ISHIZUKA Hiroyuki    Department   Hiroshima shudo University  The Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences    Position   Professor
Language	Japanese
Publication Date	2016/02
Type	Articles
Title	Mental representations as information units during simultaneous interpreting
Contribution Type	Single-Authored Publication
Journal	Studies in the Humanities and Sciences
Journal Type	Japan
Publisher	Hiroshima Shudo University
Volume, Issue, Pages	31-48頁
Number of pages	18
Details	This study analyses a recorded simultaneous interpreting performance to explore the status of mental representations constructed by a simultaneous interpreter, drawing on the model of conceptual complexes (the CC model) (e.g. Funayama 2007, Ishizuka 2012). A CC is a descriptive device of the hearer’s mental operations during the incremental process of discourse processing. As a hearer of the source speaker, the interpreter constructs CCs as non-linguistic representations. CCs are involved in two stages of the interpreting process: comprehension of the source text (ST) and production of the target text (TT). This study focuses on referential expressions in the TT that have no corresponding expressions in the ST. This type of translation in interpreting performances reveals that interpreting is not simply code switching from ST to TT, but a process that entails non-linguistic cognitive operations. Based on such clues, the role of CCs as information units is examined.