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Note-Taking From Speech

This document discusses note-taking techniques for consecutive interpreting. It covers the importance of note-taking skills, common areas where consecutive interpreting is used, and 7 principles for effective note-taking proposed by Jean-François Rozan. The document also discusses taking notes in an SVO diagonal structure and using symbols, and emphasizes reproducing the content based on one's notes in a fluent and engaging manner similar to the original speaker.

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Note-Taking From Speech

This document discusses note-taking techniques for consecutive interpreting. It covers the importance of note-taking skills, common areas where consecutive interpreting is used, and 7 principles for effective note-taking proposed by Jean-François Rozan. The document also discusses taking notes in an SVO diagonal structure and using symbols, and emphasizes reproducing the content based on one's notes in a fluent and engaging manner similar to the original speaker.

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Note-Taking From Speech

Lecture + Practice
Lecturer : Yulia Seredina
References

• Rozan, Jean-François. Note-taking in Consecutive Interpreting. Trans. Andrew


Gillies. Tertium. Poland, 2004.
• Gillies, Andrew.Note-Taking for Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course. St.
Jerome. 2005
• http://interpreters.free.fr
Plan

• Presentation “ Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting “


• Practice “Alternative Medicine”
• Pre-reading/Pre-listening activity/Questions
• Reading: What is Homeopathy?
• Listening : Alternative Medicine
• Post-listening activity-reproduce the text on the basis of your notes
Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting

• The importance of note-taking


• Where is it used? ( Areas of Application)
• 7 principles by J-F
• Symbols
Areas of application

• There are many areas of application of consecutive Interpreting compared


to simultaneous interpreting, since it is not restrained by the necessity of
equipment. Consecutive interpreting is used for different kinds of
interviews, parent-teacher conferences, attorney-client meetings, doctor’s
appointments, human resources trainings, accompanying visiting groups or
individuals to a location, as a conflict zone/disaster interpreting, and others.
Importance of developing note-taking
skills

• Speakers should not be interrupted all the time for short consecutive
interpretation.
• Sometimes the medical provider is giving a long explanation to the patient about
his/her condition and their plans for patient recovery. If interrupted they might lose
track of what they’re saying, etc.

• In court, many interpreters are now using digital recorders in the long
consecutive mode. However, recorders sometimes fail (technical problems, etc)
7 principles by J-F Rozan ( 1956)

• 1 Noting the idea and not the word


• 2 The rules of abbreviation
• 3 Links
• 4 Negation
• 5 Adding emphasis
• 6 Verticality
• 7 Shift
Andrew Gillies ( 2005)

• Macro Level
• Looking at the bigger picture
• Structure, framework, the way the speech is built up
• Micro-level
• Words, expressions
• Note-taking for consecutive interpreting: skeleton structure of the speech.
• Visual representation of your analysis of the source speech.
Note-taking

• Dissecting the speech. Analyzing its structure, progression


• Analyzing the communicative function of different parts of the speech
• Recognizing the main ideas and secondary ones
• Spotting the links between them
SVO Diagonally

• Easier to read back. Less writing on a page, so ideas stand out

• Visible structure. Visible at a glance, which is not possible if we note horizontally as we write normally.

• Eyes move from left to right. Like a typewriter, always coming back to the left at the end of each idea

• The beginning of each idea is noted furthest to the left, so we see it first
Symbols

• Clear and unambiguous


• Quick and simple to draw, more than 3 strokes of the pen is probably two slow.
• Prepared in advance. DON’T IMPROVISE MID SPEECH
• Consistent If E is energy, make sure it stays energy always and find yourself another symbol for
environment and economy.
• Organic starting point for many other symbols
• Must mean something to you Don’t blindly copy symbols you see if they don’t create associations for you
Reproduction/ Delivery

Skills
• Fluency
• Natural intonation
• Engaging your audience
• Using your notes correctly
“Read”might be misleadingInterpreters do not read their notes in the usual sense of the word.
• You’re constantly reading ahead of your notes
Reproduction/ Delivery

Speaker
• Good speakers vary volume
• Speed
• Tone of delivery
Interpreter
• Interpreters will want to do the same based on what the speaker said
• Memory
• Notes taken

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