Description
This collection introduces an innovative micro-analytical approach to interaction management in remote interpreting, offering new insights into our understanding of the conversational dynamics of remote dialogue interpreting.
The book calls attention to the need for greater reflection on the impact of the increased use of remote interpreting via telephone and video link, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, on the already complex interactional dynamics of communication in dialogue interpreting settings. Featuring perspectives from both established and emerging scholars, the volume explores both the signals and mechanisms of interaction management and the effects of context in such settings. Chapters draw on empirical studies based on experimental and authentic data from video recordings and eye-tracking data to examine the impact on smoothness and synchronization of the interaction in remote interpreting, in light of the absence of multimodal resources such as gaze and gesture. In collecting this research in a single volume, the book paves the way for further research on the changing relationships between interaction management, technology, and multimodality in dialogue interpreting contexts in today’s increasingly technology-mediated world.
This volume will be of interest to students and scholars in interpreting studies, language and communication, and pragmatics.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: About the need for micro-analytical investigations in remote dialogue interpreting
Esther de Boe, Jelena Vranjes and Heidi Salaets
Chapter 2: Synchronization of interaction in healthcare interpreting by video link and telephone
Esther de Boe
Chapter 3: Resolving comprehension problems in a telephone-interpreted screening interview
Simo K. Määttä and Mari Wiklund
Chapter 4: Ensuring understanding in video remote-interpreted doctor–patient communication
Franz Pöchhacker and Martina Klammer
Chapter 5: Interpreters’ repair initiators in video-mediated environments
Jessica Pedersen Belisle Hansen
Chapter 6: Where to look? On the role of eye gaze in regulating turn-taking in video remote interpreting
Jelena Vranjes
Chapter 7: Consecutive interpreting and embodied sequences: Showing evidence at a distance in a video-mediated courtroom setting
Christian Licoppe
Chapter 8: Face-work in video remote interpreting: A multimodal micro-analytical analysis
Dries Cavents and July De Wilde
