Pauses in Simultaneous Interpreting: A Multimodal Corpus-Based Approach

This book presents cutting-edge research on simultaneous interpreting based on a multimodal corpus. It examines various aspects of pausing, an important non-verbal feature, such as its frequency, duration, and syntactic distribution in professional interpreters’ English-to-Chinese simultaneous interpreting. In addition to describing the pause characteristics, the book investigates their connections with interpreters’ behavior and cognition. It also introduces the procedures for constructing a multimodal simultaneous interpreting corpus and the analytical methods used in its application. As one of the first books to employ in-depth multimodal corpus analysis in the study of simultaneous interpreting, it advances corpus-based interpreting research and serves as a valuable reference for scholars in the field.

Taoyun Qi is currently an Associate Professor and previously served as Chair of the Department of Interpreting at the School of Interpreting and Translation, Beijing International Studies University. He completed his PhD in Interpreting Studies at Fu Jen Catholic University in 2021, and conducted visiting research at the University of Leeds from 2024 to 2025. His research interests lie in corpus-based interpreting studies and interpreting pedagogy. He has worked as a conference interpreter since 2007.