Self-preservation in simultaneous interpreting surviving the role - Monacelli, Claudia (John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Interpreting as a system -- Methodology and corpus -- From system dynamics onward -- Simultaneous interpreting as communicative interaction -- Participation framework and interactional politeness in corpus -- Discussion -- Conclusion
The image of the tightrope walker illustrates the interpreter's balancing act. Compelled to move forward at a pace set by someone else, interpreters compensate for pressures and surges that might push them into the void. The author starts from the observation that conference interpreters tend to see survival as being their primary objective. It is interpreters' awareness of the essentially face-threatening nature of the profession that naturally induces them to seek what the author calls "dynamic equilibrium", a constantly evolving state in which problems are resolved in the interests of maint