A partir de un corpus de guías de viaje sobre España en inglés y sus traducciones/adaptaciones al... more A partir de un corpus de guías de viaje sobre España en inglés y sus traducciones/adaptaciones al italiano y al español, investigamos a nivel cualitativo algunos aspectos de la representación que brindan del destino turístico. Desde la perspectiva del Análisis Crítico del Género (Bhatia, 2004; 2012; 2015), reflexionamos sobre la relación entre patrones culturales, discurso sobre la lengua y uso de la lengua. En los casos analizados ponemos de manifiesto cómo, aunque en diferentes grados, las construcciones discursivas sobre España traen consigo concepciones previas y estereotipadas de lo hispánico y algunas elecciones léxicas exotizantes (los préstamos connotativos no integrados) en las versiones en italiano y en inglés a menudo no hacen sino reforzar una imagen conservadora y domesticada del destino turístico. Palabras clave: discurso del turismo; guías de viaje; imagen de España; préstamos connotativos, traducción
This article is an ex-post translator's note on the translation into Spanish of Gabriele Pepe's c... more This article is an ex-post translator's note on the translation into Spanish of Gabriele Pepe's carte spagnole. Pepe was a captain from Molise (southern Italy) who fought in the Spanish Peninsular War from the Napoleonic side and left three diaries and a number of letters dealing with this experience. The texts, published for the first time in 2009 in bilingual edition, have an enormous documentary value for the historiography of Peninsular War, since they provide the point of view of an eyewitness who was able to report and interpret facts with remarkable critical acumen. This paper discusses translation macro-strategies regarding variation according to the Skopostheorie (Reiss, Vermeer, 1991; Vermeer 1989; Nord, 1991, 1997), which is considered both in terms of its linguistic-textual manifestations (historical, regional, register and idiolectal variation), but also with a view to the extra-linguistic factors that conditioned the translation assignment, in order to motivate why the translator opted for actualization and standardization.
This article provides a qualitative overview of the challenges posed by language (im)politeness i... more This article provides a qualitative overview of the challenges posed by language (im)politeness in a dialogue interpreting class. The examples are extracted from a corpus of dialogue interpreting simulations in the Italian-Spanish language pair where Spanish is the foreign language for most of the students. Interpreting involves carrying out several mental activities simultaneously in a situation of communicative urgency. As a result, professionals will have to learn to allocate the mental effort where it is most needed. On the basis of the data, I will try to exemplify how, due to either an imbalance in the distribution of cognitive resources, or mental fatigue, or inadequate translation decisions, or poor language mastery, inexperienced subjects tend to concentrate on the propositional content of utterances while neglecting the sociopragmatics of the interaction. In particular, as regards linguistic (im)politeness, incorrect use of the pronouns of address or the omission of mitiga...
EN This article is an ex-post translator’s note on the translation into Spanish of Gabriele Pepe’... more EN This article is an ex-post translator’s note on the translation into Spanish of Gabriele Pepe’s carte spagnole. Pepe was a captain from Molise (southern Italy) who fought in the Spanish Peninsular War from the Napoleonic side and left three diaries and a number of letters dealing with this experience. The texts, published for the first time in 2009 in bilingual edition, have an enormous documentary value for the historiography of Peninsular War, since they provide the point of view of an eyewitness who was able to report and interpret facts with remarkable critical acumen. This paper discusses translation macro-strategies regarding variation according to the Skopostheorie (Reiss, Vermeer, 1991; Vermeer 1989; Nord, 1991, 1997), which is considered both in terms of its linguistic-textual manifestations (historical, regional, register and idiolectal variation), but also with a view to the extra-linguistic factors that conditioned the translation assignment, in order to motivate why ...
– This article provides a qualitative overview of the challenges posed by language (im)politeness... more – This article provides a qualitative overview of the challenges posed by language (im)politeness in a dialogue interpreting class. The examples are extracted from a corpus of dialogue interpreting simulations in the Italian-Spanish language pair where Spanish is the foreign language for most of the students. Interpreting involves carrying out several mental activities simultaneously in a situation of communicative urgency. As a result, professionals will have to learn to allocate the mental effort where it is most needed. On the basis of the data, I will try to exemplify how, due to either an imbalance in the distribution of cognitive resources, or mental fatigue, or inadequate translation decisions, or poor language mastery, inexperienced subjects tend to concentrate on the propositional content of utterances while neglecting the sociopragmatics of the interaction. In particular, as regards linguistic (im)politeness, incorrect use of the pronouns of address or the omission of miti...
