CONFERENCE INTERPRETING: CURRENT TRENDS IN RESEARCH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Neurolinguistic Research in Simultaneous Interpretation -- 1. How does a neurolinguist see the work of interpreting? -- 2. How can neurolinguistic research shed light on interpretation? -- 3. What does a neurolinguist expect interpreters and interpretation to bring to research? -- 4. The significance of neurolinguistic studies for interpretation -- 5. Future developments in interdisciplinary research -- Understanding for Interpreting, Interpreting for Understanding -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Interpretation as categorization -- 3. Research on interpreting: some remarks -- 4. Task analysis : one method, one model -- 5. Ergonomic analysis of the interpreting task -- 6. Conclusion -- Note -- Interpreting as Communication -- 1. Perspectives on language, communication and human action -- 2. A dialogical approach to interpreting -- 3. A concrete example -- 4. Interpreting: Products, processes and practices -- 5. A unified theory of interpreting? -- 6. Interpreting as decontextualizing practices -- 8. Conclusion -- NOTES -- Interpretation Research Policy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contributions by panelists -- 3. Concluding remarks -- The Interaction Between Research and Training -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Conference interpreting: the background to research and training -- 3. Research and training today: two separate worlds? -- 4. Training the interpreter: Note-taking strategies. -- 5. Training the interpreter: text selection for consecutive interpreting -- 6. The interaction between research and the profession: Training -- 7. Research and training: A conclusion? -- NOTES -- Methodology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Individual presentations -- 3. Discussion -- 4. Conclusions -- Quality in Simultaneous Interpreting.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Workshop -- 3. Conclusion -- Skill Components in Simultaneous Interpreting -- 1. Introduction -- 2. How research in bilingualism relates to issues in interpreting -- 3. Memory -- 4. Conclusions -- Editors'notes -- Intercultural Communication, Negotiation, and Interpreting -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What is Culture? -- 3. How Do Different Cultures Affect Communication? -- 4. Lexical Difficulties Faced by Broadcast Interpreters in Japan -- 5. Proto-typology of Intercultural Events with Interpreting -- 6. Intercultural Noise and Cultural Mediation -- 7. What Roles Should Interpreters Play in Intercultural Communication? -- 8. The Interpreter in the Business Environment -- 9. Should the Interpreter be a Cultural Mediator? -- 10. Intercultural Meetings as Real-Life Sessions -- 11. Conclusion - M. Kondo -- Linguistics, Discourse Analysis and Interpretation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Reasoning in Interpreting - Maria Sidiropoulou, University of Athens -- 3. Discourse Analysis and Dialogue Interpreting - Helen Tebble, Deakin University, Melbourne -- 4. Cohesion in Political Speeches: Implications for Simultaneous Interpretation - Sandra Gallina, EU Interpreter, Brussels -- 5. Discourse Analysis and Interpreting - Anna-Riitta Vuorikoski, University of Tampere -- 6. Linguistics and interpreting - Christopher Taylor, University of Trieste -- 7. Theme as the interpreter's path indicator through the unfolding text -Carol Taylor Torsello, University of Trieste -- 8. Conclusion -- On Media and Court Interpreting -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Film interpreting: challenges and constraints of a semiotic practice -- 3. Broadcast interpreting in Japan. Some theoretical and practical aspects -- 4. Quality of media interpreting - a case study. -- 5. Court Interpreting. Interlingual, intercultural and intersocial communication. Plans for a project.

6. Interpreting between the Slovene and Italian languages in Italian Courts of Law. -- 7. The Right to Lie: On Interpreter-Mediated Police Interrogations. -- 8. Questions and Answers -- 9. Conclusion -- Postscript: After Turku -- REFERENCES -- Index of authors -- List of participants -- The series Benjamins Translation Library.