Research emphasizing the communicative aspect of conference interpretation has led to preliminary conclusions that change the understanding of the interpreter’s role and redefines her job. This not only has implications for teaching interpretation, specifically for which aspects are emphasized during training, but also for teaching and learning in general. Focusing on the importance of structures and relationships beyond content alone encourages both discipline and flexibility, both in interpreting and more broadly in education. Two important contributions confirm the direction of this research: on the one hand, texts dealing with general semantics which focus on the evaluative capacity fundamental for human interaction; and on the other, the latest and most promising findings in neurosciences that throw open the doors for human development and its evolution. In brief, combining general semantics with dynamic cognitive sciences generates a flexible mind-frame and a constructive disciplined attitude which have proven to be useful both to train interpreters and to foster richer dialogues and healthier interaction in any context. Anyone who wants to work as a conference interpreter should incorporate these practices with their linguistic and cultural understanding.
Abstract
Research emphasizing the communicative aspect of conference interpretation has led to preliminary conclusions that change the understanding of the interpreter’s role and redefines her job. This not only has implications for teaching interpretation, specifically for which aspects are emphasized during training, but also for teaching and learning in general. Focusing on the importance of structures and relationships beyond content alone encourages both discipline and flexibility, both in interpreting and more broadly in education. Two important contributions confirm the direction of this research: on the one hand, texts dealing with general semantics which focus on the evaluative capacity fundamental for human interaction; and on the other, the latest and most promising findings in neurosciences that throw open the doors for human development and its evolution. In brief, combining general semantics with dynamic cognitive sciences generates a flexible mind-frame and a constructive disciplined attitude which have proven to be useful both to train interpreters and to foster richer dialogues and healthier interaction in any context. Anyone who wants to work as a conference interpreter should incorporate these practices with their linguistic and cultural understanding.
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