Resumen En el presente trabajo analizamos las dos versiones en espanol de la obra teatral The Sav... more Resumen En el presente trabajo analizamos las dos versiones en espanol de la obra teatral The Savior (Morton, 1992), la mas antigua a cargo del propio dramaturgo en colaboracion con el teatro hondureno La Fragua ( Romero de las Americas , inedita) y la mas reciente a cargo de I. C. Flores Hernandez y del grupo del Teatro Universitario de la Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla ( Romero, el Salvador , inedita). La obra, ambientada en El Salvador a finales de los setenta, trata de la figura, de la obra y del asesinato de monsenor Oscar Arnulfo Romero. A la luz de las problematicas teoricas puestas de manifiesto por la Escuela de la Manipulacion y del concepto de reescritura (Lefevere, 1982; 1992), intentaremos mostrar como los dos productos textuales (la version hondurena, relativamente mas target-oriented y la poblana, mas source-oriented ) estan moldeados conforme los vinculos extratextuales y genericos de fondo que marcaron las circunstancias concretas de su elaboracion, atend...
The situation of contact between English and Spanish in the United States bears some resemblance ... more The situation of contact between English and Spanish in the United States bears some resemblance with that of Gibraltar. Significant similarities can be identified both at a sociolinguistic and linguistic as well as discursive level, despite the apparent profound demographic, political, social and cultural differences between the two Spanish-speaking communities. Based on a corpus of compositions written by Gibraltarian adolescents, I analyze a number of structural and discursive features that differentiate Gibraltarian Spanish or Yanito from Andalusian Spanish and that, conversely, are well-documented in the speech of US Spanish transitional bilinguals.
The article examines some examples extracted from the two English translations of the Chicano nov... more The article examines some examples extracted from the two English translations of the Chicano novel Caras viejas y vino nuevo (1975), by Alejandro Morales. The analysis focuses on the strategies used to render pretérito imperfecto narrativo, which is one of the most conspicuous features of Morales's style. The solutions adopted in the two translations are discussed taking into account the different socio-historical contexts in which they were produced and drawing on the theoretical construct of translation as rewriting . While the earlier translation of Caras tends to simplify Morales's experimentalism in many respects, the later one, possibly as a result of an improved understanding and acceptance of the novel, as well as stronger translating skills on the part of the translator, is more respectful of Morales' twisted style and tries to reproduce it in English, including the aspect nuances provided by pretérito imperfecto narrativo in the source text.
L'interpretazione di trattativa non sembra prestarsi a possibilità di formazione a distanza, ... more L'interpretazione di trattativa non sembra prestarsi a possibilità di formazione a distanza, vista la natura essenzialmente comunicativa, orale e in presenza dell'evento. Tuttavia, nella nostra esperienza come formatrici in un corso universitario triennale per traduttori e interpreti, abbiamo constatato l'utilità di impartire una parte delle unità didattiche in tale modalità, allo scopo di migliorare le abilità oratorie, la capacità di documentazione, la competenza interculturale e le microabilità interpretative dei discenti i quali diventano soggetti valutatori delle prestazioni proprie e altrui. Parole chiave: interpretazione di trattativa, formazione a distanza, competenza interpretativa, valutazione, autovalutazione, qualità
This study is part of a project investigating user-perceived quality of consecutive interpreting ... more This study is part of a project investigating user-perceived quality of consecutive interpreting assignments carried out as part of an on-the-job training scheme offered 1. This paper has been jointly developed by the two authors. However, the first four sections were written by Elena Errico, and Mara Morelli did the others. 2. This article is the English version of “La palabra a los oyentes: Los comentarios del público en un cuestionario sobre la percepción de la calidad de la interpretación consecutiva de estudiantes en prácticas” by Elena Errico & Mara Morelli. It was not published on the print version of MonTI for reasons of space. The online version of MonTI does not suffer from these limitations, and this is our way of promoting plurilingualism. primera DOI: 10.6035/MonTI.2015.ne2.11 2 Elena Errico & Mara Morelli MonTI Special Issue 2Trans (2015). ISSN 1889-4178 to our students. From a theoretical-methodological point of view we have adopted the ethnographic perspective (Angel...
