The Interaction and Language Management of Interpreting

Course Code: CLITG008

Credits: 30.


This MA course, “The interaction and language management of interpreting”, consists of a series of lectures examining: roles of interpreters in interaction; interaction management in interpreter and remote-interpreter mediated events; the language product of interpreters; the prosody of interpreting; the pragmatic decisions made by interpreters; register in interpreting; interpreting and cognition; interpreting, fatigue and team working; interpreters and language directionality.

Assessment:
Students are assessed by course work (100%). The course work consists of either a 1 500-word essay analyzing a 5-minute interpretation with an ELAN annotation or a 3 000-word essay from a list of questions.

Course convenor: Chris Stone

Tutor: TBA

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