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The Interpreter's Role in Communication and Its Explicit Manifestations
Vávrová, Iva ; Mraček, David (advisor) ; Čeňková, Ivana (referee)
This master's thesis studies explicit manifestations of the interpreter's role in consecutive interpreting - specifically in interpreted debates after films at the One World film festival. Consecutive dialogue interpreting in front of an audience is an interesting genre of interpreting, which is fairly common in the Czech Republic, but rather underrepresented in interpreting research. Its unique features are especially salient in case of interpreting between English and Czech, as this means a large part of the audience is then likely to have some level of comprehension in both of these languages. The One World festival also often employs young interpreters - students or graduates of Translation Studies at Charles University - and serves as one of their first work experiences. The theoretical part of the thesis provides an overview of existing research in the field of dialogue interpreting and film festival interpreting. It also presents the theoretical framework used to analyse the manifestations of the interpreter's role in authentic interactions. The framework divides these manifestations into several layers of analysis - role as an activity, facework, and norm orientation in language management. It also employs the tools and terminology used by conversation analysis. The empirical part is then...

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