Contents

 

Introduction / 7

1. Multilingualism in the European Union / 15

1.1 Introduction / 15

1.2 Multilingualism: Blessing or curse? / 19

1.2.1 If not full multilingualism, then what? / 24

1.3 Translation and interpreting for the needs of the EU institutions / 26

1.3.1 Translation / 27

1.3.1.1 Constraints of EU translations / 31

1.3.1.2 Research on EU translation / 33

1.3.2 Interpreting / 35

 

2. Interpreting for the European Parliament / 43

2.1 The European Parliament as a source of naturalistic data / 43

2.2 Input for interpreting: Some characteristics of EP plenary discourse / 49

2.3 Research on EU interpreters / 59

2.4 Observational research on interpretations from the EP / 67

2.5 A summary of research findings and existing gaps / 78

 

3. Pragmatic background: Face, face-threatening acts and facework / 81

3.1 Beginnings: Goffman’s observations on the nature of human interactions / 81

3.2 Brown and Levinson’s theory of politeness / 86

3.3 Further scholarly interest in face and facework / 95

3.3.1 Theoretical considerations / 96

3.3.1.1 The Politeness Principle / 96

3.3.1.2 Impoliteness / 97

3.3.1.3 Rapport management / 103

3.3.1.4 The Cultural Face Model / 105

3.3.2 Empirical research / 107

3.3.2.1 Research methodologies / 107

3.3.2.2 Various settings and research areas / 109

3.3.2.2.1 Facework in parliamentary debates / 114

4. Facework in interpreter-mediated interactions / 127

4.1 Facework in liason interpreting / 129

4.1.1 Ad hoc interpreting as a point of departure / 129

4.1.2 Professional interpreting / 132

4.2 Facework in interpreting for the media / 139

4.3 Facework in conference interpreting / 140

4.4 Incidental evidence of facework in interpreting / 149

 

5. Empirical research: Facework in interpreting of Eurosceptic discourse / 159

5.1 United Kingdom Independence Party: A voice of dissent / 161

5.2 Of damp rags and grey mice: Nigel Farage’s tirade of 24 February 2010 / 167

5.3 Five years later: A hearty welcome to Donald Tusk / 185

5.4 Non-congratulations to Martin Schulz / 193

5.5 Godfrey Bloom: Too rough for UKIP / 199

5.6 Godfrey Bloom and the Chamber of absurdity, for which nothing is too stupid / 204

5.7 Preliminary conclusions / 209

5.8 Corpus / 212

5.9 Corpus analysis / 217

5.9.1 Personal reference / 217

5.9.1.1 Qualitative analysis / 220

5.9.1.2 Quantitative analysis / 228

5.9.2 Impoliteness / 230

5.9.2.1 Qualitative analysis / 233

5.9.2.2 Quantitative analysis / 241

5.10 Conclusions / 243

 

6. Mitigation: Explanatory hypotheses / 247

6.1 Mitigation as a norm? / 248

6.1.1 EU institutional discourse on interpreting / 251

6.1.2 Codification of norms outside the EU institutions / 254

6.1.3 Prescriptive literature / 255

6.2 Mitigation as censorship? / 259

6.3 Mitigation as intervention? / 266

6.4 Mitigation as equalising? / 273

 

7. Final conclusions: Possible avenues for future research / 279

Appendix: Extracts from the corpus containing source texts and their interpretations into Polish / 285

 

References / 297

Summary / 315

Streszczenie / 317

 

• Title: Face threats in interpreting: A pragmatic study of plenary debates in the European Parliament
• Author: Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk
• ISBN: 978-8-3226-3061-7, 9788322630617
• Date of issue: 2017-07-24
• Format: Ebook
• Item ID: e_0lqs
• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego