Abstract
The relationship between stress and performance and Remote Interpreting (RI)/Remote Simultaneous Interpreting (RSI) has been widely studied in academic, professional and corporate research during the past fifty years. Most of such research has attempted to correlate RI/RSI with changes in stress levels and performance, with little to no relevant results to suggest causality. While no significant clinical causality has been found between RI/RSI and stress, self-perceived stress during RI and especially RSI among practicing conference interpreters is consistently high and recent studies suggest a tendency on the increase. Similar results have been observed with performance, which has been and is consistently self-assessed as poorer during RI/RSI by practicing interpreters compared to in-person interpreting, how-ever no significant decrease in performance was observed by independent reviewers. Several scholars have suggested a correlation between such low self-perceived performance / high self-perceived stress and a lack of control which might result from being exposed to unknown factors during RI/RSI, prominently technological elements, the performance of which no longer re-lies on third parties but lies with the interpreters themselves. This paper is centered on the same hypothesis and suggests a proposal for action that interpreters can undertake to help regain control and thus improve their attitude toward RI/RSI.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.triton-1.8
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Translation and Interpreting Technology Online Conference
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Held Online
- Editors:
- Ruslan Mitkov, Vilelmini Sosoni, Julie Christine Giguère, Elena Murgolo, Elizabeth Deysel
- Venue:
- TRITON
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- INCOMA Ltd.
- Note:
- Pages:
- 68–75
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.triton-1.8
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Dora Murgu. 2021. Approaching Stress and Performance in RSI: Proposal for Action to Take Back Control. In Proceedings of the Translation and Interpreting Technology Online Conference, pages 68–75, Held Online. INCOMA Ltd..
- Cite (Informal):
- Approaching Stress and Performance in RSI: Proposal for Action to Take Back Control (Murgu, TRITON 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2021.triton-1.8.pdf