Table Of ContentPALGRAVE STUDIES IN TRANSLATING
AND INTERPRETING
SERIES EDITOR: MARGARET ROGERS
CONSECUTIVE INTERPRETING
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY
ALEXANDER V. KOZIN
Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
Series editor
Margaret Rogers
Department of Languages and Translation
University of Surrey
Guildford, United Kingdom
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Alexander V. Kozin
Consecutive
Interpreting
An Interdisciplinary Study
Alexander V. Kozin
Centre for Literature and Philosophy
University of Sussex
Falmer, UK
Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
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To Tanja
Acknowledgments
It is often difficult not to begin your acknowledgments with the disclaimer
about having to limit them to only a few key contributors, although any
academic monograph would inevitably involve many insightful, detailed,
and helpful comments from a variety of people, and many of them
deserve full-hearted gratitude. This is the case here as well; yet, there is
only one person whom I would like to mention because she has seen
this project from the beginning to end and invested in it an enormous
amount of time, energy, and patience: Tanja Staehler. She was there at
the time when the project just began to bud and she stayed with it, help-
ing me organize and direct its growth. At the time when other priorities
seemed to demand exclusive and what seemed to be permanent atten-
tion, she still encouraged me to bring the book to fruition. For all prac-
tical purposes, she succeeded, and now I am incredibly grateful for her
persistence and vision. A classical German phenomenologist by training,
she was indispensable for the intricacies of bringing phenomenology and
communication studies together. For most issues phenomenological, I
relied on her expert advice and philosophical erudition. I also would like
to extend many thanks to my mother, who was relentless in reminding
me of my writing responsibilities, and I deeply bow to a kind friend, Igor
Kluykanov, who has never failed to provide me with academic opportu-
nities and personal support.
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Contents
1 Consecutive Interpreting and Its Many Facets 1
2 C onsecutive Interpreting: From Language to
Communication 37
3 E mpirical Phenomenology for the Study of Consecutive
Interpreting 67
4 F rom Consecutive Interpreting to ‘Translation-in-Talk’ 107
5 F rom ‘Translation-in-Talk’ to ‘Translation-in-Interaction’ 141
6 T he Generative Aspect of ‘Translation-in-Interaction’ 227
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7 Postscript 259
Bibliography 271
Index 285
1
Consecutive Interpreting and Its Many
Facets
The subject of this book is consecutive interpreting. An orphan among its
translation peers, consecutive interpreting appears to have a short life and
little if any luster. It also evokes little wonder: standing close to the every-
day and its dweller, consecutive interpreting invites us to take for granted
both its existence and its meaning. In comparison to written translation
and other types of interpreting, consecutive interpreting also spawns
limited academic interest, producing exclusive empirical accounts which
center on the interpreter’s performance and its indicators or, when tackled
in abstraction, accuracy of linguistic reproduction and cross- comparisons
of linguistic outcomes. It is extremely rare that the phenomenon itself
would be isolated for academic scrutiny, especially so when it comes to
a philosophical inquiry. This book seeks to redress this state of affairs
by offering an interdisciplinary respecification of the phenomenon. The
term ‘respecification’ points to the work of hermeneutic phenomenology,
which seeks to recover the authentic sense of a phenomenon, its original
identity, including the name that would be proper to the new identity,
its constitutive specifics as well as its aesthetics and the ethical potential.1
Currently, consecutive interpreting appears under many guises, including
such aliases as ‘oral,’ ‘liaison,’ ‘dialogue,’ ‘community,’ or ‘interlingual.’ In
this book, I have chosen to present the subject of this investigation under
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