TY  - JOUR
TT  - Sports Interpreting and Favouritism: Manipulators or Scapegoats?
AU  - Bulut, Alev
PY  - 2016
DA  - April
DO  - 10.29000/rumelide.336533
JF  - RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi
JO  - RumeliDE
PB  - Yakup YILMAZ
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2148-7782
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
IS  - 6
KW  - Spor çevirmenliği
KW  - futbol
KW  - taraftarlık
KW  - ardıl çeviri
KW  - profesyonellik
N2  - Sportsis a field like politics in the sense that it has fans/followers to persuade inorder to go on winning (financially, too) which makes sports discourse a veryslippery ground open to favouritism even without interpreting. Wheninterpreting is involved the situation gets more complex and ideological and itis nearly always the interpreter who gets to be blamed when a conflict occurs.In Turkey, it has been very common to employ foreign managers for footballteams including the national team (basketball and voleyball teams, too, but ata much smaller scale). The theoretical framework of the work derives from thefunctional-pragmatic approaches and impartiality/objectivity issues inTranslation and Interpreting Studies as well as my earlier work on the sametopic (Bulut 2004, 2008, 2010, 2011). In this study, examples are given anddiscussed from the news coverages of press conferences of foreign footballmanagers and players in Turkey which involve conflict, the blame having beenput on the interpreter at the end of each. The examples display threecategories of the perception of favouritism (favouritist rendering favoured,who to favor and unfavoured interpreter) denoting at problems of decisionmaking and professionalism in consecutive sports interpreting as well asshedding light to the common issues of the interpreting process where theinterpreter is in a vulnerable position easier to be blamed as the intermediatingagent than the speaker/source.
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.336533
L1  - http://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/338406
ER  -