Table of Contents

1 Introduction

1.1 The relevance of text linguistics to research on simultaneous interpreting

1.2 Scope and purpose of the study

1.3 Research material and methods

1.3.1 The speakers and the interpreters

1.3.2 Transcription

1.3.3 Research method

1.3.4 Units of analysis

2.1 Interpretation studies in the West

2.2 The "Paris school"

2.3 Deverbalisation or not?

2.3.1 Semantic structure and metalanguage

2.3.2 Testing "deverbalisation"

2.3.3 The "sentence" as research unit

2.4 The simultaneity of simultaneous interpreting

2.5 An early Swedish study on simultaneous interpreting: Vamling

2.5.1 Coherence

2.5.2 Resegmentation

2.5.3 Other findings

3.1 Standards of textuality

3.2 Cohesion

3.2.1 Substitution and ellipsis

3.2.2 Conjunction

3.2.2.1 Junction
3.2.3 Reference

3.2.4 Lexical cohesion

3.2.5 Lexical cohesion in interpreting

3.2.6 Cohesion vs. coherence

3.2.7 The importance of text structure

3.3 Textuality and simultaneous interpreting
3.3.1 Cohesion in spoken texts

3.3.2 Intonation in interpreting

3.4 Oral and written language - Halliday’s critique
3.4.1 The oral–literate continuum in simultaneous interpreting
3.5 Impromptu speech

4.1 Intertextuality and text types
4.1.1 Text types and translation quality
4.2 Katharina Reiss' text typology

4.3 Typologies of texts in simultaneous interpreting situations

4.3.1 Kopczyn´ski (1980)

4.3.2 Niedzielski (1988)

4.4 The relevance of text typology to interpreting
4.4.1 Alexieva’s semantic model as a tool for establishing text types

4.4.2 Suggestions for a hierarchical text typology for interpreting

5.1 The Kintsch and van Dijk model for discourse processing

5.2 Text linguistic methods in translation and interpretation research

5.2.1 Description of argumentative texts (Tirkkonen-Condit)
5.2.1.1 Illocutionary and interactional structure
5.2.1.1.1 Speech acts and illocutions
5.2.1.2 Problem-solution analysis

5.2.1.3 Macrostructure analysis

5.2.1.4 Textual analysis of an interpreted event: a dialogic approach

5.2.2 Inadequacy in translation (Vehmas-Lehto)

5.2.3 Shifts in cohesive elements in simultaneous interpretation (Shlesinger)

5.2.4 Component processes in simultaneous interpreting (Dillinger)

5.3 Applications of the Kintch and van Dijk model in simultaneous interpreting research
5.3.1 Mackintosh (1985)

5.3.2 Lambert (1988)

6.1.1 The application of the Kintsch & van Dijk model in our study

6.1.2 The interpreter as editor

6.1.2.1 "Proof-reading"

6.1.2.2 Explicitation

6.1.2.3 Cohesion

6.1.2.4 Other textual considerations: "Interpreter's edition"

7.1 Chernov’s "probability prediction mechanism"
7.1.1 Redundancy

7.1.2 Distribution of redundancy in texts

7.1.3 Probability prediction model

7.2 Cognitive problems: an example

7.3 Alexieva’s model

7.3.1 Pronunciation errors

8.1 Interpreting strategies: "Translatorese"

8.2 Two interpreter types

9.1 The relevance of the models

9.2 Text typology for interpreting

9.3 References, understanding and production strategies in the interpretation of specialist discourse

9.3.1 Lexical problems

9.3.2 Interpretation strategies
 

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