1. Interpreting and Ideology II Dr Morven Beaton-Thome
Topics in Translation
Interpreting and Ideology II
Dr Morven Beaton-Thome

2. Interpreting and Ideology II
Aims
to locate Interpreting as a specific domain of research investigation in Translation Studies;
to discuss and define Ideology as a key area of interest in this domain;
to present and critically review research methodologies and findings in this area;
to raise awareness of salient ideological aspects of language mediation.

3. Interpreting and Ideology II
“The oral translation of oral discourse” (Gile 1998:40)

4. Interpreting and Ideology II
Simultaneous Interpreting
the quasi-simultaneous (Kirchhoff 2002: 112) transformation of oral text presented by a speaker in one language, the source text (ST), in oral text in another language, the target text (TT).

5. Interpreting and Ideology II
in the neutral sense of a world view, a largely unconscious theory of the way the world works accepted as common-sense” (Fowler 1985: 65).

6. Interpreting and Ideology I
Interpreting and Ideology: Types of Research
Corpus-based Text/Discourse Analysis
Sociological Research

7. Interpreting and Ideology II
Text/Discourse Analysis in the EU institutional context (Beaton 2007)
Text in studies of interpreting
Text: “a communicative occurrence” (Beaugrande & Dressler 1981:3)
Distinction between written and spoken text
Mode (Halliday 1978) of ST is hybrid
Recording and transcription of data
Data Analysis

8. Interpreting and Ideology II
Theoretical Framework
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
Ideology is manifest in discourse which in turn is manifest in text
Conceptual Metaphor strings
Lexical Repetition
Intertextuality

9. Interpreting and Ideology II
Theoretical Framework
Dialogised Heteroglossia (Bakhtin)
Centripetal force [unitary language of a dominant ideology, such as EU institutional hegemony (fragments of a shared dominant ideology)]
Centrifugal force [heteroglossic language of a non-dominant ideology, such as interpreter axiology (personal system of beliefs and ethics)]

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Findings: Strengthening of EU institutional hegemony in TT
Intertextuality
Omission of intertextual reference in TT
Lexical Repetition
Stylistic explicitation using institutional terms in TT
Conceptual Metaphor Strings
Aspects of conceptual metaphors occurred earlier in the TT than the ST and were expanded considerably more in the TT
Thus, the very fact that institutional communication is interpreted is, in itself, ideologically significant.

11. Sociological Research
Sociological approaches to the asylum process in the UK [Inghilleri (2003,2005a, 2005b, 2007)]
Investigation of the nationalist agenda in the political asylum system in the United Kingdom
Tension between public discourses oriented towards mutual understanding (democratic iterations) and discourses in which pre-established power relations are maintained (authorised discourses)(Inghilleri 2007:195).

12. Sociological Research
Sociological research (Inghilleri)
‘Objective’ role of the interpreter?
“The interpreters involved in this process do not come from nowhere” (Inghilleri 2007:207)
Cooptation (of interpreters into the asylum system (Inghilleri 2007:208)
Cooptation: the tactic of neutralizing or winning over a minority by assimilating them into the established group or culture

13. Sociological Research
Model of norms in interpreted political asylum interviews (Inghilleri 2003)
Bourdieu
Habitus: “a set of durable dispositions to act in particular ways” (Inghilleri 2003:245)
Interpreting norms
The interpreter as conduit
The interpreter as community advocate
The interpreter’s invisibility
Monolingual monoculture

14. Sociological Approaches
Interpreters as “pivotal players in the emergence of a global society, not in some over-idealised linguistic or cultural conduit role but as participants in discourse” (Inghilleri 2007:210)