Riassunto. La qualità in interpretazione, tema ampiamente dibattuto e studiato, è determinata dal... more Riassunto. La qualità in interpretazione, tema ampiamente dibattuto e studiato, è determinata dall'intreccio di molti fattori non facilmente identificabili. In questo contributo la analizziamo alla luce del ruolo che svolge l'interprete nelle comunicazioni mediate, sottolineando come i vincoli che pongono le modalità interpretative, i diversi ruoli effettivamente svolti dal professionista (rendendosi più o meno visibile, anche nel corso dello svolgimento di uno stesso incarico) e le aspettative generate intorno a questo attore, richiedano l'adozione di una prospettiva flessibile nell'identificazione di parametri di valutazione e un adeguamento dei codici deontologici che tengano conto dell'eterogeneità delle situazioni comunicative e del carattere dinamico del costrutto della qualità. Parole chiave: interpretazione; qualità; modalità di interpretazione; ruolo dell'interprete; deontologia. Palabras clave: interpretación; calidad; modalidades de interpretación; papel del intérprete; deontología. [en] Some Remarks on Quality in Interpreting, Interpreting Modes and the Interpreter's Role Abstract. Quality in interpreting is a hotly debated issue whose complexity is determined by a mix of factors. In this article I analyze it in the light of the role played by interpreters, stressing how the constraints imposed by the different interpreting modes, the different roles actually played by professionals (who become more or less visible, even within the same assignment) and the expectations they generate require the adoption of a flexible perspective when it comes to identifying and assessing quality criteria and drafting professional codes that are open enough to adjust to diverse communicative settings and to the dynamic character of quality.
Este artículo reflexiona sobre la vitalidad del español científico-académico, que está en retroce... more Este artículo reflexiona sobre la vitalidad del español científico-académico, que está en retroceso debido, entre otras razones, al prestigio creciente del que disfrutan las publicaciones en inglés. Esta asimetría plantea una situación de desventaja potencial para los estudiosos hispanos y en general socializados en culturas no angloparlantes que, para ver reconocido su trabajo, tienen que realizar el esfuerzo adicional de escribir en una lengua extranjera y aun así corren el riesgo de ver rechazados sus trabajos por razones distintas a la calidad de su investigación. Un paliativo a esta desigualdad podría ser una mayor tolerancia por parte de los agentes intermediarios en el proceso de publicación a las incorrecciones o patrones retórico-discursivos en los textos procedentes de culturas con escritura diferentes a la anglosajona. Otra vía podría ser impulsar las publicaciones de acceso abierto, que permiten librar la estricta selección de los índices bibliométricos, muy sesgada hacia las publicaciones en inglés. P : español científico-académico; inglés científico-académico; retórica intercultural; monolingüismo en la ciencia; política lingüística académica AAAAAAAA This article analyzes the vitality of Spanish as a means of scientific-academic communication, which is currently losing ground due to the increasing prestige of publishing in English. As a result, Spanish-speaking and in general non-Anglophone scholars are potentially placed at a disadvantage, since in order to have their research published, they are required to make the extra effort of publishing in a foreign language; hence, they face the risk of failure for reasons other than the quality of their research. A solution to this inequality might be an increased tolerance of publishing brokers towards either language errors in texts and/or argumentative-rhetorical patterns belonging to non-Anglophone writing cultures. Another alternative could be furthering open access journals, which allow bypassing the strict selection of bibliometric indexes, which is overly biased in favor of publications written in English.
This article provides a qualitative overview of the challenges posed by language (im)politeness i... more This article provides a qualitative overview of the challenges posed by language (im)politeness in a dialogue interpreting class. The examples are extracted from a corpus of dialogue interpreting simulations in the Italian-Spanish language pair where Spanish is the foreign language for most of the students. Interpreting involves carrying out several mental activities simultaneously in a situation of communicative urgency. As a result, professionals will have to learn to allocate the mental effort where it is most needed. On the basis of the data, I will try to exemplify how, due to either an imbalance in the distribution of cognitive resources, or mental fatigue, or inadequate translation decisions, or poor language mastery, inexperienced subjects tend to concentrate on the propositional content of utterances while neglecting the sociopragmatics of the interaction. In particular, as regards linguistic (im)politeness, incorrect use of the pronouns of address or the omission of mitigation sometimes produce potentially impolite renditions or, conversely, deliberately impolite source utterances are rendered as polite, censoring the original speaker's intention. Therefore, in some cases, while the interpreted utterances are semantically equivalent to their respective original utterances, they are socio-pragmatically inequivalent. In other cases, they are both semantically and pragmatically inaccurate. 1. Introduzione Il contributo presenta alcune riflessioni sulle difficoltà poste dalla traduzione della (s)cortesia linguistica nell'interpretazione dialogica. Gli esempi commentati sono tratti da un corpus di simulazioni di situazioni comunicative mediate da interpreti in formazione, 1 registrate in aula e analizzate da una prospettiva che si colloca all'interfaccia tra Interpreting 1 Il corpus è costituito in totale da circa 15 ore di parlato, che ho registrato in aula con il consenso degli studenti nel corso delle mie lezioni presso le Università di Genova, Sassari e Modena.
