(Non-)Sense in note-taking for consecutive interpreting

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela

doi:10.21256/zhaw-4079

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Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	(Non-)Sense in note-taking for consecutive interpreting
Authors:	Albl-Mikasa, Michaela
DOI:	10.21256/zhaw-4079 10.1075/intp.10.2.03alb
Published in:	Interpreting
Volume(Issue):	10
Issue:	2
Page(s):	197
Pages to:	231
Issue Date:	2008
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	John Benjamins
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Amsterdam
ISSN:	1384-6647 1569-982X
Language:	English
Subjects:	Relevance theory; Consecutive interpreting; Note-taking; Notation text
Subject (DDC):	418.02: Translating and interpreting
Abstract:	The paper applies cognitive theories of text and language processing, and in particular relevance theory, to the analysis of notes in consecutive interpreting. In contrast to the pre-cognitive view, in which note-taking is seen mainly as a memory-supporting technique, the process of note-taking is described as the reception and production of a notation text. Adding the relevance-theoretical constructs of explicature and implicature to the general account of cognitive text processing as coherence building and the construction of a mental representation at local and global levels, this approach allows for the comparison of source, notation and target texts with respect to the underlying propositional representation, and shows how the sense of highly fragmentary notation texts is recovered in consecutive interpreting. The paper is based on an empirical study involving consecutive interpretations (English-German) by five trainee interpreters. The analysis shows that the interpreters operate relatively closely along micropropositional lines when processing the source, notation and target texts, with the explicature regularly having the same propositional form as the corresponding proposition in the source text.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/2453
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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Albl-Mikasa, M. (2008). (Non-)Sense in note-taking for consecutive interpreting. Interpreting, 10(2), 197–231. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4079

Albl-Mikasa, M. (2008) ‘(Non-)Sense in note-taking for consecutive interpreting’, Interpreting, 10(2), pp. 197–231. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4079.

M. Albl-Mikasa, “(Non-)Sense in note-taking for consecutive interpreting,” Interpreting, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 197–231, 2008, doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4079.

ALBL-MIKASA, Michaela, 2008. (Non-)Sense in note-taking for consecutive interpreting. Interpreting. 2008. Bd. 10, Nr. 2, S. 197–231. DOI 10.21256/zhaw-4079

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela. 2008. “(Non-)Sense in Note-Taking for Consecutive Interpreting.” Interpreting 10 (2): 197–231. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4079.

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela. “(Non-)Sense in Note-Taking for Consecutive Interpreting.” Interpreting, vol. 10, no. 2, 2008, pp. 197–231, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4079.