Meaning and Meaning Processing in Interpretation and Interpreting Teaching
Meaning and Meaning Processing in Interpretation and Interpreting Teaching

Summary/Abstract: Starting with the cognitive approach to meaning the French School of interpretation headed by Seleskovitch and Lederer is based on, this paper studies meaning as a deverbalized product, related to the substantive memory, and discusses its processing in terms of conceptualizing. Since meaning processing/comprehension largely depends on the interpreter’s anticipation ability, the main anticipation cues, i.e. co-textual (intralingual), extralinguistic (situational) and context independent are identified and the “smart” shadow reading technique is described as a means of developing anticipation skills in interpreting

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