ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to extend the boundary of Appraisal theory via an investigation of the ‘sound’ of language; that is, how the speaker’s prosodic emphasis is rendered by conference interpreters. Relevant concepts and methods are imported from phonetics and phonology. This chapter focuses on the target text (TT) renditions of the source text’s (ST) prosodic emphasis using paralinguistic and verbal data. The results revealed that the ST prosodic emphasis ‘gets across’ to a noticeable degree through different types of TT renditions, and there is evidence associated between the speaker’s prosodic implementation of emphasis and interpreters’ implementing ‘verbal-compensation’. The results point to a cross-modal rendition type that sheds new light on how the semiotic multi-modality of interpreting data could be treated as an integrated ensemble. The ideological factor is equally important in this chapter, and its effects are examined in the sound data in this chapter. The interdisciplinary methods and approaches used in this chapter serve to enrich the methodological inventory for the multimodal research avenues in translation and interpreting studies.
