Helle V. Dam

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List of John Benjamins publications in which Helle V. Dam is involved.

Journal

Interpreting

International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting

Edited by Franz Pöchhacker and Minhua Liu

ISSN 1384-6647 | E‑ISSN 1569‑982X

Title

Getting Started in Interpreting Research: Methodological reflections, personal accounts and advice for beginners

Edited by Daniel Gile, Helle V. Dam, Friedel Dubslaff, Bodil Martinsen and Anne Schjoldager

What sets this collection apart in the literature is its direct, personal style. Experienced supervisors as well as younger scholars speak to beginning researchers in interpreting, and more generally in Translation Studies. The contributors, who are very familiar with the difficulties beginners… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 33] 2001. xiv, 255 pp.

Articles (12) | Order by:

Dam, Helle V. and Karen Korning Zethsen 2026 Intralingual translation: Theory meets practice Intralingual Translation: Beyond language and text, Karas, Hilla and Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot (eds.), pp. 12–30 | Chapter

In the academic field of translation studies, intralingual translation has received much attention in recent years. Translation scholars have presented theoretical arguments for its inclusion in translation studies alongside interlingual translation, and empirical analyses have documented… read more

Dam, Helle V. 2021 From controversy to complexity: Replicating research and extending the evidence on language choice in note-taking for consecutive interpreting Interpreting 23:2, pp. 222–244 | Article

A replication of previous research, this study sets out to re-examine language choice in note-taking for consecutive conference interpreting – a topic that is widely believed to be subject to conflicting evidence. Extending the existing database considerably, the study draws on data from seven… read more

Dam, Helle V. and Karen Korning Zethsen 2014 Translators in international organizations: A special breed of high-status professionals? Danish EU translators as a case in point The Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies, Angelelli, Claudia V. (ed.), pp. 93–113 | Article

This article focuses on the occupational status of translators in international organizations. It reports on an empirical study on the job status of Danish staff translators working in the European Union as compared to that of Danish staff translators working in the national market. The study is… read more

Dam, Helle V. and Karen Korning Zethsen 2013 Conference interpreters — the stars of the translation profession? A study of the occupational status of Danish EU interpreters as compared to Danish EU translators Interpreting 15:2, pp. 229–259 | Article

This article reports on a study which is part of an ongoing project, investigating occupational status within the translation profession by focusing on professional translators and interpreters of different kinds and in different contexts. The study is specifically concerned with the job status of… read more

Dam, Helle V. and Karen Korning Zethsen 2012 Translators in international organizations: A special breed of high-status professionals? Danish EU translators as a case in point The Sociological Turn in Translation and Interpreting Studies, Angelelli, Claudia V. (ed.), pp. 212–233 | Article

Dam, Helle V. 2010 Consecutive interpreting Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 1, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 75–79 | Article

Dam, Helle V. and Karen Korning Zethsen 2010 Translator status: Helpers and opponents in the ongoing battle of an emerging profession Target 22:2, pp. 194–211 | Article

The present article is part of a larger project which investigates the occupational status of professional translators. The studies conducted so far within the framework of the project have been based on questionnaires and mainly been of a quantitative nature. The present article reports on a… read more

Dam, Helle V. 2007 What makes interpreters’ notes efficient? Features of (non-)efficiency in interpreters’ notes for consecutive Doubts and Directions in Translation Studies: Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Lisbon 2004, Gambier, Yves, Miriam Shlesinger † and Radegundis Stolze (eds.), pp. 183–198 | Chapter

This paper sets out to test three hypotheses aimed at identifying features of efficiency and non-efficiency in interpreters’ notes for consecutive – defined here as note-taking features that correlate with high target-text quality, on the one hand, and with poor target-text quality, on the other.… read more

Dam, Helle V. 2004 The interpreters’ notes: On the choice of form and language Claims, Changes and Challenges in Translation Studies: Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Copenhagen 2001, Hansen, Gyde, Kirsten Malmkjær and Daniel Gile (eds.), pp. 251–261 | Article

Dam, Helle V. 2004 Interpreters’ notes: On the choice of language Interpreting 6:1, pp. 3–17 | Article

This paper reports on a small-scale empirical study on note-taking in consecutive interpreting. As data, the study draws on the notes produced by four subjects while interpreting one Spanish source text consecutively into Danish, on the one hand, and one Danish source text into Spanish, on the… read more

Dam, Helle V. 2001 The manipulation of data: Reflections on data descriptions based on a product-oriented PhD on interpreting Getting Started in Interpreting Research: Methodological reflections, personal accounts and advice for beginners, Gile, Daniel, Helle V. Dam, Friedel Dubslaff, Bodil Martinsen and Anne Schjoldager (eds.), pp. 163–183 | Article

Gile, Daniel, Helle V. Dam and Anne Schjoldager 2001 Introduction Getting Started in Interpreting Research: Methodological reflections, personal accounts and advice for beginners, Gile, Daniel, Helle V. Dam, Friedel Dubslaff, Bodil Martinsen and Anne Schjoldager (eds.), pp. vii–xiv | Miscellaneous