Fred Van Besien
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fred Van Besien plays a role.
Articles
2009. Coping with extreme speech conditions in simultaneous interpreting. Interpreting 11:1, pp. 20–34
This study addresses the strategies used by simultaneous interpreters when confronted with syntactically complex sentences and with a high speed of delivery. The material consists of recordings of fifteen professional interpreters rendering two passages (one with a complex sentence structure, the… read more | Article
2005. Review of Lennon, Paul (2004) Allusions In The Press. An Applied Linguistic Study. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 147/148, pp. 87–88
The study reported in this book is concerned with “echoic” allusions in British national daily newspapers. Echoic allusions, such as “Gone with a very big wind”, “Here, many hands for once make heavy work” or “Bill shoots from the lip” remind the reader of a piece of language from another… read more | Review