Translation of Subjective Modality in Russian-English Simultaneous Interpretations

The thesis explores subjective modality and ways to express various modal meanings in Russian and English in the context of simultaneous interpreting. The theoretical part includes two chapters. The first chapter deals with translation/interpretation taxonomy and outlines the main features of simultaneous interpreting. Works of Russian and foreign linguists on the subject are analyzed in detail. The second chapter stresses the difference between objective and subjective modality, focuses on description and classification of Russian and English language means expressing various modal meanings. The third chapter analyses the language means expressing modality. The analysis is based on the transcript of simultaneously interpreted press conference of V. Putin. As the result, the occurrence of various language means used by interpreters is revealed. Specific characteristics determining the use of these language means in the process of interpreting are described. The analysis has shown that interpreters’ choice of language means to convey modality can noticeably affect the representativeness of the target text. The thesis contains 68 pages, 26 tables and an appendix. The list of references includes 33 works.