Tracks and Treks in Translation Studies: Selected papers from the EST Congress, Leuven 2010
Edited by Catherine Way, Sonia Vandepitte, Reine Meylaerts and Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk
[Benjamins Translation Library, 108] 2013. vi, 298 pp.
Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk
List of John Benjamins publications for which Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk plays a role.
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Subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies
2024 Can you amuse the audience through an interpreter? Parliamentary interpreting and humour Target 36:1, pp. 26–49 | Article
In this article, I investigate how interpreters handle humorous utterances during plenary debates of the European Parliament, focusing on the input by one Polish Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Janusz Korwin-Mikke. The source speeches (in Polish or English) are analysed bottom-up to… read more
2024 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language
Policy 10. 2014: Emotional challenges and self-care strategies Translation and Interpreting Studies: Online-First Articles | Article
Policy 10. 2014: Emotional challenges and self-care strategies Translation and Interpreting Studies: Online-First Articles | Article
We present a case study of a group of activist interpreters Ciocia Wienia, a Vienna-based informal pro-choice collective. The activists facilitate abortion travel from Poland to Austria, offer onsite support and interpret in abortion clinics. We analyze original data from a corpus of 13… read more
2024 “The heart will stop beating”: Ethical issues in activist interpreting – the case of Ciocia Wienia Interpreting: Online-First Articles | Article
This article highlights some ethical questions in activist interpreting in the context of transnational patient mobility, with a specific focus on abortion travel from Poland to Austria. It presents a case study of Ciocia Wienia, a Vienna-based activist collective which facilitates access to… read more
2024 “We have a damn duty”: What motivates volunteer interpreters to engage in activist interpreting in abortion clinics? Translation in Society 3:2, pp. 202–225 | Article
This article presents a case study of Ciocia Wienia, a collective of activists who facilitate abortion travel between Poland and Austria and provide support and interpretation in abortion clinics in Vienna. Drawing on a framework based on activist translation and motivational psychology, we… read more
2022 Interpreters’ explicitating styles: A corpus study of material from the European Parliament Interpreting 24:2, pp. 163–191 | Article
This article investigates explicitation as an indicator of individual interpreters’ style in the outputs of professional interpreters working for the European Parliament. The material used for the study is a sub-corpus of target texts by 12 interpreters extracted from a larger bi-directional… read more
2020 Parliamentary impoliteness and the interpreter’s gender Pragmatics 30:4, pp. 459–484 | Article
Impoliteness is a common phenomenon across various democratically elected parliaments. However, in multilingual legislative bodies such as the European Parliament speakers have to rely on interpreters to transfer pragmatic meaning, including face-threatening acts and impoliteness. The existing… read more
2020 How much noise can you make through an interpreter? A case study on racist discourse in the European Parliament Interpreting 22:2, pp. 238–261 | Article
The paper employs critical discourse analysis for a pragmatically-oriented exploration of several racist statements by a Polish Eurosceptic Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Janusz Korwin-Mikke. The original fragments in English or in Polish were extracted from a larger corpus containing… read more
2017 The interpreter’s visibility in the European Parliament Interpreting 19:2, pp. 159–185 | Article
This ethnographic study aims to shed light on how the services of simultaneous interpreters working during plenary sessions of the European Parliament are perceived and evaluated by the users, i.e. mainly Members of the European Parliament and other European Union officials. The corpus analysed… read more
2010 Effects of short intensive practice on interpreter trainees’ performance Why Translation Studies Matters, Gile, Daniel, Gyde Hansen and Nike K. Pokorn (eds.), pp. 183–194 | Article
The performance of ten interpreting students participating in a one-week practice programme in real conference conditions was measured using two tools established in research on interpreting: propositional accuracy scores and error analysis. These tools were applied to the students’ interpretations… read more
2007 Review of Tryuk (2006): Teoria i dydaktyka przekładu konferencyjnego Interpreting 9:2, pp. 274–278 | Review
2006 Lexical Transfer in Simultaneous Interpreting FORUM 4:2, pp. 1–23 | Article
Abstract/Résumé
Une fois expliquée la notion du transfert lexical, l’auteur décrit deux études empiriques de l’interprétation simultanée du polonais en anglais et de l’anglais en polonais. La première étude, faite sur les protocoles rétrospectives de 36 apprentis interprètes avec le polonais comme… read more
2006 Strategies of simultaneous interpreting and directionality Interpreting 8:2, pp. 149–174 | Article
This article describes an experimental study on strategies of simultaneous interpreting used by 36 advanced students working in two directions: from English (B) into Polish (A) and the reverse. The material analysed comprises retrospective remarks provided by the subjects, prompted by listening to… read more
2004 Simultaneous interpreting A-B vs. B-A from the interpreters’ standpoint Claims, Changes and Challenges in Translation Studies: Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Copenhagen 2001, Hansen, Gyde, Kirsten Malmkjær and Daniel Gile (eds.), pp. 239–249 | Article
How native-like do conference interpreters sound in L2? A phonetic analysis of retour interpretations into English in the European Parliament Translation, Cognition & Behavior: Online-First Articles | Article
We present an exploratory observational study on A-B interpreting in the European Parliament. In contrast to popular belief, it is a widespread practice for some of the newer EU languages to be interpreted into English by native speakers of the source language. The phonetic-acoustic properties… read more