A multi-factorial approach to the development and analysis of professional expertise in SI

Abstract

In the last decade, attention in interpreting studies has focused on both the issues of expertise and of professionalisation. In view of the substantive changes taking place in the profession today, this article advocates the need for a new type of relationship between the two approaches in which both interact and enrich each other. It examines the interaction between the two dimensions of expertise − cognitive and sociocultural − to shed more light on what professional interpreting means and to gain a better understanding of the complex nature of interpreting expertise today.