This is the first book to deliver a comprehensive guide to research methods in all types of interpreting. It brings together the expertise of two world-recognized scholars in spoken and signed language interpreting to cover the full scope of the discipline. It features questions, prompts and exercises throughout to highlight key concepts, provoke thought and encourage reader interaction. It deals fully with research in both conference and community interpreting, offering a variety of perspectives on both. Core areas such as reading and analyzing research literature, practical issues in research and producing research reports are all covered. This book is an indispensable tool for students and researchers of Interpreting as well as professionals and interpreter trainers.
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Chapter 1: What is research and why do we do it? Chapter 2: Critical reading and writing Chapter 3: Questionnaires in Interpreting research Chapter 4: Ethnographic research on interpreting Chapter 5: Discourse analysis in Interpreting research Chapter 6: Experimental methods in interpreting research Chapter 7: Research on interpreting education and assessment Chapter 8: Conducting and disseminating interpreting research References Index
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As a practitioner, researcher and educator in the field of interpreting for over two decades, I would recommend this book as an outstanding resource to anyone involved in interpreting or linguistics research.
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A groundbreaking guide to research methods in interpreting, full of questions and examples.
Features questions, worked examples and suggested activities in each chapter.
Research Methods in Linguistics is a series from Bloomsbury providing introductions to the quantitative and qualitative research methods needed by undergraduate and postgraduate students. The centre of the series is Research Methods in Linguistics edited by Lia Litosseliti, which provides a comprehensive overview of all the research methods needed by linguistics students. Each book in the series takes one of the research methods described in the general introduction and expands upon this in a book length study.
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ISBN
9781441147707
Publisert
2013-12-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic USA
Vekt
576 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
288

Biographical note

Sandra Hale is Professor of Interpreting & Translation and Chair of the Research Committee at the School of International Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Jemina Napier is Professor and Chair of Intercultural Communication at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.