Conference Interpreting: Current trends in research. Proceedings of the International Conference on Interpreting: What do we know and how?: 23 (Benjamins Translation Library) - Hardcover

Name: Conference Interpreting: Current trends in research. Proceedings of the International Conference on Interpreting: What do we know and how?: 23 (Benjamins Translation Library)
ISBN: 9789027216267

9789027216267: Conference Interpreting: Current trends in research. Proceedings of the International Conference on Interpreting: What do we know and how?: 23 (Benjamins Translation Library)

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ISBN 10: 9027216266 ISBN 13: 9789027216267

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1997

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'Conference Interpreting: What do we know and how?' is the title of a round-table conference (Turku 1994) organised to assess the state of the art in conference interpreting research. The result is collected in this volume with fully coordinated reports on the round tables. The book presents an exciting coverage of the field, touching on methodology, communication, discourse, culture, neurolinguistic and cognitive aspects, quality assessment, training and developing skills.

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The volume is a heartening and enlightening publication showing tendencies in interpretation research of the 1980s and 1990s and should be part of the library of any person who wants to investigate one of the most complex and baffling human activities. -- Prof. Andrezej Kopczynski, University of Warsaw

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This volume on current trends in conference interpreting covers such topics as: neurolinguistic aspects in simultaneous interpretation; interpreting as communication; the interaction between research and training; and linguistics, discourse analysis and interpretation.

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