Translation Research and Interpreting Research. Tradition, Gaps and Synergies (original) (raw)

The volume, resulting form a one-day seminar held at Aston University in February 2002, is a collection of papers about the differences and the synergies between Translation Studies (TS) and Interpreting Studies (IS). The discussion investigates and compares the disciplines or subdisciplines (cfr Gile, p. 23) from different points of view: historical, (how they were born and developed), situational, ideological, cultural and sociological. Daniel Gile takes all these questions in the first and the main contribution of the book: he gives an overview of the history of research in translation and interpreting, he reviews the differences between translating and several forms of interpreting, he explores the causes of differences, also highlightening also their deep common basis.