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Subject: 21.3749, Calls: Applied Ling, Pragmatics, Translation/United Kingdom

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Date: 21-Sep-2010
From: Laura Gavioli < laura.gavioli at unimore.it >
Subject: Exploring Participants' Orientation in Interpreter-mediated Interaction
 

	
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:17:27
From: Laura Gavioli [laura.gavioli at unimore.it]
Subject: Exploring Participants' Orientation in Interpreter-mediated Interaction

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Full Title: Exploring Participants' Orientation in Interpreter-mediated 
Interaction 

Date: 03-Jul-2010 - 08-Jul-2010
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Laura Gavioli
Meeting Email: laura.gavioli at unimore.it

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Pragmatics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2010 

Meeting Description:

Exploring participants' orientation in interpreter-mediated interaction

Proposing team: Laura Gavioli (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy), 
Bernd Meyer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany), Cecilia 
Wadensjö (Stockholm University, Sweden)

This panel aims to discuss the ways in which participants involved in 
interpreter-mediated, face-to-face interaction - for short: dialogue 
interpreting - orient to the sequential, situational and institutional frames 
of the ongoing encounter; how interaction is managed and organized locally 
between people speaking different languages, assisted by a third party 
speaking both. In an increasingly 'globalized' world, this type of 
communication seems potentially attractive in studies of linguistic 
pragmatics.

When monolingual speakers interact in a first language setting, it is taken 
for granted that they share knowledge of what is going on. In the case of 
foreign language interaction, it may not be clear from the outset in whose 
frame (or frames) a given encounter operates. However, if participants in 
these kinds of settings are able to interact at some level of mutual 
understanding, it must be possible to analyze how they are doing this. 

In dialogue interpreted encounters, two out of three participants as a rule 
have no or limited knowledge of another party's language and consequently 
would normally not be able to understand, without the interpreter's 
assistance, either what this party's talk is about, or how the shared event is 
locally organized. Nevertheless, at some level, they share knowledge of 
what is going on as interaction unfolds. 

As is demonstrated in numerous empirical studies, when an interpreter is 
introduced in a face-to-face communicative situation the organizational 
format of interaction becomes fundamentally different from a dyadic, one-
language situation. It has been firmly established that interpreters, 
irrespective of their educational background as interpreters (or lack thereof) 
involve in a number of activities apart from translating others' talk (e.g. 
asking for clarification, asking to stop and let the interpreter translate, 
asking to repeat, explaining, clarifying). Conversely, it can be seen that the 
communicative behaviour of all participants in an interpreted encounter has 
an impact on how it is shaped and understood.

We encourage research looking at dialogue interpreting in various settings 
(healthcare and migration institutions, courts, educational institutions, job 
and media interviews and so forth) and invite studies applying Conversation 
Analysis, Interactional Sociolinguistics, and other approaches based on the 
study of talk in and as interaction. Research should be based on naturally 
occurring, recorded and transcribed data sets. 

Call for Papers

IPRA panel: Exploring participants' orientation in interpreter-mediated 
interaction

We invite contributions focusing on research on interpreter-mediated 
interaction in various settings (e.g. healthcare and migration institutions, 
courts, educational institutions, job and media interviews) and are interested 
in studies applying Conversation Analysis, Interactional Sociolinguistics, and 
other approaches based on the study of talk in and as interaction. Research 
should be based on naturally occurring, recorded and transcribed data sets.

Some contributions have already been sent in, but we would like to invite 
one or two more.

Abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) should be sent by 15th October 2010 
as an email attachment to: 
Laura Gavioli
laura.gavioli at unimore.it

Additional information: 
Please note that: 
- if accepted, abstracts will have to be submitted via IPrA conference site 
before 29 October 2010, following the instructions available at 
http://ipra.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.CONFERENCE12&n=1403  
- submitting the abstracts in accordance with the general guidelines is the 
individual responsibility of contributor(s) 
- IPrA membership is required for the submission of abstract and for 
participation in the conference 


Laura Gavioli (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy), 
Bernd Meyer (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Germany), 
Cecilia Wadensjö (Stockholm University, Sweden)





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