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Press conferences during major football tournaments are usually multilingual and interpreter-mediated. This paper draws on audio and video data from FOOTIE, a corpus of simultaneously interpreted football press conferences held during the UEFA EURO 2008 football championships. The aim is to analyse the questioning and answering strategies employed by the press and the interviewees, and then investigate to what extent such dynamics were replicated in the interpreted version.
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As it is not always possible to obtain another speaking turn, several colleagues may join forces and pursue the same line of questioning in subsequent turns.
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More details on interpreter recruitment, interpreting set-up, preparation and conditions of work can be found in Sandrelli (2012a, 2017).
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Corpus compilation and transcription conventions are described in detail in Sandrelli (2012a).
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A previous study on the speech events in this set of press conferences revealed that only 34 speaking turns out of 505 contained turns in a language other than Italian (Sandrelli 2012b).
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In the examples, speaking turns are numbered consecutively and speakers are indicated with a capital letter (C- coach, J—journalist, M—moderator; I—interpreter). A literal English gloss follows each turn in Italian (in italics) and is not numbered. Items of special relevance have been highlighted in bold; the interpreter’s expansions have been underlined. Transcription conventions are summarised at the end of the paper.
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Sandrelli, A. (2018). Interpreter-Mediated Football Press Conferences: A Study on the Questioning and Answering Strategies. In: Russo, M., Bendazzoli, C., Defrancq, B. (eds) Making Way in Corpus-based Interpreting Studies . New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6199-8_10
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