Gesture and Language Comprehension in Simultaneous Interpreting

Diplôme Thèse Gesture and Language Comprehension in Simultaneous Interpreting eng 2023-02-16 author Arbona Eléonore 0000-0003-3770-6907 800721 director Seeber Kilian 0000-0002-7903-6246 513613 Département d'interprétation (INT) director Gullberg Marianne 179 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:167818 urn:nbn:ch:unige-1678185 FTI 43 When we speak, we spontaneously gesture with our hands. But these gestures are not anecdotal, superfluous “illustrations” of what is being said. Instead, they are thought to be part and parcel of language. In other words, gestures and speech are assumed to form an integrated system. Furthermore, gestures can facilitate language comprehension in monolingual and multilingual settings. Our particular interest is in simultaneous interpreting, a multilingual setting involving concurrent language comprehension and production in two languages. As such, it is one of the most complex language tasks. But what role do speakers’ gestures play for interpreters during simultaneous interpreting? This question is the focus of this thesis. We report on empirical work investigating (1) whether speakers’ gestures facilitate language comprehension during simultaneous interpreting; (2) whether speakers’ gestures facilitate language comprehension during simultaneous interpreting in degraded listening conditions; and (3) whether gestures and speech <i>mutually</i> and <i>obligatorily</i> interact during language processing in simultaneous interpreting. Gesture Simultaneous interpreting Multimodality Eye-tracking Behavioural Language comprehension Psycholinguistics Dewey 418.02 113 Département d'interprétation 93 false 1363 LaborInt d285fd5a-1a4d-485a-b2a7-03a535b369a0 Thesis Public Thesis_archive ouverte.pdf 1905913 application/pdf Restricted 2023-12-31 36a0700e09ea8ebd7b9d6f0213677a1b57cb86ed58c16c9ab50e67e2e60af2a9 d631ba15-d7ac-4c62-b3ca-cb618c5fadcb Appendix Public Appendices_final_after_corrections.pdf 16763027 application/pdf Restricted 2023-12-31 82fa6e63812d6de7ac2f62556bbe561622544183d884a11467951d6a5af6bf65 f53ad2fa-bee0-4017-82d3-e865b2ec1aad Imprimatur Public 2023 02 16_Lettre Imprimatur_E. Arb.pdf 72815 application/pdf 7f9c9491ca25c86d0cc74b1bab7dbeb859cc669136e1c9f0c01fe8a21560e4c3 openAccess Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département d'interprétation

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