ABSTRACT
In dialogue interpreting, which typically takes place in community or public service settings, face-to-face interpreting is frequently replaced by telephone interpreting and also increasingly by video-mediated interpreting. However, the mediation by means of technology shapes the ways in which multimodal resources, such as gaze and gesture, can be used to manage the conversational flow. Yet, we still have a limited understanding of the ways in which interaction is managed in remote interpreting, as well as of the role of visual access, paralinguistic features and contextual factors in these dynamics. This introductory chapter discusses the the main premises of remote dialogue interpreting and micro-analysis and shows how the chapters in this volume respond to the need to explore the intrinsic relationships between interaction management, technology and multimodality in remote dialogue interpreting at a micro-level.
