Research Methods in Interpreting

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.

• Chapter 1: What is research and why do we do it?Chapter 2: Critical reading and writingChapter 3: Questionnaires in Interpreting researchChapter 4: Ethnographic research on interpretingChapter 5: Discourse analysis in Interpreting researchChapter 6: Experimental methods in interpreting researchChapter 7: Research on interpreting education and assessmentChapter 8: Conducting and disseminating interpreting researchReferencesIndex

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.