把关还是放行——论商务联络译员的礼貌意识

以22名职业译员和学生译员为被试对象,观察其在商务联络口译场合下对不礼貌与过度礼貌言语行为的处理。研究发现:（1）两组被试均在应对面子威胁行为时自觉承担了把关人的职责,积极运用各类应对策略维护双方面子。（2）学生译员在把关时缺乏清晰的导向性,关注点较小,调节力度较弱;职业译员以交际目标为导向,同时关注社会和文化语境,调节力度更强,手段更自由。研究将礼貌置于其发生的语境,深入剖析译员的双重把关角色,构建了跨语交际下动态的礼貌概念,同时进一步揭示了联络译员角色的复杂性。

Are They Gatekeepers or Not: an Investigation into Business Liaison Interpreters Politeness Consciousness

Through the observation of 22 professional and student interpreters ’ treatment of impolite and over-polite speech acts, this study probes into the politeness consciousness of business liaison interpreters. It reveals that: 1. When confronted with face-threatening acts in interpreter-mediated events, both groups of participants consciously shouldered the responsibility of gatekeeping and actively employed various coping strategies to maintain the faces of the interlocutors. 2. Student interpreters, in their lack of clear orientation, focused on the immediate social context and were more prepared to mediate at the lexical level; professional interpreters, in contrast, attached equal importance to the broader social and cultural contexts and used coping strategies (lexical and syntactic) more liberally and intentionally. By placing politeness in the context in which it occurs, this study conducts an in-depth analysis of the interpreters ’ role of dual gatekeeping. Its findings are expected to shed new lights on interpreting practice and pedagogy