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Publication type:	Conference paper
Type of review:	Peer review (abstract)
Title:	Basic principles of interlingual mediation : relevance in ELF contexts
Authors:	Albl-Mikasa, Michaela Ehrensberger-Dow, Maureen
et. al:	No
Conference details:	17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Winterthur (online), 27 June - 2 July 2021
Issue Date:	28-Jun-2021
Language:	English
Subject (DDC):	418.02: Translating and interpreting 420: English
Abstract:	Interpreters’ professional self-image and quality requirements have been summed up as follows: “What our listeners receive through their earphones should produce the same effect on them as the original speech does on the speaker’s audience. It should have the same cognitive content and be presented with equal clarity and precision in the same type of language if not better, given that we are professional communicators, while many speakers are not, and sometimes even have to express themselves in languages other than their own.” (Déjean Le Feal 1990: 155). The same expectations apply to professional translators. In the traditional sense, this entails constantly navigating between speaker fidelity or source text loyalty and audience design, because a good performance in terms of doing justice to the speaker or author does not necessarily imply rendering a good service to the target audience. In the increasingly common context of English used as a lingua franca (ELF), as touched upon in the above quotation, this task is further complicated by an additional dimension. When interpreters and translators deal with non-standard input from non-native speakers, they also have to balance expectations of speaker/text fidelity with speech/text optimization. This raises important questions such as the following. How do interpreters or translators do justice to the basic principles of fidelity, accuracy, and complete rendition, when propositional content and illocutionary intent are unclear? What are the implications for notions of quality in translation and interpreting (T&I), including those of faithfulness, loyalty, user expectations, accuracy, errors, and norms? How do the task requirements change when compensation, normalization, and optimization measures would be needed in the target audience’s interest (as a type of domestication), compromising the requirements of speaker fidelity or loyalty to the source text producer? What does interlingual mediation mean in this more recent context, and to what extent do intervention and agency become more necessary, acceptable and even desirable? We will present data collected as part of an ongoing mixed-method project on cognitive load (see Albl-Mikasa et al. 2020; Ehrensberger-Dow et al. 2020), in order to shed light on the practices and strategies used by language mediators in dealing with ELF input. Based on this analysis, we will discuss the implications for traditional notions and concepts in T&I as highlighted above.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/24256
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Not specified
Departement:	Applied Linguistics
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED)
Published as part of the ZHAW project:	Cognitive Load in Interpreting and Translation (CLINT)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik

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