Directionality And Text Typology In English-Arabic-English Simultaneous Interpreting: Impact On Strategic Performance
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2015-10
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FRAIHAT, OMAR ALI
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This research investigates the impact of text typology on simultaneous
interpreters' strategic performance in both interpreting directions Arabic-English-
Arabic. To provide deeper insight into the actual problems encountered by the
graduate interpretation students and to explore their problem solving protocol, the
mixed sequential method (quan-Qual) was adopted along with the mixed product and
process-oriented approach. Findings of this integrated data collection and analysis
showed that the familiarity with the text type being interpreted plays an influential
factor on interpreters' strategic performance (use and choice of certain strategies). In
addition, it was uncovered that the familiarity with the text type also has impact on
the directionality performance of interpreters. The quantitative analysis showed that a
clear impact of text typology on participants' strategic performance was noted. The
frequencies of achievement strategies (ASs) were apparently higher when they were
interpreting Arabic into English in the political (78.97%) and academic (71.11%)
field compared to the business text which scored lower frequency of ASs (64.24).
Analysis of the interpreting processes showed that unfamiliarity with the business
field might be a reason for this divergence. Another possible reason is that
interpretation students were trained more in the political texts compared to others.
However, the percentages of ASs frequencies are still higher from the reduction
strategies (RSs). This provides evidence that their control of their native language
made adopt ASs and fix the encountered communicative problems in the source texts
(Arabic) with a varying degree among them.
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Directionality And Text Typology In English-Arabic-English Simultaneous Interpreting , Impact On Strategic Performance