Conference Interpreting Explained

Elisabet Tiselius is Associate Professor of Interpreting Studies at the Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies (TÖI) at Stockholm University, Sweden. Tiselius is an EU-accredited conference interpreter, and member of AIIC. She is the current president of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST). She is the co-editor, with Michaela Albl-Mikasa of the Routledge Handbook of Conference Interpreting (2022).

List of figures; List of boxes; About the author; About the book; Acknowledgements; Introduction to conference interpreting; 1: The flying bumblebee – foundations of conference interpreting; 2: Exercising your memory the conference interpreter way; 3: Practice – The core of conference interpreting; 4: Assessment, feedback and self-assessment; 5: Deconstructing speeches and putting them back together again; 6: Words, meaning, and doodles – why note-taking is good for you; 7: The power of body language, gaze, and intonation in interpreting; 8: Public speaking – the key to long consecutive (and simultaneous, too); 9: Simultaneous interpreting: chuchotage, speech to text, and in the booth; 10: Ethics, positionality, and discretionary power in conference interpreting; 11: Working language combinations, and the question of retour and relay; 12: Healthy working environment and self-care; 13: Entrepreneurship for interpreters; Index