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Developing Methodological Expertise in Interpreting Studies

Publicado 20.10.2026

  • Franz Pöchhacker

Franz Pöchhacker
Universität Wien

Resumen

At the editors’ invitation, this reflective essay reviews my personal trajectory as a researcher, which is largely congruent and intertwined with some major initiatives and stages in the development of interpreting studies. My PhD research on simultaneous interpreting in the early 1990s serves as a starting point, highlighting the tension between general theories and empirical aspirations in the absence of methodological expertise. Pioneering efforts to promote research training by publication and by teaching are then described, with special reference to Daniel Gile and his role in the 1997 Aarhus Seminar. Further milestones include the founding of the journal Interpreting, whose subsequent volumes reflect major advances in research methods, and the publication of textbooks providing methodological guidance.

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Methodology, research design, research training, PhD research, paradigms

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