Publications

Publication details [#18497]

Pöchhacker, Franz. 2009. Conference interpreting: surveying the profession. In Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet and Miriam Shlesinger, eds. Profession, identity and status: translators and interpreters as an occupational group. Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS). The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association 4 (2): 172–186.

Publication type

Article in Special issue

Publication language

English

Keywords

conference interpreting | empirical research=experimental research | interpreter=interpreter's role

Journal DOI

10.1075/tis

Abstract

This paper offers a review of survey research among conference interpreters as a way of gaining knowledge about the profession, including the role perception of individual practitioners. A corpus of 40 survey research studies is examined with regard to such research design issues as sampling and question type, and categorized by topic. The conference interpreter’s role emerges as one of the dominant concerns in recent survey research, selected findings from which will be presented.

Source : Abstract in journal

Reprints

Pöchhacker, Franz. 2011. Conference interpreting: surveying the profession. In Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet and Miriam Shlesinger, eds. Identity and status in the translational professions (Benjamins Current Topics 32). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 49–64.