Multimodal processing in simultaneous interpreting with text: Interpreters focus more on the visual than the auditory modality
Authors:
- Agnieszka Chmiel,
- Przemysław Janikowski,
- Agnieszka Lijewska
Abstract
The present study focuses on (in)congruence of input between the visual and the auditory modality in simultaneous interpreting with text. We asked twenty-four professional conference interpreters to simultaneously interpret an aurally and visually presented text with controlled incongruences in three categories (numbers, names and control words), while measuring interpreting accuracy and eye movements. The results provide evidence for the dominance of the visual modality, which goes against the professional standard of following the auditory modality in the case of incongruence. Numbers enjoyed the greatest accuracy across conditions possibly due to simple cross-language semantic mappings. We found no evidence for a facilitation effect for congruent items, and identified an impeding effect of the presence of the visual text for incongruent items. These results might be interpreted either as evidence for the Colavita effect (in which visual stimuli take precedence over auditory ones) or as strategic behaviour applied by professional interpreters to avoid risk.
- Record ID
- UAM3fe22d4491744f00b5f95cb94cdf4e7b
- Author
- Journal series
- Target-International Journal of Translation Studies, ISSN 0924-1884, e-ISSN 1569-9986
- Issue year
- 2020
- Vol
- 32
- No
- 1
- Pages
- 37-58
- Publication size in sheets
- 1.05
- Keywords in English
- simultaneous interpreting, multimodal processing, multisensory processing, incongruence, visual modality
- ASJC Classification
- ; ;
- DOI
- DOI:10.1075/target.18157.chm Opening in a new tab
- URL
- https://benjamins.com/catalog/target.18157.chm Opening in a new tab
- Language
- (en) English
- Score (nominal)
- 100
- Score source
- journalList
- Score
- = 100.0, 16-02-2022, ArticleFromJournal
- Publication indicators
- = 1; : 2018 = 2.161; : 2019 (2 years) = 0.485 - 2019 (5 years) =0.886
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://researchportal.amu.edu.pl/info/article/UAM3fe22d4491744f00b5f95cb94cdf4e7b/
- URN
urn:amu-prod:UAM3fe22d4491744f00b5f95cb94cdf4e7b
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