Book Review: Making way in corpus-based interpreting studies

Abstract

This book presents a collection of state-of-the-art work in corpus-based interpreting studies, highlighting international research on the properties of interpreted speech, based on naturalistic interpreting data. Interpreting research has long been hampered by the lack of naturalistic data that would allow researchers to make empirically valid generalizations about interpreting. The researchers who present their work here have played a pioneering role in the compilation of interpreting data and in the exploitation of that data. The collection focuses on both of these aspects, including a detailed overview of interpreting corpora, a collective paper on the way forward in corpus compilation and several studies on interpreted speech in diverse language pairs and interpreter-mediated settings, based on existing corpora. Overview of Corpus-based Interpreting Studies: an Introduction -- 1 Corpus-based Interpreting Studies (CIS): Past, Present and Future Developments of a (wired)Cottage Industry -- 2 Towards a Common Methodological Framework for Corpus-based Studies -- 3 Over-uh-load. The Occurrence of uh(m) between Elements of Compounds during Interpreting -- 4 Acquiring the Language of Interpreters -- 5 Interpretese vs. Non-native Language Use -- 6 Exploring Language Specificity as a Variable in Chinese-English Interpreting. A Corpus-based Investigation -- 7 Lost in Interpreting or ... maybe not Strings of Nouns as a Challenge for Simultaneous Interpreters Working from Polish into Italian -- 8 Studying Figurative Language in Simultaneous Interpreting: the IMITES (Interpretación de la Metáfora entre ITaliano y ESpañol) Corpus -- 9 Politics Interpreted on Screen. A Corpus-based Investigation on the Interpretation of Televised Political Discourse -- 10 "Interpreter-mediated Football Press Conferences: a Study on the Question/Answer Group" -- 11 Speech Patterns and Gender: Trends Emerging from EPIC.