Getting the message in ‘Sound’ across at conference interpreting
A case study on rendering prosodic emphasis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12184169 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fei Gao (0000-0001-9964-2457, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1033-1048 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-29 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0907-676X • E-ISSN: 1747-6623 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0907676x.2022.2117636 |
| OpenAlex | W4297988788 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 45 |
The ‘sound’ of language is the main spoken manifestation of meaning-making for interpreting; however, as a universal phenomenon in different kinds of interpreting practice, it is still understudied. This study investigates TT renditions for ST prosodic emphasis with the paralinguistic and verbal data taken from a conference setting. The investigation is aided by the importation of the model of Effort Code and acoustic measurements (pitch range, intensity, and duration) from phonology and phonetics. Results show that (1) the ST prosodic emphasis ‘gets across’ to a noticeable degree through two types of TT renditions: ST-TT ‘prosodic-correspondence’ (9.85%) and TT ‘verbal-compensation’ as verbal means to render the ST prosodic emphasis (34.09%), (2) the higher levels of source speech pitch range, intensity, and duration, the higher likelihood of interpreters’ implementing ‘verbal-compensation’, and (3) interpreters implement ‘verbal-compensation’ through additional intensifying words or explicitation for the ST prosodic emphasis. The results suggest that interpreters can use verbal means to render ST prosody rather than to try to ‘sound’ like the speaker. Moreover, this study imports useful tools from phonology and phonetics, serving as a methodological inventory for the multimodal research avenue in translation and interpreting studies
Acoustics · Duration (music · Emphasis (telecommunications · Interpreter · Linguistics · Paralanguage · Phonetics · Phonology · Prosody · Rendering (computer graphics · Sound change · Speech recognition · Computer Science · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices · Artificial Intelligence
Translation
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Multimodality
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Evaluation in Translation
The Phonology of Tone and Intonation
Simultaneous Interpretation
Intonation and grammar in British English
Experimental and theoretical advances in prosody
An Introduction to Functional Grammar
Multimodal processing in simultaneous interpreting with text
From text to ensemble
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Simultaneous Interpretation
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Prosodic phenomena in simultaneous interpreting
The impact of simultaneous-interpreting prosody on comprehension
Interpreters' Perception of Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Factors Affecting Quality
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Emphasis and tonal implementation in Standard Chinese
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On the reliability of overall intensity and spectral emphasis as acoustic correlates of focal accents in Swedish
Corpus-based Interpreting Studies as an Offshoot of Corpus-based Translation Studies
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Embodied participation
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |