Coordinating Participation in Dialogue Interpreting

Dialogue interpreting, which takes place in institutional settings such as legal proceedings, healthcare contexts, work meetings or media talk, has attracted increasing attention in translation, language and communication studies. Drawing on transcribed sequences of authentic talk, this volume raises questions about aspects of interpreting that have been taken for granted, challenging preconceived notions about differences between professional and non-professional interpreting and pointing in new directions for future research. Collecting contributions from major scholars in the field of dialogue interpreting and interaction studies, the volume offers new insights into the relationship between interpreting and mediating. It addresses a wide readership, including students and scholars in translation and interpreting studies, mediation and negotiation studies, linguistics, sociology, communication studies, conversation analysis, discourse analysis.

Chen Zeyuan, Zhejiang University, in Discourse Studies, 16.3.2014:
All these distinctive perspectives and novel avenues supply the readership with fresh food for thought on the hotly debated issue of coordination and its interfaces with mediation and participation, and with nuanced standpoints for a broader and finer scenery of the highly intricate landscape of interpreter-mediated exchanges, of the socio-cultural intricacies underlying them and of the influence of the interpreters’ coordinating and mediating functions. All in all, and not merely to the wide audience in interpreting/translation and interaction studies, this volume will be beneficial to faculty and students in communication studies, conversation analysis, discourse analysis, anthropology and sociology, and to non-academic readers who are keen to understand norms and practices of interactive discourses in cross-cultural and/or cross-linguistic communication.