ABSTRACT
The article discusses how studies on interpreter-mediated discourse may benefit from the development of corpus technologies and presents examples of pragmatic phenomena in interpreting that are studied on the basis of systematically collected data. Whereas Shlesinger’s (1998) study on corpus-based interpreting studies was inspired by the investigation of universal patterns of language use in interpreting (“interpretese”), recent studies in the fields of pragmatics and interpreting studies investigate corpora of systematically collected data focusing on general and particular aspects of specific settings. In this sense, digitisation opens up new ways of exploring, presenting, and storing data from interpreter-mediated interactions, and it may help to overcome practical and ideological boundaries between qualitative and quantitative approaches. The article discusses these new developments through the example of the “Community Interpreting Database”.
