Issue 2/2020

One of the most dominant concepts in translation studies is the so-called translator’s invisibility (Venuti 1995). According to the theory behind it, fluency of translation predominates over [...]

Introduction When Antonio Michela, the inventor of the famous Michela stenographic system, published his Manuel de la sténographie mécanique in 1882 it contained several illustrative tables, [...]

Introduction Audio description is a translation of images to words. The visual is made verbal, allowing people who are blind or have low vision to have more meaningful access to visual images. [...]

Introduction Many professional and scientific fields that involve representing talk as written text use more or less edited versions of the original, also known as verbatim transcriptions (Poland [...]

Introduction As official reporters, we may find that our focus on reporting the words that are spoken in a parliamentary setting coincides most of the time with what is significant in the speech [...]

Introduction The Parliament of the Czech Republic was, like many others, considerably affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. When news came of the widespread outbreak, the whole office started taking [...]

Introduction At the time of writing this article, the reporters and other employees of the parliamentary reporting office (PRO) of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands have been [...]

Crisis: A danger, an opportunity, or a crucial point? In a memorable speech delivered in Indianapolis on 12 April 1959, the future US President John F. Kennedy said: “The Chinese use two brush [...]

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the world. Many aspects of human life have been profoundly affected, from personal lives and relationships to work and how we spend our [...]