Interpreting in legal contexts: Consecutive and simultaneous interpretation

Interpreting Unit Segmentation of Conversational Speech in Simultaneous Interpretation Corpus

The speech-to-speech translation system is becoming an important research topic with the progress of the speech and language processing technology. Considering efficiency and the smoothness of the cross-lingual conversation, the simultaneity of the translation processing has a great influence on the performance of the system. This paper describes interpreting unit segmentation of conversational...

Text condensation in consecutive interpreting

On April 10th 1996 I defended a Ph.D. dissertation on the above topic at the Aarhus School of Business, Faculty of Modern Languages (Dam 1995). The following is a presentation of the main aspects of the dissertation. As opposed to the bulk of previous research on interpreting, which has mainly been dedicated to general theory formation, the main purpose of the present dissertation is to provide...

Interpreting Legal Constructivism

Abortion in legal, social, and healthcare contexts

Worldwide, abortion is one of the commonest gynaecological procedures (Sedgh et al., 2012). The common occurrence of abortion around the globe, however, belies considerable diversity in the social, political, and ethical meanings of terminating a pregnancy, as well as the practices surrounding abortion. All of these vary from locale to locale, from one historical time to another, and among soci...

Interpreting ambiguous social cues in unpredictable contexts.

Unpredictable environments can be anxiety-provoking and elicit exaggerated emotional responses to aversive stimuli. Even neutral stimuli, when presented in an unpredictable fashion, prime anxiety-like behavior and elicit heightened amygdala activity. The amygdala plays a key role in initiating responses to biologically relevant information, such as facial expressions of emotion. While some expr...