The Routledge Handbook of Conference Interpreting

Michaela Albl-Mikasa is Professor of Interpreting Studies at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. She is currently a member of the Executive Council of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) and of the Board of the European Network of Public Service Interpreting (ENPSIT). She is principal investigator of the SNSF Sinergia project CLINT. Elisabet Tiselius is Associate Professor of Interpreting Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden, where she teaches public service, conference and signed language interpreting. Tiselius is a member of AIIC, serving on its research committee, is accredited to the EU institutions and is a state-authorized public service interpreter. She is a board member of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST).

List of Contributors

Introduction








Fundamentals

1. Historical developments in conference interpreting: An overview

2. Modes of conference interpreting: simultaneous and consecutive
3. Note-taking for consecutive conference interpreting

4. Conference and community interpreting: commonalities and differences



Settings

5. Diplomatic conference interpreting
6. Conference interpreting at press conferences

7. Media conference interpreting
8. Conference interpreting in the European Union Institutions

9. Conference interpreting at the United Nations




Regions
10. Conference interpreting in the United States11. Conference interpreting in Russia12. Conference interpreting in Japan
13. Conference interpreting in South Korea
14. Conference interpreting in Australia

15. Conference interpreting in China

16. Conference interpreting in India
17. Conference interpreting in Sub-Saharan Africa

18. Conference interpreting in Brazil





Professional issues

19. Quality and norms in conference interpreting

20. Testing for professional qualification in conference interpreting21. Status and profession(alization) of conference interpreters

22. Ethics and codes of ethics in conference interpreting



Training and education
23. Aptitude for conference interpreting24. Learning and teaching conference interpreting25. Theory and training in conference interpreting: initial explorations



Research perspectives: theoretical and empirical
26. Working memory and cognitive processing in conference interpreting
27. Strategies and capacity management in conference interpreting
28. Conference interpreting and expertise
29. Stress and emotion in conference interpreting
30. Sex and gender in conference interpreting

31. Discourse analysis in conference interpreting
32. Corpus studies in conference interpreting
33. Eye-tracking studies in conference interpreting
34. Neuroimaging of simultaneous conference interpreters



Recent developments

35. Distance conference interpreting36. Conference interpreting and new technologies
37. Bridging the gap between conference interpreters and researchers with online media
38. Sign language conference interpreting

39. Conference interpreting and English as a lingua franca

40. Mindfulness training for conference interpreters



Index