A proposal for an assessment of voice quality in TV broadcast simultaneous interpreting through a gestaltic approach: theoretical paradigm for a new questionnaire

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Published: Feb 14, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2016.ne3.10
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survey, Gestalt, assessment, quality, interpretation

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Gregorio De Gregoris
Università di Trieste

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After a literature review of questionnaire-based surveys on quality evaluation (both expectations or ideal preferences and assessment or judgment after a real experience) of simultaneous interpreting (De Gregoris 2014), Albano Leoni’s model of speech perception (Il volto fonico delle parole, 2009), Chion’s proposal for audio-vision perception (L’Audio-vision, 1994) and Fónagy’s research on live speech (La vive voix, 1983) were studied in order to understand how to elicit an assessment of voice quality in television broadcast simultaneous interpreting from a gestaltic point of view.

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De Gregoris, G. (2018). A proposal for an assessment of voice quality in TV broadcast simultaneous interpreting through a gestaltic approach: theoretical paradigm for a new questionnaire. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, 273–306. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2016.ne3.10
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Author Biography

Gregorio De Gregoris, Università di Trieste

Gregorio de Gregoris has an MA degree in Translation and Interpretation from the University of Bologna, where he attended the Conference Interpreting study program (Italian, Spanish and English) and wrote his final degree dissertation on “The Body and The Voice in Orality”. From 2003 to 2006, he participated in the activities of the Center of Theatre Studies of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Translation, Languages and Cultures (SITLeC) of the University of Bologna. Since 2009 he is a free-lance translator. In January 2012 he enrolled in the PhD program in Interpreting and Translation Studies at the University of Trieste.

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