ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an investigation of the ideological shifts manifested textually by examining evaluative language in source texts and target texts with nuanced granularity. Drawing on van Dijk’s ideological square, this chapter leverages two Appraisal systems (Attitude and Graduation) as the linguistic apparatus to identify and interpret ideological shifts in view of the ‘us’-and-‘them’ discourse structure. The results reveal an overall positive ‘us’ and a negative ‘them’ pattern in terms of interpreters’ ideological positioning. It is demonstrated that the speakers’ discourse is ‘edited’ in a number of systemic ways during the simultaneous interpreting process when an interpreter’s ideology is in operation in real time. This chapter sheds some fresh light on the predicated relationship between interpreters’ ideologies and their cognitive operations. Albeit the evidence is limited and indirect, it provides some empirical ground for future studies, which could test the hypothesis of ‘responsive-ideology’ in controlled experiments.
