Cognitive workload in conference interpreting</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Cognitive workload in conference interpreting"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Cognitive,workload,in,conference,interpreting"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">11-08-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Cognitive workload in conference interpreting</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Geneva, Switzerland (ETI): One of the theoretical issues proponents of the IT (interpretive theory) approach and the IP (information processing) approach to simultaneous interpreting are sharply divided over (Setton 1999) is the importance of language-specific factors in SI. In other words, scholars working within the IP paradigm claim factors such as morpho-syntactic asymmetry between source and target language to have repercussions on the SI process as they increase cognitive workload. Conversely, advocates of the IT paradigm maintain that such factors are irrelevant provided sufficient linguistic proficiency in both languages involved. Unfortunately, most accounts defending or refuting this hypothesis are either anecdotal or limited corpus studies at best, but they are not supported by any sort of experimental research. The following projects were designed to collect tangible evidence in favor of either of these approaches. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.unige.ch/eti/interpr/research.html " target="blank">www.unige.ch/eti/interpr/research.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show