Book review
Sylvie Lambert & Barbara Moser-Mercer, eds. Bridging the Gap: Empirical Research in Simultaneous Interpretation.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1994. 362 pp. ISBN 90 272 2144 8 Hfl. 130. (Benjamins Translation Library, 3).

Reviewed by Franz Pöchhacker
Vienna
Table of contents

The book under review is a première in several ways: it is the first collective volume devoted exclusively to (empirical) research on simultaneous interpreting (henceforth: SI) without being derived from a conference or some such event; it is also the first volume on interpreting in Benjamins' BTL series of publications in Translation Studies, and it is the first work edited by Sylvie Lambert, a cognitive psychologist turned interpreter trainer based at the University of Ottawa.

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