| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | “Everybody speaks English nowadays” : ELF and conference interpreters’ self-perception of status |
| Authors: | Gentile, Paola Albl-Mikasa, Michaela |
| et. al: | No |
| Published in: | Cultus : the journal of intercultural mediation and communication |
| Volume(Issue): | 10 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page(s): | 53 |
| Pages to: | 66 |
| Issue Date: | 2017 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Iconesoft Edizioni |
| ISSN: | 2035-3111 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | English as a lingua franca; English as a lingua franca; Conference interpreting; Conference interpreting; Community interpreting; Community interpreting; Self-perception; Self-perception |
| Subject (DDC): | 418.02: Translating and interpreting 420: English |
| Abstract: | The unprecedented spread of English as the first global lingua franca for international communication has been identified in the literature on conference interpreting as one of the most significant issues for interpreting today. English as a lingua franca (ELF) is a major force of change for the profession and is generally viewed highly critically by professional interpreters, because it pushes them into a subsidiary role in dealing with multilingual communication. This paper looks at conference interpreters’ perception of the impact of ELF on their profession and the ensuing changes, on the basis of the introspective comments made on ELF in Gentile’s 2016 global survey on interpreters’ self-perception of their professional status. The comments take particular significance from the fact that they picked out ELF as a central theme without any explicit formulation in the questions prompting respondents to do so. This can be taken as a clear sign of the importance interpreters attach to developments related to ELF. Aspects addressed in the answers to the open questions fall into three broad categories: (1) the adverse effects of the spread of ELF on market conditions, (2) a decline in interpreter Status and (3) an impoverishment of communication in international encounters. The paper provides a detailed account of the unsolicited qualitative comments on ELF by the respondents of Gentile’s survey and links them back to the results so far produced in the emerging subdiscipline of ITELF (interpreting, translation and English as a lingua franca) (Albl-Mikasa 2017). |
| URI: | http://www.cultusjournal.com/files/Archives/Gentile_Albl-Mikasa.pdf https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/19044 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Applied Linguistics |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik |
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Gentile, P., & Albl-Mikasa, M. (2017). “Everybody speaks English nowadays” : ELF and conference interpreters’ self-perception of status. Cultus : The Journal of Intercultural Mediation and Communication, 10(1), 53–66. http://www.cultusjournal.com/files/Archives/Gentile_Albl-Mikasa.pdf
Gentile, P. and Albl-Mikasa, M. (2017) ‘“Everybody speaks English nowadays” : ELF and conference interpreters’ self-perception of status’, Cultus : the journal of intercultural mediation and communication, 10(1), pp. 53–66. Available at: http://www.cultusjournal.com/files/Archives/Gentile_Albl-Mikasa.pdf.
P. Gentile and M. Albl-Mikasa, ““Everybody speaks English nowadays” : ELF and conference interpreters’ self-perception of status,” Cultus : the journal of intercultural mediation and communication, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 53–66, 2017, [Online]. Available: http://www.cultusjournal.com/files/Archives/Gentile_Albl-Mikasa.pdf
GENTILE, Paola und Michaela ALBL-MIKASA, 2017. “Everybody speaks English nowadays” : ELF and conference interpreters’ self-perception of status. Cultus : the journal of intercultural mediation and communication [online]. 2017. Bd. 10, Nr. 1, S. 53–66. Verfügbar unter: http://www.cultusjournal.com/files/Archives/Gentile_Albl-Mikasa.pdf
Gentile, Paola, and Michaela Albl-Mikasa. 2017. ““Everybody Speaks English Nowadays” : ELF and Conference Interpreters’ Self-Perception of Status.” Cultus : The Journal of Intercultural Mediation and Communication 10 (1): 53–66. http://www.cultusjournal.com/files/Archives/Gentile_Albl-Mikasa.pdf.
Gentile, Paola, and Michaela Albl-Mikasa. ““Everybody Speaks English Nowadays” : ELF and Conference Interpreters’ Self-Perception of Status.” Cultus : The Journal of Intercultural Mediation and Communication, vol. 10, no. 1, 2017, pp. 53–66, http://www.cultusjournal.com/files/Archives/Gentile_Albl-Mikasa.pdf.
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