Editors'' critical foreword
Foreword
Abbreviations and symbols
CHAPTER 1 The psycholinguistic approach to SI research
1.SI and the linguistic theory of translation
2.The methodological basis of a psycholinguistic approach to SI
3.The object of SI psycholinguistic research
CHAPTER 2 Speed, memory and simultaneity: Speech processing under unusual constraints
4.Simultaneity in SI
5.Time constraints
6.Externally controlled pace of activity
7.Recited texts vs.improvised discourse
CHAPTER 3 The semantic and pragmatic structure of discourse
8.Word meaning
9.Polysemy and synonymy in discourse
10.Componential analysis of meaning
11.Semantic agreement: A combinatory law of discourse
12.Semantic redundancy in discourse
13.Semantic redundancy in discourse: An example
CHapTER 4 Semantic structure and objective semantic redundancy
14.The concept of sense
15.Theme of communication, object of an utterance, and foregrounding
16.The semantic structure of discourse and its basic components
17.Semantic structure as the object and product of SI
CHAPTER 5 Communicative context and subjective redundancy
18.Implicit sense and inference
19.Linguistic inference
20.Cognitive inference
21.Situational inference
22.Pragmatic inference
23.The communicative situation of simultaneous interpretation
24.Discourse equivalent
25.Interdependence of situation and semantic structure in inferencing
26.Situational factors in comprehension: An illustration
CHAPTER 6 A probability anticipation model for SI
27.The principle of anticipatory reflection of reality
28.Message development probability anticipation
29.Multilevel redundancy and probability anticilSation
30.Cumulative dynamic analysis CDA and the range of probability anticipation
31.Towards the internal programme for the TL utterance
CHAPTER 7 Theme and compression
32.The thematic referential component of discourse in SI
33.Redundancy in Spanish public speaking
34.Types of speech compression in SI
CHAPTER 8 Rheme and information density
35.Perception by information density peaks
36.Loss of information due to a missed rheme
37.Strong rheme, weak rheme, chain of referents
38.The dominant evaluative rheme in a political discourse
39.Rendering the evaluative component in SI
CHAPTER 9 Syntax and communicative word order
40.The internal programme for the TL utterance: Whole or broken?
41.Word order and communicative syntax
42.Syntactic complexity, logical sequence and working memory
43.Short and extended predicates
CHAPTER 10 SI and Anokhin''s theory of activity
44.SI as a functional system
45.Probability anticipation as a multilevel mechanism
46.Self-monitoring or feedback
47.The efficiency of the SI communicative act and the SI invariant
CHAPTER 11 Anticipation and Sh An experiment
CHAPTER 12 Conclusion
Notes
References
TRANSCRIPTS
Appendix A
Buenos Aires corpus - UN, 1978, Experiment in Remote Interpreting
Appendix B
United Nations General Assembly sessions
Appendix C
Texts with two types of test items used as input in an SI probability anticipation experiment Chernov 1978Name index
Subject index