Probing quality criteria in simultaneous interpreting: The role of silent pauses in fluency

Interpreting

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-43

  Macías, Macarena Pradas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Fluency; Quality in interpreting; Silent pauses; Subparameter; Vertical analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248699000     PISSN: 13846647     EISSN: 1569982X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/intp.8.1.03pra     Document Type: Article

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