scholarly journals The Interpreter as Actor: Towards a Theatre-Informed Interpreting pedagogy

Sendebar ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 146-161
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Kritsis
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Similar Relationship ◽  
Immediate Feedback ◽  
Metaphorical Language ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Training

One of the many ways in which metaphorical language has been used to describe spoken language interpreting has drawn on the similarities the interpreters’ work shares with that of stage actors endeavouring to imitate the style and demeanour of different speakers. The parallels between interpreters and actors, however, run much deeper: both share a similar relationship with the written and spoken word; both rely on their verbal and non-verbal communication skills to encode and decode information transmitted in real time in front of an audience; both receive immediate feedback on their performance and rely on similar tools when preparing for one. By outlining the main areas in which their working and training paths intersect, it is the aim of this study to attempt to chart the interfaces between interpreters and actors and thereby contribute to the development of a theatre-informed interpreting pedagogy.

scholarly journals KOMUNIKASI VERBAL ANAK PESISIR USIA 7-8 TAHUN PADA TRANSAKSI PENJUALAN PRODUK KEBUDAYAAN DENGAN TURIS MANCANEGARA

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edhy Rustan ◽  
Subhan Subhan
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Data Model ◽  
Communication Skill ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Communication Patterns ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Two Factors

This study aims to obtain a description of children’s second language verbal communication skills aged 7-8 years in the activity of buying and selling transactions with foreign tourists. This research was conducted in South Coastal Coast of Central Lombok Regency of West Nusa Tenggara. This research is a qualitative study of case study by Milles and Hubberman model data analysis technique with four stages of interalain analysis (1) data collection, (2) data reduction, (3) data display and (4) drawing conclusion. The results of this study indicate that the verbal communication skills of coastal children are obtained partially covering three linguistic components; vocabulary, shipping and grammatical arrangement. The process of acquiring verbal communication skills is influenced by two factors, namely family pressure and self-exposure of children to the coastal tourism environment that encourages children to sell cultural products to foreign tourists. For these purposes, coastal children use two common patterns of second language verbal communication, ie direct verbal communication patterns (spoken word) and indirect verbal communication patterns (writing word). Keyword: Verbal communication skill, Children aged 7-8 years. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memeroleh gambaran kemampuan komunikasi verbal bahasa kedua anak usia 7-8 tahun dalam kegiatan transaksi jual beli dengan turis mancanegara. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Pesisir Pantai Selatan Kabupaten Lombok Tengah Nusa Tenggara Barat. Penelitian ini adalah studi kasus dengan teknik analisis data model Milles dan Hubberman dengan empat tahapan analisis yang meliputi (1) pengumpulan data, (2) reduksi data, (3) display data, dan (4) penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa kemampuan komunikasi verbal anak pesisir pantai cenderung diperoleh secara parsial; mencakup tiga komponen kebahasaan antaralain kosakata, pelafalan  dan susunan gramatikal. Adapun proses pemerolehan kemampuan komunikasi verbal tersebut dipengaruhi oleh dua faktor yaitu tekanan keluarga dan ekspos diri anak pada lingkungan pariwisata pantai yang mendorong anak untuk berjualan produk-produk kebudayaan kepada para turis mancanegara. Untuk kepentingan tersebut, anak pesisir pantai menggunakan dua pola umum komunikasi verbal bahasa kedua, yaitu pola komunikasi verbal langsung (spoken word) dan pola komunikasi verbal tidak langsung (writing word). Kata Kunci: kemampuan komunikasi verbal, anak usia 7-8 tahun

Dyadic Verbal Communication Abilities of Learning Disabled and Normally Achieving Fourth- and Fifth-Grade Boys

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Spekman
Keyword(s):  
Information Content ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Fifth Grade ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Normally Achieving ◽  
5Th Grade ◽  
And Training

This study examined the dyadic verbal communication skills of learning disabled and normally achieving 4th- and 5th-grade boys. The performances of 12 learning disabled children paired with 12 normally achieving children were compared with those of 12 dyads composed only of normally achieving children. The children exchanged information regarding a pattern of blocks under conditions varying the channels available for communication and feedback. All children performed the tasks in both Speaker and Listener roles. A measure of dyadic success was determined. In addition, the language used by the children was examined to obtain information on such variables as information content, response to questions, questions asked, and amount and efficiency of interactions. Dyads involving learning disabled children were found to be less successful and less efficient than those consisting of only normally achieving children. Further, the learning disabled children performed less successfully in certain aspects of the Speaker and Listener roles. Implications for assessment, class performance, and training are discussed.

scholarly journals Language processing in the natural world

2007 ◽  
Vol 363 (1493) ◽  
pp. 1105-1122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael K Tanenhaus ◽  
Sarah Brown-Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Complete Understanding ◽  
Reference Resolution ◽  
Spoken Language Processing ◽  
Natural Tasks

The authors argue that a more complete understanding of how people produce and comprehend language will require investigating real-time spoken-language processing in natural tasks, including those that require goal-oriented unscripted conversation. One promising methodology for such studies is monitoring eye movements as speakers and listeners perform natural tasks. Three lines of research that adopt this approach are reviewed: (i) spoken word recognition in continuous speech, (ii) reference resolution in real-world contexts, and (iii) real-time language processing in interactive conversation. In each domain, results emerge that provide insights which would otherwise be difficult to obtain. These results extend and, in some cases, challenge standard assumptions about language processing.

