Zubkov Oleg Dmitrievich – Postgraduate student, Department of General and Comparative Linguistics, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russian Federation, Moscow, stabh7@gmail.com
The paper discusses the multimodal behavior (source text modifications, gesture use) of conference interpreters during remote simultaneous interpretation. It investigates the effect of working memory capacity and the stimulus delivery quality on interpreters’ multimodal behavior. An experiment followed by annotation of interpreters’ speech and gestures is conducted. Following the analysis of interpreter source text modifications (as a way of overcoming difficulties), the results show that stimulus delivery quality influences the number of difficulties encountered, modifications made, as well as the number of gestures performed.
remote simultaneous interpretation; multimodal behavior; gesture behavior; speech behavior; cognitive load; modifications of meaning.
Download textFor citing: Zubkov O.D. (2024). Source text modifications in overcoming cognitive difficulties of remote simultaneous interpretation. Human being: Image and essence. Humanitarian aspects. Moscow: INION RAN. Vol. 2(58). Р. 123-139. DOI: 10.31249/chel/2024.02.07