The aim of this study is to gauge the opinion of potential users of simultaneous interpretation (SI) services as to the impact of first impressions (FI) on their assessment of the quality of SI, and the grounds on which these impressions are based. The investigation had two parts. The first part aims at testing if the opinions formed by users about an interpreter during the first listen affect their final assessment of his/her work and if there are a number of specific criteria which to a greater or lesser extent help to form these opinions. The second part focuses on making a vertical analysis of FI by assessing the relative importance that the users give a priori to the different aspects that help to form these impressions within the field of interpreting. A high proportion of the sample population acknowledged that they had formed a first impression of the interpreters they had listened to and accepted that it had influenced their assessment. They also stated that nonverbal aspects were responsible for...

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第一印象重要吗？第一印象对同声传译质量评价的影响

本研究的目的是衡量同声传译 (SI) 服务的潜在用户对第一印象 (FI) 对他们对 SI 质量评估的影响的意见，以及这些印象所基于的理由。调查分为两部分。第一部分旨在测试用户在第一次聆听时对口译员形成的意见是否会影响他们对他/她的工作的最终评估，以及是否有许多特定标准或多或少有助于形成这些意见。第二部分侧重于通过评估用户对有助于在口译领域内形成这些印象的不同方面给予先验的相对重要性来对 FI 进行垂直分析。很大比例的样本人群承认，他们对所听过的口译员形成了第一印象，并承认这影响了他们的评估。他们还表示，非语言方面的原因是……