Simultaneous Interpretation
A cognitive-pragmatic analysis
Simultaneous interpretation is among the most complex of human cognitive/linguistic activities. This study, which will interest practitioners and trainers as well as linguists, draws more on linguistics-based theories of cognition in communication (cognitive semantics and pragmatics) than on the traditional information-processing approaches of cognitive psychology, and shows SI to be a valuable source of data on language and cognition.
Starting from semantic representations of input and output in samples of professional SI from Chinese and German into English, the analysis explains the classic phenomena anticipation, restoration of the implicit-explicit balance, and communicative re-packaging (re-ostension) of the discourse in terms of an intermediate cognitive model in working memory, allowing a more unitary view of resource management in the SI task. Relevance-theoretic analysis of the input discourse reveals rich pragmatic information guiding the construction of the appropriate contexts and the speakers underlying intentionalities. The course of meaning assembly is reconstructed in annotated synchronised transcripts.
[Benjamins Translation Library, 28] 1999. xv, 397 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Abbreviations and symbols
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ix
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Preface and acknowledgments
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xi
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1. Introduction
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1
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2. SI Research
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25
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3. An Outline Model for SI
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63
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4. Research Issues, Corpus, and Methodology
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99
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5. Structures and Strategies
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123
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6. The Pragmatics of Interpretation
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173
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7. Judgment, Compensation and Coordination
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225
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8. Summary and Conclusions
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267
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Appendices
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285
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Notes to chapters
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343
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Glossary
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355
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References
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373
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Name index
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385
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Subject index
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388
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“[...] this book is an important interdisciplinary, theoretical contribution to IR: Setton not only tackles a topic which has been neglected so far, but also shows convincingly that pragmatics offers useful tools to take its study further.”
Daniel Gile, Paris-Lyon
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