En el presente trabajo analizamos las dos versiones en español de la obra teatral The Savior (Mor... more En el presente trabajo analizamos las dos versiones en español de la obra teatral The Savior (Morton, 1992), la más antigua a cargo del propio dramaturgo en colaboración con el teatro hondureño La Fragua (Romero de las Américas, 2010) y la más reciente a cargo de I. C. Flores Hernández y del grupo del Teatro Universitario de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Romero, el Salvador, inédita). La obra, ambientada en El Salvador a finales de los setenta, trata de la figura, de la obra y del asesinato de monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero. A la luz de las problemáticas teóricas puestas de manifiesto por la Escuela de la Manipulación y del concepto de reescritura (Lefevere, 1982; 1992), intentaremos mostrar cómo los dos productos textuales (la versión hondureña, relativamente más target-oriented y la poblana, más source-oriented) están moldeados conforme los vínculos extratextuales y genéricos de fondo que marcaron las circunstancias concretas de su elaboración, atendiendo también a su función primordial, la interpretación en las tablas.
Rivista Italiana di Tecnica della Traduzione, 2018
The article examines some examples extracted from the two English translations of the Chicano nov... more The article examines some examples extracted from the two English translations of the Chicano novel Caras viejas y vino nuevo (1975), by Alejandro Morales. The analysis focuses on the strategies used to render pretérito imperfecto narrativo, which is one of the most conspicuous features of Morales's style. The solutions adopted in the two translations are discussed taking into account the different socio-historical contexts in which they were produced and drawing on the theoretical construct of translation as rewriting (Lefevere, 1992). While the earlier translation of Caras tends to simplify Morales's experimentalism in many respects, the later one, possibly as a result of an improved understanding and acceptance of the novel, as well as stronger translating skills on the part of the translator, is more respectful of Morales' twisted style and tries to reproduce it in English, including the aspect nuances provided by pretérito imperfecto narrativo in the source text. Keywords Alejandro Morales, Francisco Lomelí, Caras viejas y vino nuevo, Chicano literature, pretérito imperfecto narrativo.
The situation of contact between English and Spanish in the United States bears some resemblance ... more The situation of contact between English and Spanish in the United States bears some resemblance with that of Gibraltar. Significant similarities can be identified both at a sociolinguistic and linguistic as well as discursive level, despite the apparent profound demographic, political, social and cultural differences between the two Spanish-speaking communities. Based on a corpus of compositions written by Gibraltarian adolescents, I analyze a number of structural and discursive features that differentiate Gibraltarian Spanish or Yanito from Andalusian Spanish and that, conversely, are well-documented in the speech of US Spanish transitional bilinguals.
Il tema della qualità è uno fra i più dibattuti e fecondi nel campo degli Interpreting Studies. I... more Il tema della qualità è uno fra i più dibattuti e fecondi nel campo degli Interpreting Studies. Il volume si propone di fornire una panoramica aggiornata dello stato dell'arte e delle principali tendenze legate a questo filone di ricerca e di riflettere su continuità e divergenze relative alle diverse modalità e tecniche interpretative in un’ottica integrata di ricerca, pratica professionale e didattica, esplorando le sfide che pone la loro evoluzione. Approfondisce inoltre questioni fondamentali nella valutazione della qualità in interpretazione, come chi valuta che cosa, in quali contesti e situazioni comunicative e condivide riflessioni sulle prospettive metodologiche applicate alla ricerca in questo campo. L'appendice offre infine strumenti e materiali per replicare e ampliare progetti di ricerca ed elaborare materiali didattici.
