Cognitive aspects of community interpreting. Toward a process model

Abstract

This article discusses cognitive aspects of professional community interpreting. We give an overview of earlier research into community interpreting, arguing that cognitive aspects have largely been neglected. We propose that in building a model of the mental processes of the community interpreter, different kinds of monitoring are a crucial and pervasive component. Monitoring contributes to and enables the double function of the interpreter: translating and managing the interaction of the interpreted encounter. We furthermore stress the importance of the notion of professional self-concept for explaining the interpreter’s decision-making and exemplify this by analyzing turn-taking in two Swedish-Spanish interpreted encounters.

Gaze and eye movement in dialogue interpreting: An eye-tracking study

“…Considering the many simultaneous tasks of dialogue interpreting, it is as demanding as simultaneous interpreting in terms of advanced bilingual language processing. Yet, unlike the case with simultaneous interpreting, dialogue interpreting has mostly been studied from interactional or sociological perspectives (Englund Dimitrova & Tiselius, 2016). Compared to simultaneous interpreting, the cognitive characteristics of dialogue interpreting are far less known.…”

“…They are often part of the immigrant population of the country in question. Many dialogue interpreters also have different levels of fluency in their two languages, something that might affect the cognitive load and interpreting process (Englund Dimitrova & Tiselius, 2016). These characteristics also make them different from a traditional directionality perspective.…”

impact of context on community interpreting research, practice & training

“…An example of this is the work by Devaux (2017), who investigates video remote interpreting in courtroom settings using Actor Network Theory. Within the social sciences, cognition in particular has recently gained much in popularity among interpreting researchers -for example, Englund Dimitrova and Tiselius (2016) and Tiselius and Albl-Mikasa (2019). Cognition has been the exclusive playground of conference interpreting researchers (e.g., Seeber, 2011) so far and is a domain yet to be fully explored in CI contexts.…”

Creencias y percepciones de los facilitadores lingüísticos entre criollo haitiano y español en Chile. Resultados de una investigación-acción

“…Desde la perspectiva del individuo, la literatura sobre la isp también ha centrado su atención en identificar las competencias y habilidades específicas que debe desarrollar una persona para ser un intérprete en estos contextos profesionales. Un componente de esta competencia que se ha abordado en la literatura de la isp es el autoconcepto o la conciencia que desarrolla un intérprete sobre sí mismo y su trabajo (Brisau et al, 1994;Englund Dimitrova y Tiselius, 2016;Hale, 2007).…”