Article,
Interpreter mediated TV events
Target: International Journal on Translation Studies, (1999)
Abstract
The major claims made here pertain to: (1) The dominant role of the Participants paremetel; where distinction is made between the 'on-screen' and the 'off-screen' casts, with the lnterpreter acting as Mediator in two communicative channels; (2) The specificity of the TV product as a Polysemiotic Text, consisting of a variety of Language and Non-Language components, and the way it affects the Interpreter's peiformance; (3) The communicative goals of the two casts of Primary Participants and the strategies employed to attain them in a situation highly marked from a kinesthetic and proxemic point of view, which ofien leads to shzfts in the Interpreter 's output, and (4) The factors determining the choice of the optimum mode of interpreting
