The impact of lexical density in simultaneous interpreting of slide presentations: A replication

Diplôme Master The impact of lexical density in simultaneous interpreting of slide presentations: A replication eng 2020 author Sainsbury Christopher 896815 director Seeber Kilian 0000-0002-7903-6246 513613 PowerPoint and other digital slide presentations are now commonplace in the conference room, but there remains little research into their impact on the challenging cognitive process of simultaneous interpreting. This thesis replicates a previous study exploring the impact of the lexical density (the proportion of words in a text with lexical properties) and visual clarity of visual input on simultaneous interpreters' fluency. Student interpreters work with varying PowerPoint presentations and their output is evaluated by counting prosodic disfluencies. On average, the interpretations of speeches accompanied by less lexically dense and less visually clear presentations (where the same information was displayed in more words) are found to be more fluent, confirming the counterintuitive results of the original study. This suggests visually displayed keywords are more difficult to process than full sentences during simultaneous interpretation; there is growing evidence that simultaneous interpreters interact with slide presentations very differently to audiences Visual input Powerpoint Slides Simultaneous interpreting Si Si+t Conference interpreting Lexical density Fluency Prosody Pauses Replication Visual clarity Dewey 418.02 Maîtrise universitaire en interprétation de conférence 113 Département d'interprétation 93 false 0621a72e-fcb2-4bd2-b106-1b82de80be47 Master thesis Public Christopher_Sainsbury_Memoire_Final.pdf 1609976 application/pdf openAccess Faculté de traduction et d'interprétation / Département d'interprétation

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