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1. Claudia
Monacelli,
Surviving the Role: A corpus-based study of self-regulation in simultaneous interpreting as perceived through participation framework and interactional politeness
Message 1: Surviving the Role: A corpus-based study of self-regulation in simultaneous interpreting as perceived through participation framework and interactional politeness
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Date: 30-Oct-2005
From: Claudia Monacelli <claudia.monacelliluspio.it>
Subject: Surviving the Role: A corpus-based study of self-regulation in simultaneous interpreting as perceived through participation framework and interactional politeness
Institution: Heriot Watt University
Program: Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2005
Author: Claudia Monacelli
Dissertation Title: Surviving the Role: A corpus-based study of self-regulation in simultaneous interpreting as perceived through participation framework and interactional politeness
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Dissertation Director:
Ian Mason
Dissertation Abstract:
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of self-regulation on
the behaviour of simultaneous interpreters via a study of participation
framework and interactional politeness and to establish some explanatory
and predictive principles. Following work on self-regulation in other
fields (Bandura 1997), autopoiesis (Maturana and and Varela 1998),
sociolinguistic studies concerned with contextual matters and participation
framework (Duranti and Goodwin 1992; Goffman 1981), interactional
linguistic politeness (Brown and Levinson 1987) and interpreting studies
(Diriker 2004), this study takes as its starting point the assumption that
self-regulation is a viable construct with which to analyse simultaneous
interpreting since this working mode is inherently face-threatening.
Simultaneous interpreting is characterized by systemic and interpersonal
constraints that affect the interpreter's role, thus warranting
self-regulatory moves to ensure professional survival. We analyse
self-regulation in a corpus of authentic situated texts and identify trends
in self-regulatory behaviour across all corpus texts. Analysis is based on
a research design consisting of four parts: collection of data, briefing
with subjects, textual analysis, debriefing with subjects. We examine
personal reference, agency, modality and interactional linguistic
politeness and include both a quantitative and qualitative component. A
quantitative assessment is primarily concerned with the number of
occurrences and the nature of non-obligatory translational shifts. A
qualitative analysis consists of collecting personal data on our subjects,
analysing shifts using a contextual model designed specifically for the
purposes of this study and retrospective studies. The study concludes that
the nature of self-regulatory behaviour in the corpus is one of distancing,
de-personalisation and the mitigation of illocutionary force. This involves
subjects in a position of detachment with respect to both the source text
and their own text. A further important finding is the uniformity of this
trend, which manifests itself in all interpreted versions of corpus texts.
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