Project description
Unravelling the cognitive mechanisms shaping interpreters’ (un)faithfulness
In the world of multilingual communication, the need for fluency-as-fidelity poses a challenge. From interpreting to political discourse, the traditional understanding of fluency falls short in capturing the nuanced intricacies of this vital skill. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, the FAITH project is poised to unravel the cognitive threads that shape interpreters’ fluency and faithfulness. By unifying interpreting corpora and delving into political contexts, it pioneers a multimodal and intersectional approach, providing valuable insights into explicitations and language forms. By addressing longstanding questions in interpreting studies and promoting intercultural understanding, the project contributes to the EU’s mission of promoting European interests and values on the global stage.
Objective
Professional interpreters provide the highest quality and most instantaneous type of multilingual communication. Across interpreting in spoken and signed languages, users evoke the notion of ‘fluency-as-fidelity’ when they engage with and evaluate interpreters. This notion is also applied to language learners and politicians. This implies that fluency taps into a universal cognitive-evaluative mechanism that provides information about the speaker in communicative contexts. Recent research on fluency has explored small corpora of interpreting and shown the value of the usage-based theory in connecting the social and cognitive underpinnings of fluency. However, prior studies fail to represent the multimodal context of interpreting and remain removed from end users. The intersectional embedding of this notion and the process of explicating meanings in creating fluency often go unnoticed.
The project ‘Fluency As faITHfulness: A cognitive approach to an interpreting mega-corpus’ (FAITH) investigates the role of fluency in the production and perception of faithfulness. The objective will be to explain how interpreters create (un)faithfulness using cognitive abilities such as chunking and construal. It will do so by unifying existing interpreting corpora, comparing the production and perception of fluency in political interpreting, and empirically demonstrating the cognitive basis of explicitations in interpreting. FAITH will contribute the first multimodal, intermodal and open-access interpreting corpus and implement for the first time multimodality and intersectionality in corpus-based interpreting studies. It will provide answers to long-standing questions concerning the nature of the faithfulness norm, the explicitation ‘universal’ and language forms in interpreting. Cumulatively, FAITH will further the EU priority of “Promoting European interests and values on the global stage” by enabling intercultural understanding between policymakers and diverse groups.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Italy
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