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Discourse Analysis in Translation StudiesEdited by Jeremy Munday and Meifang Zhang
[Target 27:3] 2015
► pp. 422–439
Edited by Jeremy Munday and Meifang Zhang
[Target 27:3] 2015
► pp. 422–439
Speaker positioning in interpreter-mediated press conferences
This article investigates potential effects which (the recontextualisation of) interpreted discourse can have on the positioning of participants. The discursive event which forms the basis of the analysis are international press conferences which bring politicians and journalists together. The dominant question addressed is: (How) do interpreter-mediated encounters influence the positioning of participants and thus the construction of interactional and social roles? The article illustrates that methods of (critical) discourse analysis can be used to identify positioning strategies which are employed by participants in such triadic exchanges. The data come from press conferences which involve English, German, and French as source and target languages.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Discourse analysis and interviews
- 3.Corpus and method
- 4.Interpreter-mediated press conference: Positioning the other’s social role
- 5.Interpreter-mediated press conference: Positioning the other’s interactional role
- 6.Conclusion: Scope and limitations of discourse analysis for analysing interpreter-mediated encounters
- Notes
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