Issue 2/2022

In my previous Tiro column, I talked about connotation as one of the resources which diamesic translators – professional reporters and transcribers – can rely on to understand what a speaker [...]

From multimodality to embodied cognition: interpreting (through) gestures This article illustrates a brief overview of results from an empirical research project, conducted in collaboration with [...]

Introduction Sport competitions are almost always separated by sex, because there are obvious differences between men and women in their physical strength and abilities. However, when it comes to [...]

Sharing Best Practices This year, the members of the Hansard Association of Canada (HAC) were able to meet in person for the first time since 2019. This delay was an unfortunate situation for [...]

Success in any organisation depends on the quality of assistance. A strong foundation is a precondition for well-functioning top layers. The assistance division of the Dutch Parliamentary [...]

Introduction For the last 10 years, speakers in the Dutch Parliament have been able to submit requests for corrections to their reported speeches via a dedicated website managed by the [...]

Hansard Services in British Columbia is marking 50 years of reporting the debates of the Legislative Assembly. The anniversary has been a time for us to reflect on the changes the organisation, [...]

Parliamentary reporting was introduced in Finland roughly 160 years ago, but the basic workflow in the Records Office of the Parliament of Finland has not changed much since the early days: we [...]

Kitchen Captions I read somewhere that the pandemic accelerated existing trends in remote working, which is true to say of UK captioning. Real-time caption software was already widely used before [...]

Accessibility has become an important concept in official public communication during the last few years, with a clear emphasis in many countries that public services must be accessible to [...]