A partir de un corpus de guías de viaje sobre España en inglés y sus traducciones/adaptaciones al... more A partir de un corpus de guías de viaje sobre España en inglés y sus traducciones/adaptaciones al italiano y al español, investigamos a nivel cualitativo algunos aspectos de la representación que brindan del destino turístico. Desde la perspectiva del Análisis Crítico del Género (Bhatia, 2004; 2012; 2015), reflexionamos sobre la relación entre patrones culturales, discurso sobre la lengua y uso de la lengua. En los casos analizados ponemos de manifiesto cómo, aunque en diferentes grados, las construcciones discursivas sobre España traen consigo concepciones previas y estereotipadas de lo hispánico y algunas elecciones léxicas exotizantes (los préstamos connotativos no integrados) en las versiones en italiano y en inglés a menudo no hacen sino reforzar una imagen conservadora y domesticada del destino turístico. Palabras clave: discurso del turismo; guías de viaje; imagen de España; préstamos connotativos, traducción
This article is an ex-post translator's note on the translation into Spanish of Gabriele Pepe's c... more This article is an ex-post translator's note on the translation into Spanish of Gabriele Pepe's carte spagnole. Pepe was a captain from Molise (southern Italy) who fought in the Spanish Peninsular War from the Napoleonic side and left three diaries and a number of letters dealing with this experience. The texts, published for the first time in 2009 in bilingual edition, have an enormous documentary value for the historiography of Peninsular War, since they provide the point of view of an eyewitness who was able to report and interpret facts with remarkable critical acumen. This paper discusses translation macro-strategies regarding variation according to the Skopostheorie (Reiss, Vermeer, 1991; Vermeer 1989; Nord, 1991, 1997), which is considered both in terms of its linguistic-textual manifestations (historical, regional, register and idiolectal variation), but also with a view to the extra-linguistic factors that conditioned the translation assignment, in order to motivate why the translator opted for actualization and standardization.
This article provides a qualitative overview of the challenges posed by language (im)politeness i... more This article provides a qualitative overview of the challenges posed by language (im)politeness in a dialogue interpreting class. The examples are extracted from a corpus of dialogue interpreting simulations in the Italian-Spanish language pair where Spanish is the foreign language for most of the students. Interpreting involves carrying out several mental activities simultaneously in a situation of communicative urgency. As a result, professionals will have to learn to allocate the mental effort where it is most needed. On the basis of the data, I will try to exemplify how, due to either an imbalance in the distribution of cognitive resources, or mental fatigue, or inadequate translation decisions, or poor language mastery, inexperienced subjects tend to concentrate on the propositional content of utterances while neglecting the sociopragmatics of the interaction. In particular, as regards linguistic (im)politeness, incorrect use of the pronouns of address or the omission of mitiga...
EN This article is an ex-post translator’s note on the translation into Spanish of Gabriele Pepe’... more EN This article is an ex-post translator’s note on the translation into Spanish of Gabriele Pepe’s carte spagnole. Pepe was a captain from Molise (southern Italy) who fought in the Spanish Peninsular War from the Napoleonic side and left three diaries and a number of letters dealing with this experience. The texts, published for the first time in 2009 in bilingual edition, have an enormous documentary value for the historiography of Peninsular War, since they provide the point of view of an eyewitness who was able to report and interpret facts with remarkable critical acumen. This paper discusses translation macro-strategies regarding variation according to the Skopostheorie (Reiss, Vermeer, 1991; Vermeer 1989; Nord, 1991, 1997), which is considered both in terms of its linguistic-textual manifestations (historical, regional, register and idiolectal variation), but also with a view to the extra-linguistic factors that conditioned the translation assignment, in order to motivate why ...
– This article provides a qualitative overview of the challenges posed by language (im)politeness... more – This article provides a qualitative overview of the challenges posed by language (im)politeness in a dialogue interpreting class. The examples are extracted from a corpus of dialogue interpreting simulations in the Italian-Spanish language pair where Spanish is the foreign language for most of the students. Interpreting involves carrying out several mental activities simultaneously in a situation of communicative urgency. As a result, professionals will have to learn to allocate the mental effort where it is most needed. On the basis of the data, I will try to exemplify how, due to either an imbalance in the distribution of cognitive resources, or mental fatigue, or inadequate translation decisions, or poor language mastery, inexperienced subjects tend to concentrate on the propositional content of utterances while neglecting the sociopragmatics of the interaction. In particular, as regards linguistic (im)politeness, incorrect use of the pronouns of address or the omission of miti...
Resumen En el presente trabajo analizamos las dos versiones en espanol de la obra teatral The Sav... more Resumen En el presente trabajo analizamos las dos versiones en espanol de la obra teatral The Savior (Morton, 1992), la mas antigua a cargo del propio dramaturgo en colaboracion con el teatro hondureno La Fragua ( Romero de las Americas , inedita) y la mas reciente a cargo de I. C. Flores Hernandez y del grupo del Teatro Universitario de la Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla ( Romero, el Salvador , inedita). La obra, ambientada en El Salvador a finales de los setenta, trata de la figura, de la obra y del asesinato de monsenor Oscar Arnulfo Romero. A la luz de las problematicas teoricas puestas de manifiesto por la Escuela de la Manipulacion y del concepto de reescritura (Lefevere, 1982; 1992), intentaremos mostrar como los dos productos textuales (la version hondurena, relativamente mas target-oriented y la poblana, mas source-oriented ) estan moldeados conforme los vinculos extratextuales y genericos de fondo que marcaron las circunstancias concretas de su elaboracion, atend...
