Using European Parliament data in translation and interpreting research: An introduction

For the most part, research on spoken and intermodal mediated discourse at the European Parliament plenaries has been scattered and no single volume has attempted to capture the complexity of language mediation in the two modes in this very specific context. In this volume we focus on quantitative and qualitative spoken and intermodal mediated discourse looking either solely at interpreting at the EP plenaries, or at both interpreting and translation, but never at written translation alone. This ties in with the specific spoken/intermodal nature of the plenaries at the EP, where speeches are first delivered and interpreted, and are only later transcribed and (until a few years ago) translated.