Simultaneous Interpretation

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A cognitive-pragmatic analysis

Robin Setton(Author)

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Published on 15. May 1999

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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 & 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
1 Introduction
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
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