1st Edition

New Orientations in Interpreting Studies and Interpreter Education Information Processing, Meaning Mediation and Language-pair Specificity

By Binhua Wang Copyright 2025
200 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book proposes a multidimensional model that revisits the epistemology of interpreting studies and the distinctive features of interpreting, and outlines three new research orientations. The first considers interpreting as immediate bilingual information processing, the second considers interpreting as meaning mediation in cross-lingual interpersonal communication and cross-sociocultural... Read more

1. Revisiting the Epistemology of Interpreting Studies  2. Interpreting as Immediate Bilingual Information Processing  3. Strategies and Norms of Information Processing in Interpreting  4. Interpreting as Meaning Mediation in Cross-Lingual Interpersonal Communication and Cross-Sociocultural Interaction  5. Language-pair Specificity in Interpreting  6. Re-Shaping Interpreter Education in the AI Era: From Training of Interpreting Skills to Development of Interpreter Competence

Biography

Binhua Wang is Chair/Professor of Interpreting and Translation Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. In addition to many publications in leading journals, he is the editor, with Jeremy Munday, of Advances in Discourse Analysis of Translation and Interpreting (Routledge).