16.3149, Diss: Discourse Analysis/Text/Corpus Ling: Monacelli: 'S

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Date: 30-Oct-2005
From: Claudia Monacelli < claudia.monacelli at luspio.it >
Subject: Surviving the Role: A corpus-based study of self-regulation in simultaneous interpreting as perceived through participation framework and interactional politeness 

	
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Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 11:27:37
From: Claudia Monacelli < claudia.monacelli at luspio.it >
Subject:  Surviving the Role: A corpus-based study of self-regulation in simultaneous interpreting as perceived through participation framework and interactional politeness 
 


Institution: Heriot Watt University 
Program: Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2005 

Author: Claudia Monacelli

Dissertation Title: Surviving the Role: A corpus-based study of self-regulation 
in simultaneous interpreting as perceived through
participation framework and interactional politeness 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Dissertation Director(s):
Ian Mason

Dissertation Abstract:

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of self-regulation on
the behaviour of simultaneous interpreters via a study of participation
framework and interactional politeness and to establish some explanatory
and predictive principles. Following work on self-regulation in other
fields (Bandura 1997), autopoiesis (Maturana and and Varela 1998),
sociolinguistic studies concerned with contextual matters and participation
framework (Duranti and Goodwin 1992; Goffman 1981), interactional
linguistic politeness (Brown and Levinson 1987) and interpreting studies
(Diriker 2004), this study takes as its starting point the assumption that
self-regulation is a viable construct with which to analyse simultaneous
interpreting since this working mode is inherently face-threatening.
Simultaneous interpreting is characterized by systemic and interpersonal
constraints that affect the interpreter's role, thus warranting
self-regulatory moves to ensure professional survival. We analyse
self-regulation in a corpus of authentic situated texts and identify trends
in self-regulatory behaviour across all corpus texts. Analysis is based on
a research design consisting of four parts: collection of data, briefing
with subjects, textual analysis, debriefing with subjects. We examine
personal reference, agency, modality and interactional linguistic
politeness and include both a quantitative and qualitative component. A
quantitative assessment is primarily concerned with the number of
occurrences and the nature of non-obligatory translational shifts. A
qualitative analysis consists of collecting personal data on our subjects,
analysing shifts using a contextual model designed specifically for the
purposes of this study and retrospective studies. The study concludes that
the nature of self-regulatory behaviour in the corpus is one of distancing,
de-personalisation and the mitigation of illocutionary force. This involves
subjects in a position of detachment with respect to both the source text
and their own text. A further important finding is the uniformity of this
trend, which manifests itself in all interpreted versions of corpus texts. 




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