Processing possessives in simultaneous interpreting from English to Polish

Katarzyna Stachowiak-Szymczak, Bergljot Behrens
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The present paper reports on an experiment in which the use of possessives is investigated in an interpreting task from English to Polish. The English possessive determiner system is neutral with respect to the syntactic position of the antecedent possessor, while Polish distinguishes lexically between locally bound – i.e. reflexive – and non-reflexive possessive modifiers. The interpreter therefore has to ‘compute’ mentally the syntactic position of the antecedent possessor in order to make the correct choice in Polish as the target language. The study shows that this is cognitively a very demanding task in simultaneous interpreting, as many errors as well as self-corrections occur. The study furthermore shows that interpreters adapt their language to their audience, and adequate omissions, as well as correct form of the possessive occur more often when they have a group of engineers in mind than when they interpret for language specialists. We understand this to mean that the cognitive complexity of solving the cross-linguistic asymmetry in the possessive system causes more errors when the interpreter stays closer to the source text in speaking to language specialists.
英语到波兰语同声传译中所有格的处理
本文报道了一个实验,在这个实验中,研究了英语到波兰语的口译任务中所有格的使用。英语的所有格限定词系统对先行词所有人的句法位置是中立的,而波兰语在词汇上区分了局部约束的所有格修饰语,即反身性和非反身性。因此,口译员必须在心里“计算”先行词所有人的句法位置,以便在波兰语作为目标语言中做出正确的选择。研究表明,在同声传译中,这是一项非常苛刻的认知任务,因为许多错误和自我纠正都会发生。该研究进一步表明,口译员会根据听众的语言进行调整,当他们考虑到一群工程师时,比他们为语言专家翻译时,更经常出现适当的省略和正确的所有格形式。我们认为,这意味着解决所有格系统中跨语言不对称的认知复杂性会导致译员在与语言专家交谈时更接近源文本时出现更多错误。
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