This paper investigates the way intonation can contribute to the organisation of source texts (ST) and target texts (TT) in simultaneous interpreting (SI). The research method and results offer a broader perspective on the use of intonation in SI, a parameter often viewed in the literature as anomalous and genre-specific. The empirical analysis focuses on the structural organisation of ST and TT into phonological paragraphs, a process which is achieved, in part, through intonational choices both of the speakers and of the interpreters. A corpus-based study of fifteen ST and the corresponding TT produced in the European Parliament and European Commission was conducted using an acoustic methodology with discoursal support. The results indicate that both speakers and interpreters comply with the intonational pattern described in the literature, i.e. high pitch at initial paragraph boundaries and low pitch at final boundaries. These findings should be relevant for future research on intonation in the field of interpreting, intonation being a factor that seems to affect both the interpreter’s perception of the ST and, ultimately, the listeners’ reception of the TT.
2024. Hedges in interpreted and non-interpreted English: A cross-modal, corpus-based study. Interpreting and Society 4:1 ► pp. 44 ff.
Gao, Fei
2023. Getting the message in ‘Sound’ across at conference interpreting: a case study on rendering prosodic emphasis. Perspectives 31:6 ► pp. 1033 ff.
Hirvonen, Maija & Mari Wiklund
2021. From image to text to speech: the effects of speech prosody on information sequencing in audio description. Text & Talk 41:3 ► pp. 309 ff.
Abdel Latif, Muhammad M. M.
2018. Towards a typology of pedagogy-oriented translation and interpreting research. The Interpreter and Translator Trainer 12:3 ► pp. 322 ff.
Abdel Latif, Muhammad M. M.
2020. Translation/Interpreting Product Research. In Translator and Interpreter Education Research [New Frontiers in Translation Studies, ], ► pp. 111 ff.
2016. Cross-Modal In¡uences in Sound and Speech. In Auditory Cognition and Human Performance, ► pp. 202 ff.
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