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

研究目的在英国，公共服务口译员被要求在翻译时使用所谓的“第一人称”或直接翻译模式：“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，三元交互的要求使得在任何时候都遵守这一规则实际上是不可能的。其中一个原因是，主要的说话者（被翻译的人）自己并不总是互相称呼，就好像口译员不在场一样，而是经常使用第三人称代词来指代彼此。本研究旨在通过观察主要说话人和口译员在调查警察采访的特定环境中对代词的选择，来研究这种情况的潜在原因。该研究将假设两个前提：说话者的代词选择既反映了他们认为自己在对话中扮演的角色，也反映了他们认为其他参与者扮演的角色；这些角色在交互过程中不断（共同）产生。我们已经知道，口译员的存在改变了轮流系统（Russell 2002），并且他们干扰了面试官采用的深思熟虑的策略（Lai & Mulayim 2014）。正如Nakane（2009）所注意到的，在警察采访过程中的角色转换“可能会影响警察调查员和受访者之间互动的结果”（第2页）。本研究将试图回答以下问题：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关于口译员角色的什么？这项研究希望能提供一些见解，为口译员和与他们一起工作的警察提供培训。这项研究的另一个可能的结果是一种“净化”从访谈中获得的数据的方法，这样它就可以构建一个翻译警察访谈的数据库，这是出了名的难以获得的。最终目标是对挑战当前说明性解释规范的知识体系做出贡献，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在联合王国获得警方对罗马尼亚国民的采访记录；为此，研究人员已经联系了苏格兰的警察部队。但是，在涉及口译人员的情况下，也将寻求许可以遵守警察的做法。从采访官员和口译人员中获得的见解将用于支持在转录数据中观察到的交流行为的理论和解释。因此，拟议的研究本质上将是定性的，它将具有很强的民族志成分。它将广泛地适用于话语分析传统，更狭义地适用于法律语言学领域。我们将尽一切努力确保数据的适当匿名化和安全存储。

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.