none 10.1075/btl.57 John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 66131347 1419243 1419183 202507021815000028 10.1075 2025-07-02T16:14:17Z 2013-12-16T21:56:30Z 74 0929-7316 10.1075/btl https://benjamins.com/ catalog/btl Ghelly V. Chernov Robin Setton Adelina Hild A probability-prediction model Until now, Ghelly Chernov’s work on the theory of simultaneous interpretation (SI) was mostly accessible only to a Russian-speaking readership. Finally, Chernov’s major work, originally published in Russia in 1987 under the title Основы Синхронного Перевода (Introduction to Simultaneous Interpretation) and widely considered a classic in interpretation theory, is now available in English as well. Adopting a psycholinguistic approach to professional SI, Chernov defines it as a task performed in a single pass concurrently with the source language speech, under extreme perception and production conditions in which only a limited amount of information can be processed at any given time. Being both a researcher and a practitioner, Chernov drew from a rich interpreting corpus to create the first comprehensive model of simultaneous interpretation. His model draws on semantics, pragmatics, Russian Activity Theory and the SI communicative situation to formulate the principles of objective and subjective redundancy and identify probability prediction as the enabling mechanism of SI. Edited with notes and a critical foreword by two active SI researchers, Robin Setton and Adelina Hild, this book will be useful to practicing interpreters in providing a theoretical basis for appreciating the syntactic and other devices that can be used by both students and experienced interpreters in fine-tuning their performance in the booth. 57 12 23 2004 10 21 2008 9789027216632 9781588115836 9789027294982 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/btl.57 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027294982 https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027294982.pdf https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/btl.57/html