Un intruso en la cabina: los retos del anglicismo en la interpretación entre italiano y español

Managing a potentially treacherous phenomenon such as an English unmodified loanword is a challenge for any translator and it is even more so for simultaneous interpreters from Italian into Spanish who have to adjust their strategies according to the type of loanword, the context or the topic, among other things. In an attempt to study the strategies adopted by interpreters as well as the main interpreting problems, three (Italian>Spanish) sub-corpora of source and target texts were compared. Considering a set of variables such as the type of unmodified loanword detected in the source text, the context and the interpreter’s level of expertise, seven most frequently used interpreting strategies were identified (deletion, transposition without any modifications, generalization, reformulation, use of synonyms, adapted transposition and expansion), as well as some problems in interpreting these loanwords into Spanish (silent and filled pauses, vowel lengthenings, false starts, self-corrections, repercussions on the subsequent linguistic chunks such as pronunciation or cohesion, information loss and inadequate translation). These phenomena can reveal the complexity of dealing with an “outsider” – the unmodified English loanword – in the Spanish booth.