How can we know what really happens?: Interpreting as a Cognitive Process

Shlesinger, Miriam

doi:10.1075/btl.37.03shl

In:Tapping and Mapping the Processes of Translation and Interpreting: Outlooks on empirical research
Edited by Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit and Riitta Jääskeläinen
[Benjamins Translation Library 37] 2000
► pp. 3–16

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Interpreting as a Cognitive Process

How can we know what really happens?

Miriam Shlesinger

Published online: 24 November 2000

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.37.03shl

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