Roy Cynthia B. Interpreting as a Discourse Process

Oxford University Press, 2000. — vii-141 pages. — ISBN: 0-19-511948-7.This book is about applying the linguistic approaches of discourse analysis to the analytical study of interpreting-about studying interpreting-as discourse, a process of conversational exchanges between two primary speakers and through an interpreter. It is also about examining how an interpreter manages the discourse process between two participants who do not speak the same language. The goals of this book are threefold: to offer a definition of interpreted events in general based on a discourse framework; to describe, analyze, and interpret the turn-taking exchanges in one interpreted event; and to discuss, from the analysis of one role performance, an interpreter’s role as it is performed in interaction with others. In exploring how one interpreter manages the flow of talk, one basic, crucial system was examined in detail: the turn exchange system. Exchanging turns is at the heart of the way people talk back-and-forth to each other. How turns operate and how people take speaking turns in ordinary conversational discourse has been studied frequently in linguistic approaches to discourse, and these findings are applied here.Prologue
Discourse
Translation and Interpretation
Turn-Taking as a Discourse Process
Analyzing Interpreted Encounters
The Meeting and the Participants
Turn Exchanges in an Interpreted
Professor-Student Conference
Role Performance in an Interpreted
Discourse Process
Epilogue