A corpus-driven analysis of uncertainty and uncertainty management in Chinese premier press conference interpreting

IF 1 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Translation and Interpreting Studies Pub Date : 2019-04-05 DOI:10.1075/TIS.00034.SHE

Mingxia Shen, Qianxi Lv, Junying Liang

引用次数: 5

Abstract

This paper examines uncertainty encountered by expert interpreters at Chinese Premier Press Conferences by marking interpreters’ five types of hesitation phenomena and analyzes uncertainty management strategies. Results show (1) self-corrections, repetitions, and reformulations occur less frequently than pauses, indicating expert interpreter’s better control of interpreting fluency; (2) speakers may impact interpreters’ hesitation with segment length positively correlated with interpreters’ pauses, self-correction, and reformulation, and speaking rate explains the variance in the occurrence of filled pauses; (3) pauses occur for retrieving lexical and morphological information, eliminating logical doubt, and explicating cultural connotation; (4) expert interpreters adopt addition and rank shift more than ellipsis, simplification, splitting, and repetition as uncertainty management strategies, showing an emphasis on adequacy, comprehensibility, and acceptability in their output.

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中国总理新闻发布会口译中的不确定性分析与不确定性管理

本文通过对口译员的五种犹豫现象的标记，考察了专家口译员在中国总理新闻发布会上遇到的不确定性，并分析了不确定性管理策略。结果表明：（1）自我纠正、重复和改写的发生频率低于停顿，表明专业口译员对口译流利性有更好的控制；（2）说话者可能影响口译员的犹豫，片段长度与口译员的停顿、自我纠正和重新表述呈正相关，而语速解释了填充停顿发生的差异；（3）停顿用于检索词汇和形态信息，消除逻辑疑问，阐释文化内涵；（4）与省略、简化、拆分和重复相比，专家口译员更多地采用加法和等级转换作为不确定性管理策略，强调其输出的充分性、可理解性和可接受性。

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Translation and Interpreting Studies Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal designed to disseminate knowledge and research relevant to all areas of language mediation. TIS seeks to address broad, common concerns among scholars working in various areas of Translation and Interpreting Studies, while encouraging sound empirical research that could serve as a bridge between academics and practitioners. The journal is also dedicated to facilitating communication among those who may be working on related subjects in other fields, from Comparative Literature to Information Science. Finally, TIS is a forum for the dissemination in English translation of relevant scholarly research originally published in languages other than English. TIS is the official journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association (ATISA).