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Attention-Sharing Initiative of Multimodal Processing in Simultaneous Interpreting

Attention-Sharing Initiative of Multimodal Processing in Simultaneous Interpreting

Tianyun Li, Bicheng Fan
Copyright: © 2020 |Volume: 2 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 12
ISSN: 2575-6974|EISSN: 2575-6982|EISBN13: 9781799808664|DOI: 10.4018/IJTIAL.20200701.oa4
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Li, Tianyun, and Bicheng Fan. "Attention-Sharing Initiative of Multimodal Processing in Simultaneous Interpreting." IJTIAL vol.2, no.2 2020: pp.42-53. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJTIAL.20200701.oa4

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Li, T. & Fan, B. (2020). Attention-Sharing Initiative of Multimodal Processing in Simultaneous Interpreting. International Journal of Translation, Interpretation, and Applied Linguistics (IJTIAL), 2(2), 42-53. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJTIAL.20200701.oa4

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Li, Tianyun, and Bicheng Fan. "Attention-Sharing Initiative of Multimodal Processing in Simultaneous Interpreting," International Journal of Translation, Interpretation, and Applied Linguistics (IJTIAL) 2, no.2: 42-53. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJTIAL.20200701.oa4

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Abstract

This study sets out to describe simultaneous interpreters' attention-sharing initiatives when exposed under input from both videotaped speech recording and real-time transcriptions. Separation of mental energy in acquiring visual input accords with the human brain's statistic optimization principle where the same property of an object is presented through diverse fashions. In examining professional interpreters' initiatives, the authors invited five professional English-Chinese conference interpreters to simultaneously interpret a videotaped speech with real-time captions generated by speech recognition engine while meanwhile monitoring their eye movements. The results indicate the professional interpreters' preferences in referring to visually presented captions along with the speaker's facial expressions, where low-frequency words, proper names, and numbers gained greater attention than words with higher frequency. This phenomenon might be explained by the working memory theory in which the central executive enables redundancy gains retrieved from dual-channel information.