SIGHT INTERPRETATION: TO THE ISSUE OF KEY PROBLEMS FOR INTERPRETERS AND TRANSLATORS


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The paper presents the comparative analysis of cognitive aspects of sight interpretation in order to identify special translational skills required to perform this type of activity. The relevance of the study is caused by the fact that the sight interpretation is studied by Russian and foreign translatology linguists less than the other types of translation practice (interpreting and translating). The subject of the study is the identification and the description of skills peculiar for sight interpretation only, and unusual for translation and interpreting. The paper pays attention to the psychological activities when translating at sight and compares them with the psychological processes taking place when translating and interpreting. Besides that, the paper analyses the number of challenges the translators and interpreters unprepared to make sight interpretation meet. The author makes the conclusion that the sight interpretation requires special training and teaching of two groups of translational skills: reading and understanding original texts; text production in the language of translation. The paper analyses key difficulties the interpreters and translators meet while performing sight interpretation that can be eliminated with the help of training. The author makes the conclusion that the sight interpretation supposes the mastering of special skills different from that required to perform translation or interpretation. 

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Olga Aleksandrovna Krapivkina

Irkutsk National Research Technical University, Irkutsk

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Email: koa1504@mail.ru

PhD (Philology), assistant professor of Chair of Foreign Languages

Russian Federation

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