Spoken language features (and anomalies) in films for ESL classes

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-425
Author(s):  
Patrizia Giampieri
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Pedagogical Intervention ◽  
Colloquial Language ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
L2 Learners ◽  
Conversational Language ◽  
The Many ◽  
Lost In Translation

Abstract It is argued that learning a language through films is enjoyable, useful and motivating. At the same time, despite being scripted, film dialogues are claimed to mirror authentic conversational language. This paper is aimed at exploring whether films provide useful and interesting instances of spoken language. These can be used in ESL (English as a Second Language) classes in order to foster second language (L2) learners’ communication skills. To this aim, a trial pedagogical intervention was carried out in which students were exposed to film excerpts and prompted to highlight spoken language features and anomalies. In order to foster learners’ noticing and comparing, the dubbed versions of the film excerpts were also addressed. The paper argues that the many instances of authentic colloquial language in film can be exploited in ESL classes. As far as the dubbed versions are concerned, this paper will demonstrate that not all dialogues are dubbed faithfully and many features of spoken language are unfortunately “lost in translation”. Nonetheless, exposing L2 learners to film sequences in both the original and dubbed versions can be useful in order to raise their awareness and foster noticing and comparing.

Toward a real-time spoken language system using commercial hardware

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Austin ◽  
Pat Peterson ◽  
Paul Placeway ◽  
Richard Schwartz ◽  
Jeff Vandergrift
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Language System

scholarly journals Piloting the Play Cycle Observation Method in ‘real time’: Recording children’s Play Cycles in pre-school provision

2020 ◽  
pp. 1476718X2096985
Author(s):  
Pete King ◽  
LaDonna Atkins ◽  
Brandon Burr
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Real Time ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Good Reliability ◽  
Rater Reliability ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Observational Tool ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
And Training

The Play Cycle Observation Method (PCOM) is an observational tool developed to focus on the process of play and has shown good reliability when watching videos of children playing. This study piloted use of the PCOM in ‘real time’ in a pre-school setting where 3-year-old children play. The results from two independent observers not familiar with the concept of the Play Cycle or the PCOM found good inter-rater reliability using Cohen Kappa (k) when observing play cues to form play cycles, as well as observing play cues within established play cycles. In addition, the recording of the nature of the play cues and play returns, the play frame and how the play cycle finishes (annihilation) were shown to be consistent between the two inter-rater observers. The results of this pilot study indicate the PCOM can be used as an observational tool to record the process of play by both students and practitioners working in a range of contexts including playwork, childcare, early years and statutory education. The PCOM can also be used as a teaching and training aid for trainers and lecturers.

Seeking “skilled, poised, fluent” verbal communicators: Aesthetic labor and signaling in journalism job advertisements

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-28
Author(s):  
Elia Powers
Keyword(s):  
Communication Skills ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Verbal Communication ◽  
Barriers To Entry ◽  
Speech Anxiety ◽  
Interactional Expertise ◽  
Verbal Skills ◽  
Aesthetic Labor ◽  
Job Advertisements ◽  
The Ideal

Journalism job advertisements send important signals about valued skills and attributes. How such advertisements articulate journalistic expertise, including interactional expertise, has been studied, but signals about verbal communication usually have been overlooked. Little is known about how journalism employers define the most valued communication skills and the ideal journalistic voice. This signaling theory study explores expectations advertisements convey for how journalists should sound through a thematic analysis of U.S. journalism job listings (n = 510) specifying substantial verbal communication. Requirements for exceptional verbal skills and explicit calls for vocal clarity raise barriers to entry for journalists with speech disabilities or speech anxiety.

How words make the world: language materialities and the circulation of the Sakha algys

Multilingua ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenanne Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
World Language ◽  
Material World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article investigates contemporary uses of the Sakha language algys (blessing poems) and reveals the “old” and “new” types of language materiality present in this genre of ritual poetry. Focusing primarily on one example of algys shared online in 2018, I discuss how performing algys has always involved close interconnection between language and the material world and present the changing contexts and forms of algys transmission that highlight both fixity and fluidity in the way speakers conceive of language and materiality. Despite the new mobilities and technologies that build upon the previously established written textual forms of this poetry—and contribute to its continued circulation and transmission—certain elements of traditional algys remains salient for speakers, reinforced by ideologies or ontologies of language that foreground the power of the (spoken) word. This is connected to the production of qualia and the invocation of chronotopes. Thus, while textual forms further enable processes of citationality as they are circulated online; the written words alone do not constitute an algys. Rather, here the importance of embodied, spoken language materiality is at the fore.

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