Conference and simultaneous interpreting

Conference & Simultaneous Interpreting
Deevid Alexis Tapia Visosso

Presentation name goes here
 Oral Translation of Oral Discourse.
 Been in existence since early times (Ancient Egypt).
 Played important roles in history (exploration and
invasion campaigns in Central and South America).
 Interest in specialized forms of professional interpreting
is recent.
1

Presentation name goes here 2
There are many types of Interpreting:
 Business Interpreting.
 Court Interpreting.
 Community Interpreting.
 Signed Language Interpreting.

 Born during the first World War.
 International meeting were held in French.
 Some H-R American and British negotiators didn’t speak French.
 Interpreters were needed (widespread in Nuremberg and Tokyo trials).

Most conference interpreters only work with two or three languages:
 ‘A’ language(s): Native tongue(s) => Native or near-native command.
Work into as well as out of their ‘A’ languages(s).
 ‘B’ languages(s): Non-native language(s) => Sufficient command but
not at same level as an ‘A’ language. Work into as well as out of their
‘B’ languages(s).
 ‘C’ languages(s): Passive languages => Work from a ‘C’ language into
their ‘A’ or ‘B’ language, but they do not interpret into a ‘C’ language.

There are 4 periods on the history of conference interpreting:
1. Early writings (50s-60s):
Interpreters and interpreting teachers (Geneva, Brussels).
First manuals (intuitive and personal).
Practical and didactic aims (fundamental issues).
First Academic study by Eva Paneth (MA thesis, London).

Presentation name goes here
2. Experimental period (60s-70s).
 Psychologists, psycholinguists.
 Experimental studies.
 Putting to test of said manuals in previous period.
 Speed of delivery, ear voice span, noise, pauses, etc.
6

3. Practitioner’s Period (60s-70s-80s).
 More and more Interpreting teachers developed interest in interpreting
research and theory.
 First Ph.D dissertation was defended in Vienna by Ingrid Pinter (Kurz).
 West/East Germany, Switzerland, URRS, even in Japan.
 Speculative or theoretical (worked in isolation).
 Sense theory [ESIT (Ecole Supérieure d’Interprètes et de Tradecteurs;
Paris)].

4. The renewal period (80s-present).
 Sense theory was questioned by a new generation of practitioners.
 A more scientific view gave birth to an interdisciplinary approach.
 Seminar was held in the University of Trieste (Italy).
 Research is still largely done by practicing interpreters.
 Neurolinguistics; more communication; The Interpreter’s Newsletter.

Conference and simultaneous interpreting

In this document

More Related Content

What's hot

Similar to Conference and simultaneous interpreting

Recently uploaded

Conference and simultaneous interpreting