Book review
Paweł Korpal. Linguistic and Psychological Indicators of Stress in Simultaneous Interpreting
Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2017. 193 pp.

Reviewed by Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk
University of Silesia in Katowice
Publication history

Date received: 14 August 2020

Date accepted: 24 August 2020

Published online: 9 October 2020

Table of contents

The book under review is the amended and published version of Paweł Korpal’s PhD thesis, defended at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. It makes a significant contribution to Interpreting Studies and, considering its interdisciplinary character (i.e., valuable input particularly from psycholinguistics, occupational psychology and stress research), goes beyond the field. It also contains some important implications for interpreter training, emphasizing the detrimental effect that anxiety and stress in the classroom may exert even on the performance of students who have sufficiently mastered their working languages and acquired the cognitive skills necessary for simultaneous interpreting.

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