The situation of contact between English and Spanish in the United States bears some resemblance ... more The situation of contact between English and Spanish in the United States bears some resemblance with that of Gibraltar. Significant similarities can be identified both at a sociolinguistic and linguistic as well as discursive level, despite the apparent profound demographic, political, social and cultural differences between the two Spanish-speaking communities. Based on a corpus of compositions written by Gibraltarian adolescents, I analyze a number of structural and discursive features that differentiate Gibraltarian Spanish or Yanito from Andalusian Spanish and that, conversely, are well-documented in the speech of US Spanish transitional bilinguals.
The article examines some examples extracted from the two English translations of the Chicano nov... more The article examines some examples extracted from the two English translations of the Chicano novel Caras viejas y vino nuevo (1975), by Alejandro Morales. The analysis focuses on the strategies used to render pretérito imperfecto narrativo, which is one of the most conspicuous features of Morales's style. The solutions adopted in the two translations are discussed taking into account the different socio-historical contexts in which they were produced and drawing on the theoretical construct of translation as rewriting . While the earlier translation of Caras tends to simplify Morales's experimentalism in many respects, the later one, possibly as a result of an improved understanding and acceptance of the novel, as well as stronger translating skills on the part of the translator, is more respectful of Morales' twisted style and tries to reproduce it in English, including the aspect nuances provided by pretérito imperfecto narrativo in the source text.
L'interpretazione di trattativa non sembra prestarsi a possibilità di formazione a distanza, ... more L'interpretazione di trattativa non sembra prestarsi a possibilità di formazione a distanza, vista la natura essenzialmente comunicativa, orale e in presenza dell'evento. Tuttavia, nella nostra esperienza come formatrici in un corso universitario triennale per traduttori e interpreti, abbiamo constatato l'utilità di impartire una parte delle unità didattiche in tale modalità, allo scopo di migliorare le abilità oratorie, la capacità di documentazione, la competenza interculturale e le microabilità interpretative dei discenti i quali diventano soggetti valutatori delle prestazioni proprie e altrui. Parole chiave: interpretazione di trattativa, formazione a distanza, competenza interpretativa, valutazione, autovalutazione, qualità
This study is part of a project investigating user-perceived quality of consecutive interpreting ... more This study is part of a project investigating user-perceived quality of consecutive interpreting assignments carried out as part of an on-the-job training scheme offered 1. This paper has been jointly developed by the two authors. However, the first four sections were written by Elena Errico, and Mara Morelli did the others. 2. This article is the English version of “La palabra a los oyentes: Los comentarios del público en un cuestionario sobre la percepción de la calidad de la interpretación consecutiva de estudiantes en prácticas” by Elena Errico & Mara Morelli. It was not published on the print version of MonTI for reasons of space. The online version of MonTI does not suffer from these limitations, and this is our way of promoting plurilingualism. primera DOI: 10.6035/MonTI.2015.ne2.11 2 Elena Errico & Mara Morelli MonTI Special Issue 2Trans (2015). ISSN 1889-4178 to our students. From a theoretical-methodological point of view we have adopted the ethnographic perspective (Angel...
Riassunto. La qualità in interpretazione, tema ampiamente dibattuto e studiato, è determinata dal... more Riassunto. La qualità in interpretazione, tema ampiamente dibattuto e studiato, è determinata dall'intreccio di molti fattori non facilmente identificabili. In questo contributo la analizziamo alla luce del ruolo che svolge l'interprete nelle comunicazioni mediate, sottolineando come i vincoli che pongono le modalità interpretative, i diversi ruoli effettivamente svolti dal professionista (rendendosi più o meno visibile, anche nel corso dello svolgimento di uno stesso incarico) e le aspettative generate intorno a questo attore, richiedano l'adozione di una prospettiva flessibile nell'identificazione di parametri di valutazione e un adeguamento dei codici deontologici che tengano conto dell'eterogeneità delle situazioni comunicative e del carattere dinamico del costrutto della qualità. Parole chiave: interpretazione; qualità; modalità di interpretazione; ruolo dell'interprete; deontologia. Palabras clave: interpretación; calidad; modalidades de interpretación; papel del intérprete; deontología. [en] Some Remarks on Quality in Interpreting, Interpreting Modes and the Interpreter's Role Abstract. Quality in interpreting is a hotly debated issue whose complexity is determined by a mix of factors. In this article I analyze it in the light of the role played by interpreters, stressing how the constraints imposed by the different interpreting modes, the different roles actually played by professionals (who become more or less visible, even within the same assignment) and the expectations they generate require the adoption of a flexible perspective when it comes to identifying and assessing quality criteria and drafting professional codes that are open enough to adjust to diverse communicative settings and to the dynamic character of quality.
