from semantic representations of input and output in samples of professional SI from Chinese and German into English, the analysis explains the classic phenomena - anticipation, restoration of the implicit-explicit balance, and communicative re-packaging ('re-ostension') of the discourse - in terms of an intermediate cognitive model in working memory, allowing a more unitary view of resource management in the SI task. Relevance-theoretic analysis of the input discourse reveals rich pragmatic information guiding the construction of the appropriate contexts and the speaker's underlying intentionalities. The course of meaning assembly is reconstructed in annotated synchronised transcripts.

Contents:

SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION A COGNITIVE-PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Abbreviations and Symbols

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

1 Simultaneous conference interpretation

2 The cognitive-pragmatic approach

3 The theoretical framework

3.1 Relevance theory

3.2 Cognitive semantics

3.3 Mental models

3.4 Speech-act theory

4 The phenomenology of discourse

5 Outline and scope of the study

Chapter 2. SI Research

1 Historical background

2 Temporal and surface variables

2.1 Measuring synchronicity

2.2 Ear-voice span (EVS) or 'lag'

2.3 Segmentation and processing units

2.4 Speech rates

2.5 Error analysis

3 A computational linguistics approach

4 Information-processing models of SI

5 The Effort Model: a processing capacity account

6 The Interpretive Theory of translation (IT) (théoriedu sens)

7 SI in Allgemeine Translationstheorie (ATT) ('General Translation Theory')

8 SI research: evaluation and prospects

8.1 Methodology in SI research

8.2 Outstanding issues and controversies

8.2.1 Intermediate representation

8.2.2 SI skills and strategies

8.2.3 Language-specific factors

9 Old and new concepts in T &amp

I research

Chapter 3. An Outline Model for SI

1 Introduction

2 Sources for the model

3 Basic assumptions about cognitive function

3.1 The representational hypothesis

3.2 The Modularity Hypothesis (MH)

4 Inputs to discourse comprehension

4.1 Audiovisual input

4.2. Speech processing in psycholinguistics

4.3 Word recognition

4.4 The (multilingual) lexicon

5 Assembly: syntax, lexicon and context

6 The mental model

7 Contextualisation for SI

8 The language of representation

9 The Executive

10 Speech production in SI.

11 Processing capacity and coordination

Chapter 4. Research Issues, Corpus, and Methodology

1 Research issues

2 The corpus

2.1 German-English: Würzburg'

2.2 Chinese-English: 'Taipei'

2.3 Supplementary Chinese-English corpus

2.4 Comparison of SI corpora

2.5 Equipment, recording, timing and transcription

2.6 Segmentation of the transcripts for analysis

2.7 Linguistic descriptions

2.8 English gloss

3 Methodology

Chapter 5. Structures and Strategies

1 Introduction to the corpus analysis

2 SL-TL asymmetry in SI: obstacle or epiphenomenon?

3 Word order

4 Word order asymmetry and indeterminacy

4.1 German-English

4.1.1 Autonomous syntax

4.1.2 German-English SI structural patterns: summary

4.2 Chinese-English

4.2.1 Parsing Chinese

4.2.2 Left-branching structures in Chinese-English SI

4.2.3 Subjects

4.2.4 Asymmetries and moot constituency in Chinese-English SI: Summary

4.3 Left-branching Noun Phrases

5 SL-TL compatible structures: paraphrase and re-ordering

6 Simplification of semantic structure

7 Marked subordinate and non-declarative structures

8 Discussion

Chapter 6. The Pragmatics of Interpretation

1 Contexts

2 'Frame' effects

3 Situation and scripts

4 Inference

5 Inferred referential features

5.1 Boundedness and set-membership

5.2 Anaphora and deixis

5.3 Tense, Aspect and realis/irrealis

6 SI strategies or natural inference products?

6.1 Anticipation

6.1.1 Anticipation from a propositional attitude

6.1.2 Anticipation from pragmatic principles

6.1.3 Long-range deductive anticipation

7 Contextual sources: summary

8 The discourse model: entities, properties and relations (epr)

9 Secondary pragmatic processing and communicative intent

10 Processing instructions and procedural encoding.

10.1 Uses and distribution of modals and connectives: contrastive differences

10.2 German-English

10.3 Chinese-English

11 A vocabulary of representation (and presentation)

12 Microanalysis

Chapter 7. Judgment, Compensation and Coordination

2 Judgment

3 Late elements and afterthoughts

4 Compensation

5 Pragmatic fidelity

6 Coordination and attention in SI

6.1 Hesitancy and delivery patterns

7 Executive and secondary pragmatic processing

7.1 Cognitive management and difficulty in SI

8 Failure in SI

8.1 Problems in primary assembly

9 Processing breakdown and compound errors

9.1 Failure in SI from recited written text

9.2 Pragmatic failure

9.3 Causes of failure in SI

10 Summary

Chapter 8. Summary and Conclusions

Appendices

Appendix A Parsing theory

Appendix B Sample of conference discourse unsuited to analysis

Appendix W1 'Würzburg' SI in a live conference situation: input and interpreter WL (analytic transcript)

Appendix W2 'Würzburg' SI in a live conference situation: input and interpreter WL (synchronised transcript)

Appendix W3 'Würzburg' SI in mock session: input and interpreters WA and WB (analytic transcript)

Appendix W4 'Würzburg' Interpreters' versions transcribed as fluent text

Appendix T1 'Taipei' Chinese source discourse

Appendix T2-A Taipei: Romanised transcript with gloss and analysis, interpreters TA, TB

Appendix T2-B Taipei Segments 11-28: Input with gloss, interpreters TA, TB

Appendix T3 Taipei: Recited discourse (S29-39) and interpreters TA, TB (synchronised transcript)

Notes to Chapters

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 SI Research

Chapter 3 An Outline Model for SI

Chapter 4 Research Issues, Corpus and Methodology

Chapter 5 Strategies and Structures

Chapter 6 The Pragmatics of Interpretation.

Chapter 7 Judgment, Compensation and Coordination

Chapter 8 Summary and Conclusions

Glossary

References

Name index

Subject index

The series Benjamins Translation Library.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-04709-8

9786613047090

90-272-8547-0

9789027285478

OCLC:

709596547