ERASLAN, Şeyda Dokuz Eylul University - Department of Translation and Interpretation, Turkey

SURVEYING THE CONSECUTIVE INTERPRETER’S ROLE

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Expectations on the interpreter constitute a crucial contextual and situational factor that needs to be taken into account in studies on interpreting. This paper attempts to report the results of a survey on user expectations in interpreting as part of the author’s PhD dissertation on consecutive interpreting. It is also a revised version of the paper presented at Cetra (Eraslan 2008). Although the author’s PhD thesis includes triangulation of data obtained from various sources, this paper will focus on expectations on the interpreter from the point of view of conference participants. The aim of the study is to highlight these issues and contextualize the interpreter and consecutive conference interpreting within the broader socio-cultural context of Turkey. Through the analysis of data taking into account information on the broader (socio-cultural context, institutional context, thematic setting, participants) and the more immediate contextual levels (actual interpreting contexts), it is aimed to find out whether and how the interpreter’s role differs from the way it is defined by different parties involved in the interaction.

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consecutive interpreting , interpreter’s role , expectations , context

Iu Journal Of Translation Studies

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