Publications

In the area of legal interpreting, the use of videoconference technology is now being widely considered as a potential solution for gaining cost-effective and timely access to qualified legal interpreters. The Stockholm programme, the Procedural Rights Roadmap and the Directive on the right to translation and interpreting in criminal proceedings make explicit reference to videoconferencing as a means of gaining access to remotely located ...

Research topicThis study sets out to explore linguistic interpreting strategies used by Flemish Sign Language (VGT) interpreters in a monologic simultaneous interpreting setting (Dutch - VGT). It aims to describe the strategic behaviour of interpreters as reflected in their linguistic actions. This focus on the linguistic decision-making process is combined with a desire to understand what motivates the behaviour. Hence the study does not only ...

In many experiments with simultaneous interpreting (SI), researchers use source speeches that are not only written and read aloud, but also pre-recorded, reducing their ecological validity. This study proposes a method to obtain speeches that are suited for experimental research, but with lower levels of input control. It examines the effect of written cues in a PowerPoint presentation with varying constituent orders and varying ratios of ...

This paper analyses a possible gendered manifestation of norms in interpreting. It focuses on the use of self-repair, a textual expression of the norm, by male and female interpreters. Two research questions are examined: (1) whether the extent to which self-repairs occur in interpreting is gendered and (2) whether gender influences the way in which the output is repaired using editing terms. Considering the literature on gender and ...

The growing popularity of Public Service Interpreting and Translation (PSIT) in different fields, such as healthcare or legal environments, has highlighted the need for interlingual and intercultural communication between public service providers and users who do not have any or sufficient command of the official language of the public authorities. Training is essential in those settings if we want to successfully achieve the appropriate ...

In the area of legal interpreting, the use of videoconference technology is now being widely considered as a potential solution for gaining cost-effective and timely access to qualified legal interpreters. The Stockholm programme, the Procedural Rights Roadmap and the Directive on the right to translation and interpreting in criminal proceedings make explicit reference to videoconferencing as a means of gaining access to remotely located ...

In interpreter-mediated communication, interpreters play an important part in enabling smooth turn-taking. However, the smoothness of the interaction does not solely depend on the interpretersU+2019 actions, but rather on successful collaboration between all participants involved. To achieve mutual understanding, participants coordinate their communication by combining verbal utterances and embodied backchannelling resources such as gaze, ...