Additions in simultaneous signed interpreting
A corpus-driven grounded study
Until now, investigations of strategies used by signed language interpreters in the simultaneous mode have been sporadic
and restricted to analyses of short transcripts. This article presents the first corpus-driven exploration of interpreter additions in news
broadcasts simultaneously interpreted into South African Sign Language. Using grounded theory, it explores the types of additions made, the
reasons for their production, and their downstream consequences. The results show that interpreters mainly add discourse markers, linguistic
extrapolations such as filling in ellipsis and obvious co-text, repetitions, contextual information, and to a lesser extent, second
translations, pragmatic markers, and new information. However, the cost is high as additions often result in concomitant omissions and
occasional incoherence. From the results, a model is extrapolated to explain additions in terms of the interpreter’s perceived roles and
status in the Deaf community.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Types of additions
- Reasons for additions
- Method
- Results
- Addition of discourse devices
- Linguistic extrapolation
- Repetitions
- Pragmatic markers
- Contextual information
- Incoherent additions
- New information
- Second translations
- Anticipations
- Downstream effects of additions
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Notes
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