This chapter presents the results of an ethnographic study of non-professional church interpreters, exploring how they regulate their behaviour in line with their perceived role in religious settings. The Volunteer Interpreters in Religious Settings (VIRS) project combines observational data (field… read more
This article reports the results of a mixed-method investigation of high-level discourse processes in simultaneous interpreting. The research analyses the effect of six variables indexing different inferential, shifting and integrative processes on the performance of expert and novice interpreters… read more
This article argues for the need to integrate self-regulatory processes in models of adaptive interpreting expertise. It presents the results of an analysis of self-regulatory competence of experts and novice interpreters, using data from retrospective studies, interviews, and performance analysis. read more
Processing models of simultaneous interpreting (SI) have predicted that the linguistic complexity of the source-language text will adversely affect performance quality due to the increased storage and processing demands imposed by linguistically complicated constructions on a limited-capacity… read more
The paper presents an experimental investigation of expert discourse processing during simultaneous interpreting (SI) and critically examines how rigour was achieved at several stages of the research process: sampling, standardizing the SI task, and data management. Between-method triangulation is… read more