Issue 2/2024

In everyday life we use the term dialect to refer to local or regional variations of a language in terms of its pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. However, in linguistics, a dialect is any [...]

Introduction In 1948, the United Nations declared (1948, art. 21) democratic participation to be a fundamental right worldwide. However, data from the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy [...]

Introduction Intralingual live subtitles can be created through different modes, one of which is the technique of respeaking. As Eugeni (2008) defines it, respeaking is “[…] a technique thanks to [...]

Introduction The field of interpreting has been continuously evolving since its emergence and professionalisation, maintaining its dynamic nature. New tasks and phenomena within the profession [...]

Introduction Minutes services in Turkey go back a long way and have a deep-rooted history. Minutes services in the Turkish Grand National Assembly have been ongoing since 1878. In the Ottoman [...]

Introduction Using generative AI (GenAI) in the public sector comes with specific concerns related to accuracy, effectiveness, ethics and trust. In an attempt to address these and other [...]

The impact of Artificial Intelligence For a long time, we knew that Artificial Intelligence (AI) would burst into our lives. But we never thought that it would happen so abruptly and enter [...]

Introduction Coaching technology originated in the sports industry of the 1970s. Its main purpose was to allow athletes to get gold medals through optimal training. In the 1980s, this technology [...]

A school for the training of new judicial assistants In this article, I will introduce the training of stenographers in the Jiangxi Justice Police Vocational College in China. The Jiangxi Justice [...]

I have used Pitman 2000 shorthand for almost every day of a 37-year-long journalistic career that has taken me, as a Financial Times (FT) reporter, foreign correspondent, editor and columnist, [...]