L1: Introduction To Consecutive Translation

Question 1

interpretation occurs whenever a message originating orally in one language is reformulated and retransmitted orally in a second language.

Is the definition of ________, by ________.

Answer 1

Interpreting, Anderson.

Question 2

Interpreting is a form of Translation in which a first and a final language is produced on the basis of a one-time presentation of a utterance in a source language.

This is the definition of ________, by ________.

Answer 2

Interpreting, Pöchhacker.

Question 3

The distinction between various types of interpretation is based on the criteria of ________, ________, ________, ________.

Answer 3

Mode, setting, directionality, language modality.

Question 4

Modes of Interpreting:
1.
2.
3.
4.

Answer 4

1. Consecutive Interpreting
2. Simultaneous Interpreting
3. Whispered Interpreting
4. Sight Interpreting

Question 5

Consecutive Interpreting is ________ ________.

Answer 5

After the speaker is finished

Question 6

Simultaneous Interpreting is ________ ________.

Answer 6

While the delegate is speaking.

Question 7

Whispered Interpretation is ________ ________.

Answer 7

Whispered simultaneous Interpreting.

Question 8

Sight Interpreting is ________ ________.

Answer 8

Simultaneous Interpreting of a written text.

Question 9

List the settings of interpretation.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Answer 9

1. Community Interpreting
2. Conference Interpreting
3. Court Interpreting
4. Escort Interpreting
5. Media Interpreting
6. Remote Interpreting

Question 10

List Directionality of Interpreting.

1.
2.
3.

Answer 10

1. Bilateral Interpreting
2. Retour Interpreting
3. Relay Interpreting

Question 11

Bilateral Interpreting is ________ ________.

Answer 11

As in conversation.

Question 12

Retour Interpreting is ________ ________.

Answer 12

working from your mother tongue into a foreign language.

Question 13

Relay Interpreting is ________ ________.

Answer 13

between two languages via a third.

Question 14

In ________, a distinction is made between ‘spoken-language interpreting’ and ‘signed-language Interpreting.’

Answer 14

Language Modality

Question 15

Consecutive Interpreting is one of the types of ________ translation during which the speaker makes a pause necessary for the interpreter to translate all of the above said.

The main advantage is the ________ thatbis the possibility of movement of the discussion group.

Answer 15

oral

mobility

Question 16

In consecutive Interpreting, the interpreter speaks after the target-language speaker has finished speaker. ( )

Answer 16

X

Source-language

Question 17

In long Consecutive Interpretation the interpreter relies on memory, each message segment being brief enough to memorize. ( )

Answer 17

X

Long CI

Question 18

One of the most important steps in the consecutive translation is that the interpreter should adhere to the ________ ________.

Answer 18

translation ethics

Question 19

The interpreter should be playing the role of a mediator during the negotiations that would afford rendering the speech deficiencies of the speaker. ( )

Answer 19

X

Would NOT afford rendering the speech

Question 20

The interpreter should never interfere in the discussion as well as exaggerate or underestimate all that was said during conversation. ( )

Answer 20

V

Question 21

Consecutive interpretation was the first mode of interpretation widely used at international meetings. ( )

Answer 21

V

Question 22

Some of the finest moments in consecutive Interpreting occurred in the meetings of the League of Nations at the end of the World War II. ( )

Answer 22

X

End of World War I

Question 23

Some of the finest moments in consecutive Interpreting occurred at the time of the Paris Peace Conference. ( )

Answer 23

V

Question 24

The pioneers of the Consecutive Interpreting method were ________, ________, founder of Geneva Interpreters School, ________.

Answer 24

Paul Mantoux, Antoine Velleman, Jean Herbert.

Question 25

Jean Herbert recruited the first team of interpreters for the first United Nations General Assembly, held in London in ________.

Answer 25

1946

Question 26

consecutive interpreters vigorously resisted “the offensive” of the new ________ mode of interpretation, by the late ________ they were no longer able to prevent it from becoming the method predominantly used in the meetings of the main bodies of the United Nations.

Answer 26

simultaneous

1940s

Question 27

The basic principles of Consecutive Interpreting:

1.
2.
3.

Answer 27

1. Understanding
2. Analyzing
3. Re-expressing