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In:Pragmatics and Translation
Edited by Miriam A. Locher, Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 337] 2023
► pp. 51–71

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Chapter 3
Adding connectives to manage interpreted discourse

A corpus-based examination of Hungarian to English interpreting

 | Hungarian Accreditation Committee
Published online: 19 September 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.337.03got
Abstract
In recent years, corpus-based research has revealed that interpreted discourse contains a high frequency and variety of pragmatic items. However, it is less well known how the use of these items varies with the type of interpreting (i.e. relay, L2, or retour). This study examines this question through the frequency of connectives in Hungarian to English European Parliamentary interpreting. According to the results, connectives are significantly more frequent in interpreted than non-interpreted or comparable discourse, and also in relay interpreting. However, frequency and the kind of connectives used vary with the type of interpreting.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Connectives in corpus-based interpreting studies
  • 3.Data and methods
    • 3.1Corpus
    • 3.2Connectives
    • 3.3Research goals, questions and hypotheses
  • 4.Results and discussion
    • 4.1Frequency of connectives
    • 4.2Frequency of individual connective items
  • 5.Conclusions and outlook
  • References
  • Appendix
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