Filtered meaning: appreciating linguistic skill, social position and subjectivity of interpreters in cross-language research
Filtered meaning: appreciating linguistic skill, social position and subjectivity of interpreters in cross-language research
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过滤意义：跨语言研究中欣赏口译员的语言技能、社会地位和主观性
DOI：
10.1177/1468794115569564
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Catrina A. Mackenzie
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作者：
Catrina A. Mackenzie
到达一个对当地语言知之甚少的国家时，研究人员面临着巨大的语言挑战。我们在国内的联系人可能会建议我们聘请潜在的口译员，但我们如何知道这些口译员是否能流利地说我们参与者的语言？当我们的口译员的社会地位和生活经历改变了我们试图分析的话语时，我们能否理解当地语言的流利程度？根据我在乌干达的人文地理学研究经验，本文旨在分享一些策略，以评估译员的语言技能，并了解他或她的社会地位和主体性。本文特别强调了口译方面的差异，并将这些差异与助理的社会地位和主观性联系起来，强调有必要承认口译可以过滤意义，并要求在跨语言研究中扩大批判性反思以涵盖口译员。
Arriving in a foreign country with little knowledge of local languages presents the researcher with significant linguistic challenges. Our in-country contacts may suggest potential interpreters for us to hire, but how do we know if these interpreters can fluently speak the languages of our participants? Can we, lacking fluency in local languages, understand when the social position and lived experiences of our interpreter modify the discourses we seek to analyse? Drawing from my human geography research experience in Uganda, this article aims to share strategies to assess the linguistic skills of the interpreter and to understand his or her social position and subjectivity. Uniquely, this paper highlights differences in interpretation and links these differences to the assistants’ social position and subjectivity, highlighting the need to acknowledge that meaning can be filtered by interpretation and requiring that critical reflection be broadened to encompass interpreters in cross-language research.