This paper addresses the topic of quality assessment in interpreting, from a perspective that defines quality as equivalent effect of source text and target text. The experimental study described uses an innovative methodology based on comprehension testing, to evaluate the widely accepted norm that an interpretation should produce the same effect — in the sense of effect on the listener’s knowledge of a specific subject — as the original. More specifically, the study compares communicative effect between a marketing-related speech of about 15 minutes in non-native English and its simultaneous interpretation into German. The comparison is thus between two directly competing modes of communication, the use of English as a lingua franca being seen by many interpreters as a threat to their profession. Three experimental runs were completed, involving an Italian speaker comfortable with English as a medium for lecturing and a total of 139 listeners attending professionally oriented Austrian university courses. Results showed that in this setting the interpretation led to a better cognitive end-result in the audience than the original speech in non-native English.
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Abdel Latif, Muhammad M. M.
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2023. Relevance of ELF speakers’ source speeches: interpreters’ interventions. Meta: Journal des traducteurs 68:2 ► pp. 384 ff.
Albl‐Mikasa, Michaela
2014. The imaginary invalid. Conference interpreters and English as a lingua franca. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 24:3 ► pp. 293 ff.
Albl-Mikasa, Michaela, Giovanna Fontana, Laura Maria Fuchs, Lena Meret Stüdeli & Aline Zaugg
2017. Professional translations of non-native English: ‘before and after’ texts from the European Parliament’s Editing Unit. The Translator 23:4 ► pp. 371 ff.
Bowles, Hugo & Amanda C. Murphy
2020. EMI and the Internationalization of Universities: An Overview. In English-Medium Instruction and the Internationalization of Universities [International and Development Education, ], ► pp. 1 ff.
2018. Attitudes of Korean College Students and Office Workers on World Englishes and World Englishes Interpreting. The Journal of Translation Studies 19:1 ► pp. 305 ff.
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