The Use of Self-Repairs by Interpreters in Investigative Interviews: A Case Study of an Untrained Korean-Russian Interpreter (피의자신문 통역 담화분석을 통해 본 비전문 통역인의 자기발화수정 양상: 러시아어 사례를 중심으로)

Jieun Lee (이지은); Hong SeoYen (홍서연)

doi:10.15749/jts.2020.21.5.009

The Use of Self-Repairs by Interpreters in Investigative Interviews: A Case Study of an Untrained Korean-Russian Interpreter

The Journal of Translation Studies
Abbr : JTS
2020, 21(5), pp.237-267
DOI : 10.15749/jts.2020.21.5.009
Publisher : The Korean Association for Translation Studies
Research Area : Humanities > Interpretation and Translation Studies
Received : November 8, 2020
Accepted : November 30, 2020
Published : December 31, 2020

Jieun Lee ¹, Hong SeoYen ²

¹이화여자대학교
²단국대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines an interpreter’s use of self-repairs as a coping strategy to address his lack of Russian proficiency. A discourse analysis was undertaken of a video recording (157-minutes in length) of a prosecutor’s interview of a suspect from a Russian-speaking background. Self-repairs, which refer to a speaker correcting their own utterances without external stimuli, occur when a speaker detects discrepancies with the communicative intention or a failure to meet the criteria of production (Schelgoff et al. 1977; Magnifico & Defrancq 2019). Adapting the self-repair categorizations proposed by Postma and Kolk (1993), LaSalle and Conture (1995) and Lee (2009), this study analyzed the interpreter’s self-repair attempts in interpreting and tallied the frequencies of different types of self-repair. The results showed that the untrained interpreter’s self-repairs were essential to the interpreter-mediated communication, particularly because of his limited interpreting competence. His self-repair attempts, which were numerous and frequent, do not reflect those displayed by professional interpreters’ and indeed are closer to those displayed by language learners. The analysis further revealed that the interpreter’s self-repairs differed depending on the directionality of his interpreting in terms of frequency and purposes. The findings also showed that despite numerous self-repairs, the communication problems that arose in the interview were not successfully resolved due to the interpreter’s lack of interpreting skills, including his low-level language proficiency. The findings emphasize the importance of engaging competent interpreters when interviewing suspects from non-Korean speaking backgrounds.

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legal interpreting, interpreting during criminal ivnestigation, self-repair, coping strategy, untrained interperter

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