English as a lingua franca-induced effects on cognitive load and interpreting quality

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Gieshoff, Anne Catherine

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dc.contributor.author	Albl-Mikasa, Michaela	-
dc.contributor.author	Gieshoff, Anne Catherine	-
dc.date.accessioned	2021-05-20T14:15:21Z	-
dc.date.available	2021-05-20T14:15:21Z	-
dc.date.issued	2021-04-09	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/22524	-
dc.description.abstract	Over the last decades, English has become the unchallenged lingua franca at international gatherings. English as a lingua franca (ELF) is not without consequences for interpreters in that they increasingly face the difficult task of having to interpret non-native speakers. Much of the ELF-related research in interpreting studies has so far focused on non-native accented speech. Current surveys among interpreters suggest, however, that accent is not the only difficulty. Instead, it seems that non-native speeches are characterized by a wide range of phenomena such as lack of cohesion and unclear argumentation, lexical and grammatical irregularities, increased explicitness and signs of processing, all of which may contribute to adding to the interpreters’ cognitive burden. In the SNSF-funded CLINT-project, we are currently addressing this research gap. Ongoing data collection allows us to look at the simultaneous English to German interpretations of 20 professional interpreters for the investigation of the effect of ELF on interpreting. The authentic source speech delivered at a conference on energy-related matters was produced by a non-native English speaker. It was recorded, transcribed and re-spoken by a Canadian native speaker to control for accent. In-depth analysis confirmed that it contained a considerable number of phenomena typical of ELF-speeches, which may affect interpreters’ cognitive load. Interpreters were also presented with a second version of the same speech which was edited to comply with standard British English. Ten participants interpreted the original ELF-version of the speech, the other ten participants interpreted the edited version of the same speech. Based on the assumption of higher cognitive load involved in interpreting an ELF speech, we expected to find an overall lower interpreting quality as well as an effect of fatigue, reflected in an earlier decline in interpreting quality. Interpreting quality is a multifaceted concept, a major aspect of which is accuracy or, more precisely, completeness and sense consistency with the source text. At the HKBU Conference we propose to present a promising method for the quantitative assessment of sense consistency and completeness of a target text over time. The newly designed method has been used on the first set of data, or first 20 interpretations, procured as part of the above-mentioned project.	de_CH
dc.language.iso	en	de_CH
dc.rights	Licence according to publishing contract	de_CH
dc.subject	Conference interpreting	de_CH
dc.subject	English as a lingua franca	de_CH
dc.subject	Cognitive load	de_CH
dc.subject	Interpreting quality	de_CH
dc.subject.ddc	418.02: Translationswissenschaft	de_CH
dc.subject.ddc	420: Englisch	de_CH
dc.title	English as a lingua franca-induced effects on cognitive load and interpreting quality	de_CH
dc.type	Konferenz: Sonstiges	de_CH
dcterms.type	Text	de_CH
zhaw.departement	Angewandte Linguistik	de_CH
zhaw.organisationalunit	Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen (IUED)	de_CH
zhaw.conference.details	2nd HKBU International Conference on Interpreting : Cognitive Approaches, online, 8-9 April 2021	de_CH
zhaw.funding.eu	No	de_CH
zhaw.originated.zhaw	Yes	de_CH
zhaw.pages.end	42	de_CH
zhaw.pages.start	41	de_CH
zhaw.publication.status	publishedVersion	de_CH
zhaw.publication.review	Not specified	de_CH
zhaw.title.proceedings	Programme Handbook of the 2nd Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting	de_CH
zhaw.funding.snf	173694	de_CH
zhaw.webfeed	Dolmetschwissenschaft	de_CH
zhaw.funding.zhaw	Cognitive Load in Interpreting and Translation (CLINT)	de_CH
zhaw.author.additional	No	de_CH
zhaw.display.portrait	Yes	de_CH
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Albl-Mikasa, M., & Gieshoff, A. C. (2021). English as a lingua franca-induced effects on cognitive load and interpreting quality [Conference presentation]. Programme Handbook of the 2nd Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting, 41–42.

Albl-Mikasa, M. and Gieshoff, A.C. (2021) ‘English as a lingua franca-induced effects on cognitive load and interpreting quality’, in Programme Handbook of the 2nd Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting, pp. 41–42.

M. Albl-Mikasa and A. C. Gieshoff, “English as a lingua franca-induced effects on cognitive load and interpreting quality,” in Programme Handbook of the 2nd Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting, Apr. 2021, pp. 41–42.

ALBL-MIKASA, Michaela und Anne Catherine GIESHOFF, 2021. English as a lingua franca-induced effects on cognitive load and interpreting quality. In: Programme Handbook of the 2nd Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting. Conference presentation. 9 April 2021. S. 41–42

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela, and Anne Catherine Gieshoff. 2021. “English as a Lingua Franca-Induced Effects on Cognitive Load and Interpreting Quality.” Conference presentation. In Programme Handbook of the 2nd Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting, 41–42.

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela, and Anne Catherine Gieshoff. “English as a Lingua Franca-Induced Effects on Cognitive Load and Interpreting Quality.” Programme Handbook of the 2nd Hong Kong Baptist University International Conference on Interpreting, 2021, pp. 41–42.