Jonathan Downie
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jonathan Downie is involved.
2023 Chapter 11. Where is it all going? Technology, economic pressures and the future of interpreting Interpreting Technologies – Current and Future Trends, Corpas Pastor, Gloria and Bart Defrancq (eds.), pp. 277–301 | Chapter
Not since the advent of simultaneous interpreting last century has interpreting faced such seismic technological shifts. From the growth of remote interpreting to the seemingly miraculous development of automated speech translation, high-quality human interpreters seem to be threatened with… read more
2023 Research Ethics and Church interpreting InContext 3:2, pp. 139–164 | Article
This article applies recent discussions of ethical aspects of Interpreting Studies to research on church interpreting. Lessons from this case study are then applied to field research on interpreting more broadly, with an emphasis on the specific ethical and methodological issues that arise when… read more
2023 A comparative interpreting studies view of interpreting in religious contexts Translation and Interpreting Studies 18:3, pp. 448–470 | Article
This article applies Comparative Interpreting Studies to research on interpreting in religious contexts and the relevance of this literature to interpreting studies more broadly. Comparative Interpreting Studies is an approach that looks to plot the commonalities of all interpreting practice. It… read more
2021 Interpreting is interpreting: Why we need to leave behind interpreting settings to discover Comparative Interpreting Studies Translation and Interpreting Studies 16:3, pp. 325–346 | Article
This article argues that the use of interpreting settings as theoretical categories is no longer empirically sound. Instead, research should focus on the commonalities of all interpreting practice. This move is viewed as an enabling shift for the creation of Comparative Interpreting Studies, a… read more
2017 Finding and critiquing the invisible interpreter – a response to Uldis Ozolins Interpreting 19:2, pp. 260–270 | Discussion