Gestural portray of the public service interpreter: strategies of coping with source messages’ nonverbal cues
Résumé
While a growing body of researchers investigate gesture-speech correlations in language acquisition or second language teaching, few show interest in examining multimodality of interpreter-mediated interactions. My research goal is to create an authentic corpus of community interpreting events in public service settings, essential for answering the following question: what strategies do consecutive interpreters apply in order to render the nonverbal cues of the source messages?