Receivers tend to have higher expectations for broadcast interpreting, which is a genre of interpretation that emphasizes formal completeness. Using simultaneous interpretation outputs of President Obama’s victory speech, this paper examines how fidelity and performance in broadcast interpreting affect evaluation by receivers. The speech was simultaneously interpreted from English to Korean and Japanese, and these different renderings were used in the analysis. Simultaneous interpretation outputs were presented through TV broadcasts directly in spoken form or transcribed into written form. By comparing evaluations of spoken and written materials, it was found that interpreting outputs having the highest score for fidelity in the written form received the lowest score in the spoken form. This implies that a faithful interpretation may receive a poor evaluation if the interpreter’s performance is not up to par during delivery. On the other hand, performance factors such as the interpretor’s voice and accent were able to compensate for less fidelity in content. It is also worth noting that all respondents agreed on the importance of voice for interpretation outputs in the spoken form. Nevertheless, the value of fidelity in interpretation cannot be disputed. The findings of this study are expected to stimulate further research on practical strategies for broadcast interpreting.
국제언어인문학회 [INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMANISTIC STUDIES IN LANGUAGE]
설립연도
2000
분야
인문학>언어학
소개
국제언어인문학회는 '언어를 통한 인문학 연구'의 필요성에 동감하는 여러 전공분야 학자들의 뜻을 담고 있습니다. 언어에 초점을 맞추는 것은, 다양한 전공분야의 참여에서 생겨날 수 있는 '이질적 집합'의 상황을 극복하기 위한 장치입니다. 현재로서는 작은 불씨를 지핀 것에 불과합니다. 그러나 이렇게 일구어진 불꽃이 새로운 학풍의 바람결에 커다란 섬광으로 빛나게 될 날이 올 것을 우리는 확신합니다. 우리의 학회와 학술지는 인문학 불변의 가치와 시대적 사명을 인식하는 국내외의 학자들을 향해 활짝 개방되어 있습니다. 특정 전공의 범위를 넘어서서 철학, 문학, 언어학, 종교, 역사, 문화, 예술 등의 시각에서 언어의 본질을 토론할 기회가 될 것입니다.