New Orientations in Interpreting Studies and Interpreter Education

This book explores the most recent developments in interpreting studies and interpreter education, revisiting the epistemology of interpreting and proposing a model based on the multiple dimensions of interpreting and its distinctive features.

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).

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