Este artículo reflexiona sobre la vitalidad del español científico-académico, que está en retroce... more Este artículo reflexiona sobre la vitalidad del español científico-académico, que está en retroceso debido, entre otras razones, al prestigio creciente del que disfrutan las publicaciones en inglés. Esta asimetría plantea una situación de desventaja potencial para los estudiosos hispanos y en general socializados en culturas no angloparlantes que, para ver reconocido su trabajo, tienen que realizar el esfuerzo adicional de escribir en una lengua extranjera y aun así corren el riesgo de ver rechazados sus trabajos por razones distintas a la calidad de su investigación. Un paliativo a esta desigualdad podría ser una mayor tolerancia por parte de los agentes intermediarios en el proceso de publicación a las incorrecciones o patrones retórico-discursivos en los textos procedentes de culturas con escritura diferentes a la anglosajona. Otra vía podría ser impulsar las publicaciones de acceso abierto, que permiten librar la estricta selección de los índices bibliométricos, muy sesgada hacia las publicaciones en inglés. P : español científico-académico; inglés científico-académico; retórica intercultural; monolingüismo en la ciencia; política lingüística académica AAAAAAAA This article analyzes the vitality of Spanish as a means of scientific-academic communication, which is currently losing ground due to the increasing prestige of publishing in English. As a result, Spanish-speaking and in general non-Anglophone scholars are potentially placed at a disadvantage, since in order to have their research published, they are required to make the extra effort of publishing in a foreign language; hence, they face the risk of failure for reasons other than the quality of their research. A solution to this inequality might be an increased tolerance of publishing brokers towards either language errors in texts and/or argumentative-rhetorical patterns belonging to non-Anglophone writing cultures. Another alternative could be furthering open access journals, which allow bypassing the strict selection of bibliometric indexes, which is overly biased in favor of publications written in English.
This article provides a qualitative overview of the challenges posed by language (im)politeness i... more This article provides a qualitative overview of the challenges posed by language (im)politeness in a dialogue interpreting class. The examples are extracted from a corpus of dialogue interpreting simulations in the Italian-Spanish language pair where Spanish is the foreign language for most of the students. Interpreting involves carrying out several mental activities simultaneously in a situation of communicative urgency. As a result, professionals will have to learn to allocate the mental effort where it is most needed. On the basis of the data, I will try to exemplify how, due to either an imbalance in the distribution of cognitive resources, or mental fatigue, or inadequate translation decisions, or poor language mastery, inexperienced subjects tend to concentrate on the propositional content of utterances while neglecting the sociopragmatics of the interaction. In particular, as regards linguistic (im)politeness, incorrect use of the pronouns of address or the omission of mitigation sometimes produce potentially impolite renditions or, conversely, deliberately impolite source utterances are rendered as polite, censoring the original speaker's intention. Therefore, in some cases, while the interpreted utterances are semantically equivalent to their respective original utterances, they are socio-pragmatically inequivalent. In other cases, they are both semantically and pragmatically inaccurate. 1. Introduzione Il contributo presenta alcune riflessioni sulle difficoltà poste dalla traduzione della (s)cortesia linguistica nell'interpretazione dialogica. Gli esempi commentati sono tratti da un corpus di simulazioni di situazioni comunicative mediate da interpreti in formazione, 1 registrate in aula e analizzate da una prospettiva che si colloca all'interfaccia tra Interpreting 1 Il corpus è costituito in totale da circa 15 ore di parlato, che ho registrato in aula con il consenso degli studenti nel corso delle mie lezioni presso le Università di Genova, Sassari e Modena.
