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Interpreters' involvement inmulti-party interactions: The nature of participation as listener and speaker

Published/Copyright: March 3, 2012
Multilingua
From the journal Volume 31 Issue 1

Abstract

This paper investigates two naturally occurring business interpreting situations where there are a number of participants. Unlike dialogue interpreting situations where there are only two primary interlocutors, the overall interaction shows more complexity in these multi-party situations. This, in turn, means that the interpreters’ functions and their level of involvement also become more multifaceted. In order to see the nature of the interpreters’ participation in the interaction, they will be analysed as a listener and speaker, drawing upon Goffman’s (1981) participation framework and Clark’s (1996) categorisation of listeners and speakers. The study shows that the interpreters not only participate in the communicative interaction in a highly complicated way, but that they are an integral part of the communicative interaction. This is particularly the case when they participate as a speaker

Keywords: interpreter; multi-party interpreting; footing; listener; speaker; role
Published Online: 2012-03-03
Published in Print: 2012-03

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https://doi.org/10.1515/mult.2012.002
Keywords for this article
interpreter; multi-party interpreting; footing; listener; speaker; role

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Article
  2. Pragmatic awareness in a second language setting: The case of L2 learners of Greek
  3. Interpreters' involvement inmulti-party interactions: The nature of participation as listener and speaker
  4. Homophobic slurs and public apologies: The discursive struggle over fag/maricón in public discourse*
  5. Tracking language attitudes in postcolonial Hong Kong: An interplay of localization, mainlandization, and internationalization
  6. Discourse markers in turn-initial positions in interruptive speech in a Malaysian radio discourse
  7. Book review
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