Michaela Albl-Mikasa is Professor of Interpreting Studies at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. She is currently a member of the Executive Council of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) and of the Board of the European Network of Public Service Interpreting (ENPSIT). She is principal investigator of the SNSF Sinergia project CLINT.

Elisabet Tiselius is Associate Professor of Interpreting Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden, where she teaches public service, conference and signed language interpreting. Tiselius is a member of AIIC, serving on its research committee, is accredited to the EU institutions and is a state-authorized public service interpreter. She is a board member of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST).

List of Contributors

Introduction

1. Fundamentals
   
   1. Historical developments in conference interpreting: An overview
   
   2. Modes of conference interpreting: simultaneous and consecutive
   3. Note-taking for consecutive conference interpreting
   
   4. Conference and community interpreting: commonalities and differences
2. Settings
   
   5. Diplomatic conference interpreting
   6. Conference interpreting at press conferences
   
   7. Media conference interpreting

8. Conference interpreting in the European Union Institutions

9. Conference interpreting at the United Nations

3. Regions

10. Conference interpreting in the United States11. Conference interpreting in Russia12. Conference interpreting in Japan
13. Conference interpreting in South Korea
14. Conference interpreting in Australia

15. Conference interpreting in China

16. Conference interpreting in India
17. Conference interpreting in Sub-Saharan Africa

18. Conference interpreting in Brazil

4. Professional issues
   
   19. Quality and norms in conference interpreting
   
   20. Testing for professional qualification in conference interpreting21. Status and profession(alization) of conference interpreters
   
   22. Ethics and codes of ethics in conference interpreting
5. Training and education
   23. Aptitude for conference interpreting24. Learning and teaching conference interpreting25. Theory and training in conference interpreting: initial explorations
6. Research perspectives: theoretical and empirical
   26. Working memory and cognitive processing in conference interpreting
   27. Strategies and capacity management in conference interpreting
   28. Conference interpreting and expertise
   29. Stress and emotion in conference interpreting
   30. Sex and gender in conference interpreting
   
   31. Discourse analysis in conference interpreting
   32. Corpus studies in conference interpreting
   33. Eye-tracking studies in conference interpreting
   34. Neuroimaging of simultaneous conference interpreters
7. Recent developments
   
   35. Distance conference interpreting36. Conference interpreting and new technologies
   37. Bridging the gap between conference interpreters and researchers with online media
   38. Sign language conference interpreting
   
   39. Conference interpreting and English as a lingua franca
   
   40. Mindfulness training for conference interpreters

Index