Much ado about something remote: Stress and performance in remote interpreting

Interpreting

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 214-247

  Roziner, Ilan ^a   Shlesinger, Miriam ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ergonomics; European Parliament; Presence; Quality; Remote interpreting; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955369938     PISSN: 13846647     EISSN: 1569982X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/intp.12.2.05roz     Document Type: Article

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