Insults, offensive language, and taboo words in court interpreting in Spain: A corpus study of interpreted renditions by higher education students

: The court interpreter’s performance is integral to ensuring a fair trial. When dealing with insults, offensive language, and taboo words it is especially important to interpret renditions accurately and completely, as uttered insults or other expressions of verbal violence may be considered an agg...

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Autor: Hunt Gómez, Coral Ivy
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
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Profanity
Court interpreting
Taboo language
Spain
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spelling Insults, offensive language, and taboo words in court interpreting in Spain: A corpus study of interpreted renditions by higher education studentsHunt Gómez, Coral IvyInterpreter trainingProfanityCourt interpretingTaboo languageSpain: The court interpreter’s performance is integral to ensuring a fair trial. When dealing with insults, offensive language, and taboo words it is especially important to interpret renditions accurately and completely, as uttered insults or other expressions of verbal violence may be considered an aggravating factor of an offence, or they may in themselves constitute the offence of defamation [injuria] or defamatory allegation of a criminal offence [calumnia] under the Spanish Criminal Code. An experimental study was carried out in order to test the hypothesis that students with a good language and interpreting skills are unable to interpret this type of rendition in a court setting. A corpus was created compiling the renditions of 46 higher education students while they did the interpreting exercises from a collection of specific teaching materials based on the use of audiovisual recordings of real criminal trials (Hunt-Gómez, 2013). There were 123 renditions per student, with a total number of 5,658 renditions, of which only those containing insults, offensive language, or taboo words were analysed, transcribed, and categorised according to the student’s ability to convey meaning and to express the intensity of the original message. Results showed that dealing with impolite or taboo language was an added difficulty for students, despite their command of both their working languages and interpreting techniques. Consequently, interpreting training should include specific exercises in order to trigger students to produce a pragmatic equivalent when dealing with these types of renditions so that future interpreters are equipped with the appropriate strategies when faced with real-life situations.Trans-int.orgDidáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura y Filologías Integradas2023info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/11441/149313https://doi.org/10.12807/ti.115202.2023.a08reponame:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevillainstname:Universidad de Sevilla (US)InglésTranslation & interpreting The international journal for traslation and interpreting research(1836-9324), 15 (2), 125-141.https://dx.doi.org/10.12807/ti.115202.2023.a08info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:idus.us.es:11441/1493132026-06-17T12:51:07Z
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title Insults, offensive language, and taboo words in court interpreting in Spain: A corpus study of interpreted renditions by higher education students
spellingShingle Insults, offensive language, and taboo words in court interpreting in Spain: A corpus study of interpreted renditions by higher education students
Hunt Gómez, Coral Ivy
Interpreter training
Profanity
Court interpreting
Taboo language
Spain
title_short Insults, offensive language, and taboo words in court interpreting in Spain: A corpus study of interpreted renditions by higher education students
title_full Insults, offensive language, and taboo words in court interpreting in Spain: A corpus study of interpreted renditions by higher education students
title_fullStr Insults, offensive language, and taboo words in court interpreting in Spain: A corpus study of interpreted renditions by higher education students
title_full_unstemmed Insults, offensive language, and taboo words in court interpreting in Spain: A corpus study of interpreted renditions by higher education students
title_sort Insults, offensive language, and taboo words in court interpreting in Spain: A corpus study of interpreted renditions by higher education students
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Hunt Gómez, Coral Ivy
author Hunt Gómez, Coral Ivy
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Interpreter training
Profanity
Court interpreting
Taboo language
Spain
topic Interpreter training
Profanity
Court interpreting
Taboo language
Spain
description : The court interpreter’s performance is integral to ensuring a fair trial. When dealing with insults, offensive language, and taboo words it is especially important to interpret renditions accurately and completely, as uttered insults or other expressions of verbal violence may be considered an aggravating factor of an offence, or they may in themselves constitute the offence of defamation [injuria] or defamatory allegation of a criminal offence [calumnia] under the Spanish Criminal Code. An experimental study was carried out in order to test the hypothesis that students with a good language and interpreting skills are unable to interpret this type of rendition in a court setting. A corpus was created compiling the renditions of 46 higher education students while they did the interpreting exercises from a collection of specific teaching materials based on the use of audiovisual recordings of real criminal trials (Hunt-Gómez, 2013). There were 123 renditions per student, with a total number of 5,658 renditions, of which only those containing insults, offensive language, or taboo words were analysed, transcribed, and categorised according to the student’s ability to convey meaning and to express the intensity of the original message. Results showed that dealing with impolite or taboo language was an added difficulty for students, despite their command of both their working languages and interpreting techniques. Consequently, interpreting training should include specific exercises in order to trigger students to produce a pragmatic equivalent when dealing with these types of renditions so that future interpreters are equipped with the appropriate strategies when faced with real-life situations.
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