this paper is mainly intended to explore the two practices of interpreting and translating so as to spot any possible differences between them. it should be noted, however, that the focal point of the present study is interpreting and consecutive interpreting in particular which seems to create a good many problems for novice interpreters as well as interpreting trainees. to achieve the objecti...

a close study of the conduct of a translator or an interpreter indicates that there are a large number of factors which can play a significant role in their success or failure in their profession. the present paper is intended to probe into a number of these factors which appear to have a rather more important role in the profession of interpreters. it is accepted though, by the majority of the...

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 is generally recognized as a particularly demanding language processing task for the cognitive system. Dependency distance, the linear distance between two syntactically related words in a sentence, is an index of sentence complexity and is also able to reflect the cognitive constraints during various tasks. In the current research, we examine the difference in dependency distance ...