Testing the effort models’ tightrope hypothesis in simultaneous interpreting – a contribution

• Autor(a) principal: Gile, Autor: Daniel
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Weininger, Tradução de: Markus Johannes, Bleyer Ferreira dos Santos, Giovana, Barbosa, Diego Maurício
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Tradução (Florianópolis. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/traducao/article/view/2175-7968.2015v35nesp2p590

In a sample of 10 professionals interpreting the same source speech in the simultaneous mode, errors and omissions (e/o’s) were found to affect different source-speech segments, and a large proportion among them were only made by a small proportion of the subjects. In a repeat performance, there were some new e/o’s in the second version when the same interpreters had interpreted the relevant segments correctly in the first version. These findings are in line with the Effort Models’ ‘Tightrope Hypothesis’ that many e/o’s are due not to the intrinsic difficulty of the corresponding source-speech segments, but to the interpreters working close to processing capacity saturation, which makes them vulnerable to even small variations in the available processing capacity for each interpreting component.