QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF INTERPRETING OBAMA'S FAREWELL SPEECH
Keywords:
Interpreting, source language, target language, quality assessment, requirement.Abstract
Interpreting is a process adopted by a skillful and well qualified interpreter to convey orally the meaning from a source language into a target language simultaneously .In this process the interpreter has no time to think or check the exact meaning of the words, phrases and sentences. The main technique used by the interpreter is based on his/her competence .This type of translation is used in press conferences and political speeches of high rank figures.
This paper deals with analyzing the interpretation of Obama's farewell speech adopted by two authentic TV Channels(Sky News and AL- Jazeera).The aim of this paper is to investigate the quality of each interpreting by adopting Nida's (1996:164) four basic requirements of a successful translation as a model.
This paper finds that the quality of interpreting of (AL-Jazeera TL2is more successful than (Sky newsTL1 )
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18. Lambert ,S.(2004) :Shared attention during sight translation, sight interpretation and simultaneous interpretation. Meta 49(2),244-306.
19. Leech,G.(1974): Semantics. Harmondsworth:Penguin.
20. Malmkjaer,K.(2002): "Functional Linguistics".In K. Malmkjaer. The Linguistic Encyclopedia . London:Routledge.
21. Newmark,P.(1981): Approaches to Translation.Oxford:Pergaman Press.
22. -Nida ,E.A. (1964):Toward a Science of Translating :With Special Reference to Principles and Procedures Involved in Bible Translating.Leiden:E.J.Brill.
23. -Ockulska,U. and Cap,P. (2010): Perspectives in Politics and Discourse. John Benjamin Publishing.
24. -Pignataro, C. (2011) ‘Skilled-based and Knowledge-based Strategies in Television Interpreting’, The Interpreters' Newsletter, 16, pp. 81-98.
25. -Pöchhacker, F. (2011) ‘Researching TV Interpreting: Selected Studies of US Presidential Material'. Available at: https://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/bitstream/10077/8252/1/NL_16_4.pdf.
26. -Reisigl,M.(2006): Rhetorical Tropes in Political Discourse.University of Vienna.
27. --------------(2008) ‘Rhetoric of Political Speeches’, in Wodak, R. & Koller, V. (eds.) Handbook of Communication in the Public Sphere. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
28. -Richards,J.C. Platt,J.and Platt,H. (1992): Longman Dictionary of Teaching an Applied Linguistics. London:Longman.
29. -Setton,R.(2005):So what is interesting about Simultaneous Interpreting?SKASE.Journal of Translation and Interpretation.
30. Schäffner, C. (1997) ‘Strategies of Translating Political Texts’ in Trosborg, A. (ed.) Text Typology and Translation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
31. ----------------(2011): Unknown Agents in Political Discourse.
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QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF INTERPRETING OBAMA’S FAREWELL SPEECH. (2018). Journal of the College of Languages (JCL), 38, 88-110. https://jcolang.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/JCL/article/view/109
