Review Technological Turn in Interpreting

Bin LIU

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This paper takes a bird-eye review of technology in interpreting studies (IS). The goal is to assess the advent of a “technological turn” by examining to what extent technology has transformed IS both within existing paradigms and expanded existing borders. The results show that although technology has permeated existing sub-disciplines in interpreting, their adoption and interaction between frameworks are not extensive enough. Therefore, although a technological turn is underway, it is far from complete.


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Interpreting technology; Technological turn; Paradigm shift

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