Interpreting as a Discourse Process

This is a useful text for interpreters and interpreter trainers alike, and it would be excellent required reading in graduate classes in interpreting (both practice and theory) as an introduction to the importance and relevance of discourse approaches to the field.

• 1. Overview ; 2. Discourse and Interpreting ; 3. Analyzing Interpreted Encounters ; 4. The Meeting and the Participants ; 5. Turn Exchanges in an Interpreted Professor-Student Conference ; 6. Role Performance in a Discourse Process ; 7. Interpreting as a Discourse Process ; Bibliography ; Index