BEYOND THE MEETING ROOM – ON-SITE VS. REMOTE INTERPRETING: A SET OF EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES

Abstract

This paper presents the background of a doctoral investigation in interpreting studies and is mainly focused on a set of experiments carried out in on-site (OSI) and remote interpreting (RI) settings, involving two groups of interpreter trainees and one group of professional interpreters. The procedures adopted to evaluate both the performance of these subjects and the quality of the interpreting tasks in the two different environments revealed the absence of statistically significant differences in the two scenarios compared. This research is therefore also devoted to reflect upon the reluctance shown by professional interpreters towards RI, even though discrepancies between both distinct settings may not necessarily be perceived.