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Transcribing anyone?
Almost anything you would like to study about interpreting needs to be transcribed. Your are studying the spoken word and if you would like to classify, analyze, maybe do some statistical calcualtions...
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Language and thought, Sapir-Whorf and Everett (again)
There an interesting article in New York Times right know. It asks the question if lanugage affects the way you think. The author, Guy Deuthscher, takes his starting point in theSapir Whorf hypothesis...
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Turn taking and interpreting
Turn taking in discourse governs who has the right to talk, when you are allowed to talk and who decides whose turn it is. A turn in a discourse is the period when one speaker has the exclusive right...
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The interpreter’s role in the participation framework
Erving Goffman was an antropologist and sociologist who studied social interaction. Among other things, he proposed a model to analyse the distribution of responsibility between interlocutors. Cecilia...
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History of interpreting
Interpreting is ancient. Maybe as ancient as languages or mankind. Interestingly enough there are references to interpreters in many different historical sources. Like the representation of an...
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I will miss you Miriam!
Candle (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I just got one of the saddest messages. The wonderful professor Miriam Shlesinger of Bar-Ilan university has left us. Dear Miriam, I’m so extremely grateful that I have...
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