Pronoun Choice and Participant Roles in Interpreted Police Interviews with Romanian Nationals

在英国，公共服务口译员被指示在翻译时使用所谓的“第一人称”或直接口译模式：“我要问你一个问题”，而不是“（他们说）他们要问你一个问题”。然而，在实践中，三元互动的要求使得在任何时候都遵守这一规则几乎是不可能的。其中一个原因是，（被口译者）自己并不总是称呼对方，好像口译员不在场，但经常使用第三人称代词来指代对方。本研究旨在通过观察主要发言者和口译员对代词的选择来探讨这种情况的潜在原因，在警方调查询问的特殊环境中。本研究假设两个前提：（1）说话者对代词的选择反映了他们认为自己在会话中扮演的角色，以及他们认为其他参与者扮演的角色;（2）这些角色是在会话中不断产生的。我们已经知道口译员的存在会改变话轮转换系统（Russell 2002），并且会干扰面试官采用的刻意策略（Lai & Mulayim 2014）。正如Nakane（2009）所注意到的，警察面谈中的角色转换“可能会影响警察调查员和被面谈者之间互动的结果”（第2页）。本研究试图回答以下问题：1.主要参与者和口译员何时、为何以及如何转换代词？2.如果有的话，这对谈话有什么影响？3.这些转变能告诉我们什么关于口译员的角色？这项研究希望提供一些见解，可能会为口译员和与他们一起工作的警官的培训提供信息。这项研究的另一个可能的结果是一种方法，用于“净化”从采访中获得的数据，以便它可以构建一个翻译警察采访的数据库，这是出了名的难以获得。最终目标是对知识体系做出贡献，挑战当前的规范性解释规范，以便最终对其进行修订。建议的设计/方法数据收集的第一阶段将包括获得记录的警察采访，在英国，与罗马尼亚国民;为此目的，研究人员已经联系了苏格兰的警察部队。不过，在涉及口译员的情况下，也将寻求许可，以观察警察的做法。从采访官员和口译员获得的见解将被用来支持理论和解释的沟通行为中观察到的转录数据。因此，拟议的研究将是定性性质的，它将有一个强大的人种志的组成部分。它将广泛地适用于话语分析传统，更狭义地说，适用于法律语言学领域。将尽一切努力使数据得到适当的匿名化和安全存储。

Research aimsIn the UK, public service interpreters are instructed to use the so-called 'first person' or the direct mode of interpreting when translating: 'I'm going to ask you a question', not '(They say) they're going to ask you a question'. However, in practice the demands of a triadic interaction make adherence to this rule at all times virtually impossible. One of the reasons for this is that the primary speakers (the persons being interpreted) themselves do not always address each other, as if the interpreter was not there, but often use the 3rd person pronoun to refer to each other.This study aims to examine potential reasons why this might be the case, by looking at both the primary speakers' and the interpreters' choice of pronouns, in the particular environment of the investigative police interview. The study will assume two premises: * A speakers' pronoun choice reflects both what role(s) they see themselves occupying in the conversation, and what role(s) they ascribe to the other participants; and* These roles are constantly (co)produced during the interaction. We already know that the presence of the interpreter alters the turn-taking system (Russell 2002) and that they interfere with the deliberate strategies employed by the interviewers (Lai & Mulayim 2014). As Nakane (2009) notices, role shifts during a police interview "may affect the outcome of interactions between the police investigator and the interviewees" (p.2). The study will attempt to answer the following questions:1. When, why and how do primary participants and interpreters shift pronouns? 2. What effect, if any, does this have on the conversation? 3. And what can these shifts tell us about the role of the interpreter? The study hopes to provide insights that might inform training for both interpreters and the police officers who work with them. Another possible outcome of this research is a method for 'sanitising' the data obtained from the interviews, so that it may construct a database of interpreted police interviews, which are notoriously hard to get. The ultimate goal is a contribution to a body of knowledge which challenges current prescriptive interpreting norms, so that they may ultimately be revised. Proposed design/methodsThe first stage of data-gathering will consist of obtaining recorded police interviews, in the UK, with Romanian nationals; to this aim, the researcher has already contacted police forces in Scotland. However, permission will also be sought to observe police practices where interpreters are concerned. Insights gained from interviewing both officers and interpreters will be used to support theories and explanations of communicative behaviour observed in the transcripted data. Thus, the proposed study will be qualitative in nature and it will have a strong ethnographic component. It will fit broadly within a discourse analytical tradition, and more narrowly, in the area of forensic linguistics.Every effort will be made so that the data is appropriately anonymised and stored securely.