Testing the Effort Models' tightrope hypothesis in simultaneous interpreting - A contribution

Authors

  • Daniel Gile

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v12i23.25553

Abstract

In a sample of 10 professionals interpreting the same source speech in the simultaneous mode, errors and omissions (e/o’s) were found to affect different source-speech seg-ments, and a large proportion among them were only made by a small proportion of the subjects. In a repeat performance, there were some new e/o’s in the second version when the same interpreters had interpreted the same segments correctly in the first version. These findings strengthen the Effort Models’ “tightrope hypothesis” that many e/o’s are due not to the intrinsic difficulty of the corresponding source-speech segments, but to the interpreters working close to processing capacity saturation, which makes them vulnerable to even small variations in the available processing capacity for each interpreting component.

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Published

1999-02-22

How to Cite

Gile, D. (1999). Testing the Effort Models’ tightrope hypothesis in simultaneous interpreting - A contribution. HERMES - Journal of Language and Communication in Business, 12(23), 153–172. https://doi.org/10.7146/hjlcb.v12i23.25553

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No. 23 (1999)

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Forum

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