interpreting
English
Alternative forms
- interpretting (comparatively rare)
Noun
interpreting (countable and uncountable, plural interpretings)
- (countable) Synonym of interpretation (an act of interpreting or explaining what is obscure)
- 1984, Stephen A. Erickson, Human Presence: At the Boundaries of Meaning (page 86)
- To put these statements in the singular, of course, is to abstract — there is always a plurality of interpretings when interpretation takes place.
- 1984, Stephen A. Erickson, Human Presence: At the Boundaries of Meaning (page 86)
- (uncountable, linguistics, translation studies) Synonym of interpretation (the discipline or study of translating one spoken or signed language into another)
- 2003, Gunilla M. Anderman; Margaret Rogers, Translation Today: Trends and Perspectives, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, page 205:
- The scholarship supporting translation and interpreting education necessarily entails discussions of assessment and there has been some encouraging work in this area.
- 2013, Carmen Millán; Francesca Bartrina, The Routledge Handbook of Translation Studies, Routledge, →ISBN, page 66:
- Is there a theory of interpreting, or a set of distinct theories of interpreting?
- 2017, Alexander V. Kozin, Consecutive Interpreting: An Interdisciplinary Study, Springer, →ISBN, page 1:
- An orphan among its peers, consecutive interpreting appears to have a short life and little if any luster.
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Derived terms
- consecutive interpreting
- simultaneous interpreting
Verb
interpreting
- present participle of interpret