Michaela Albl‐mikasa
Biographic Data
| ID | 4157462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michaela Albl‐mikasa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michaela |
| FAMILY NAME | Albl‐mikasa |
| SIGNATURE | MIKASA M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0933-574X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
English as a lingua franca in interpreting and translation: A survey of practitioners
Over the last few decades, the English language has become prevalent throughout the world in the domains of international diplomacy, business, research, and technology and is becoming increasingly important in many other areas. Much research into the use of English as a lingua franca has focused on its role in fostering communication across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Recently, however, concerns have been raised about the additional cogni…
Relevance of ELF speakers’ source speeches: Interpreters’ interventions
In their capacity as language experts, interpreters are sometimes expected to deliver target texts that are better than their underlying source text, especially when the latter was produced by a speaker in a language that is not their L1. The spread of global English has given rise to ever more occasions when interpreters encounter non-L1 speakers of English as a lingua franca (ELF). The question as to whether or not interpreters try to optimise …
ELF Density: Extending English as a Lingua Franca Research to Monological ELF Texts and Speeches
The focus to date on interactive encounters has resulted in there being little research into monological texts and speeches produced in English as a lingua franca (ELF) contexts. They are, however, the very substance of what interpreters and translators increasingly deal with today. The quality of these language professionals’ performance depends to a large extent on the input they receive. From a translation and interpreting studies (TIS) perspe…
Interpreting accuracy revisited: A refined approach to interpreting performance analysis
Interpreting accuracy is one of the most commonly used indicators of cognitive demands in experimental interpreting studies. One possibility to assess interpreting performance is to analyse interpreting accuracy based on meaning units. The methodological approaches used thus far, however, have some drawbacks: (a) they are limited to an assessment of sense consistency with no indication of the logical cohesion of the rendition, (b) they do not tak…
Note-taking
The concepts of notation as language and micropropositional note-taking are reflected in the literature on training. Making decisions on what to note down may be only intermittently a conscious process, with one’s self-organizing system potentially finding variable and changing ways to reduce the cognitive load under particular circumstances. One emerging and under-researched issue concerns training for non-conference settings in skills such as “…
The imaginary invalid. Conference interpreters and E nglish as a lingua franca
The critical attitude of conference interpreters towards E nglish as a L ingua F ranca ( ELF ) has so far been downplayed by ELF researchers. This paper aims at detailing the experience of professional conference interpreters in interpreter‐mediated ELF communication and argues that ELF research has a stake in looking into their complaints because this may produce a better understanding of a number of aspects of mediated and unmediated ELF commun…
(Non-)Sense in note-taking for consecutive interpreting
The paper applies cognitive theories of text and language processing, and in particular relevance theory, to the analysis of notes in consecutive interpreting. In contrast to the pre-cognitive view, in which note-taking is seen mainly as a memory-supporting technique , the process of note-taking is described as the reception and production of a notation text . Adding the relevance-theoretical constructs of explicature and implicature to the gener…
(Non-)Sense in note-taking for consecutive interpreting
The paper applies cognitive theories of text and language processing, and in particular relevance theory, to the analysis of notes in consecutive interpreting. In contrast to the pre-cognitive view, in which note-taking is seen mainly as a memory-supporting technique , the process of note-taking is described as the reception and production of a notation text . Adding the relevance-theoretical constructs of explicature and implicature to the gener…
The imaginary invalid. Conference interpreters and E nglish as a lingua franca
The critical attitude of conference interpreters towards E nglish as a L ingua F ranca ( ELF ) has so far been downplayed by ELF researchers. This paper aims at detailing the experience of professional conference interpreters in interpreter‐mediated ELF communication and argues that ELF research has a stake in looking into their complaints because this may produce a better understanding of a number of aspects of mediated and unmediated ELF commun…
(Non-)Sense in note-taking for consecutive interpreting
The paper applies cognitive theories of text and language processing, and in particular relevance theory, to the analysis of notes in consecutive interpreting. In contrast to the pre-cognitive view, in which note-taking is seen mainly as a memory-supporting technique , the process of note-taking is described as the reception and production of a notation text . Adding the relevance-theoretical constructs of explicature and implicature to the gener…
The imaginary invalid. Conference interpreters and E nglish as a lingua franca
The critical attitude of conference interpreters towards E nglish as a L ingua F ranca ( ELF ) has so far been downplayed by ELF researchers. This paper aims at detailing the experience of professional conference interpreters in interpreter‐mediated ELF communication and argues that ELF research has a stake in looking into their complaints because this may produce a better understanding of a number of aspects of mediated and unmediated ELF commun…
Note-taking
The concepts of notation as language and micropropositional note-taking are reflected in the literature on training. Making decisions on what to note down may be only intermittently a conscious process, with one’s self-organizing system potentially finding variable and changing ways to reduce the cognitive load under particular circumstances. One emerging and under-researched issue concerns training for non-conference settings in skills such as “…
Interpreting accuracy revisited: A refined approach to interpreting performance analysis
Interpreting accuracy is one of the most commonly used indicators of cognitive demands in experimental interpreting studies. One possibility to assess interpreting performance is to analyse interpreting accuracy based on meaning units. The methodological approaches used thus far, however, have some drawbacks: (a) they are limited to an assessment of sense consistency with no indication of the logical cohesion of the rendition, (b) they do not tak…
ELF Density: Extending English as a Lingua Franca Research to Monological ELF Texts and Speeches
The focus to date on interactive encounters has resulted in there being little research into monological texts and speeches produced in English as a lingua franca (ELF) contexts. They are, however, the very substance of what interpreters and translators increasingly deal with today. The quality of these language professionals’ performance depends to a large extent on the input they receive. From a translation and interpreting studies (TIS) perspe…
English as a lingua franca in interpreting and translation: A survey of practitioners
Over the last few decades, the English language has become prevalent throughout the world in the domains of international diplomacy, business, research, and technology and is becoming increasingly important in many other areas. Much research into the use of English as a lingua franca has focused on its role in fostering communication across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Recently, however, concerns have been raised about the additional cogni…
Relevance of ELF speakers’ source speeches: Interpreters’ interventions
In their capacity as language experts, interpreters are sometimes expected to deliver target texts that are better than their underlying source text, especially when the latter was produced by a speaker in a language that is not their L1. The spread of global English has given rise to ever more occasions when interpreters encounter non-L1 speakers of English as a lingua franca (ELF). The question as to whether or not interpreters try to optimise …
Computer Science (7 works) · Interpreter (6 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · English as a lingua franca (3 works) · Lingua franca (3 works) · Cognition (2 works)