En el presente trabajo analizamos las dos versiones en español de la obra teatral The Savior (Mor... more En el presente trabajo analizamos las dos versiones en español de la obra teatral The Savior (Morton, 1992), la más antigua a cargo del propio dramaturgo en colaboración con el teatro hondureño La Fragua (Romero de las Américas, 2010) y la más reciente a cargo de I. C. Flores Hernández y del grupo del Teatro Universitario de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Romero, el Salvador, inédita). La obra, ambientada en El Salvador a finales de los setenta, trata de la figura, de la obra y del asesinato de monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero. A la luz de las problemáticas teóricas puestas de manifiesto por la Escuela de la Manipulación y del concepto de reescritura (Lefevere, 1982; 1992), intentaremos mostrar cómo los dos productos textuales (la versión hondureña, relativamente más target-oriented y la poblana, más source-oriented) están moldeados conforme los vínculos extratextuales y genéricos de fondo que marcaron las circunstancias concretas de su elaboración, atendiendo también a su función primordial, la interpretación en las tablas.
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The article examines some examples extracted from the two English translations of the Chicano nov... more The article examines some examples extracted from the two English translations of the Chicano novel Caras viejas y vino nuevo (1975), by Alejandro Morales. The analysis focuses on the strategies used to render pretérito imperfecto narrativo, which is one of the most conspicuous features of Morales's style. The solutions adopted in the two translations are discussed taking into account the different socio-historical contexts in which they were produced and drawing on the theoretical construct of translation as rewriting (Lefevere, 1992). While the earlier translation of Caras tends to simplify Morales's experimentalism in many respects, the later one, possibly as a result of an improved understanding and acceptance of the novel, as well as stronger translating skills on the part of the translator, is more respectful of Morales' twisted style and tries to reproduce it in English, including the aspect nuances provided by pretérito imperfecto narrativo in the source text. Keywords Alejandro Morales, Francisco Lomelí, Caras viejas y vino nuevo, Chicano literature, pretérito imperfecto narrativo.
The situation of contact between English and Spanish in the United States bears some resemblance ... more The situation of contact between English and Spanish in the United States bears some resemblance with that of Gibraltar. Significant similarities can be identified both at a sociolinguistic and linguistic as well as discursive level, despite the apparent profound demographic, political, social and cultural differences between the two Spanish-speaking communities. Based on a corpus of compositions written by Gibraltarian adolescents, I analyze a number of structural and discursive features that differentiate Gibraltarian Spanish or Yanito from Andalusian Spanish and that, conversely, are well-documented in the speech of US Spanish transitional bilinguals.
Il tema della qualità è uno fra i più dibattuti e fecondi nel campo degli Interpreting Studies. I... more Il tema della qualità è uno fra i più dibattuti e fecondi nel campo degli Interpreting Studies. Il volume si propone di fornire una panoramica aggiornata dello stato dell'arte e delle principali tendenze legate a questo filone di ricerca e di riflettere su continuità e divergenze relative alle diverse modalità e tecniche interpretative in un’ottica integrata di ricerca, pratica professionale e didattica, esplorando le sfide che pone la loro evoluzione. Approfondisce inoltre questioni fondamentali nella valutazione della qualità in interpretazione, come chi valuta che cosa, in quali contesti e situazioni comunicative e condivide riflessioni sulle prospettive metodologiche applicate alla ricerca in questo campo. L'appendice offre infine strumenti e materiali per replicare e ampliare progetti di ricerca ed elaborare materiali didattici.
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La obra, ambientada en El Salvador a finales de los setenta, trata de la figura, de la obra y del asesinato de monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero. A la luz de las problemáticas teóricas puestas de manifiesto por la Escuela de la Manipulación y del concepto de reescritura (Lefevere, 1982; 1992), intentaremos mostrar cómo los dos productos textuales (la versión hondureña, relativamente más target-oriented y la poblana, más source-oriented) están moldeados conforme los vínculos extratextuales y genéricos de fondo que marcaron las circunstancias concretas de su elaboración, atendiendo también a su función primordial, la interpretación en las tablas.
La obra, ambientada en El Salvador a finales de los setenta, trata de la figura, de la obra y del asesinato de monseñor Óscar Arnulfo Romero. A la luz de las problemáticas teóricas puestas de manifiesto por la Escuela de la Manipulación y del concepto de reescritura (Lefevere, 1982; 1992), intentaremos mostrar cómo los dos productos textuales (la versión hondureña, relativamente más target-oriented y la poblana, más source-oriented) están moldeados conforme los vínculos extratextuales y genéricos de fondo que marcaron las circunstancias concretas de su elaboración, atendiendo también a su función primordial, la interpretación en las tablas.