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New Issue: Interpreting and Society

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New Issue

Journal: Interpreting and Society: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2026.

Main topics:

  • The European Language Council’s Special Interest Group on AI in Translation and Interpreting presents a roadmap for users and policymakers, examining opportunities, risks, ethical challenges, and policy implications of AI for translation and interpreting.

  • A comparison of GPT-5 translations with human interpreters’ renditions of political discourse, investigating whether large language models can reproduce the interpersonal functions that are central to interpreting.

  • A study on how ASR-generated live captions affect student interpreters’ performance in simultaneous interpreting at different speech rates, offering insights into human–machine interaction in interpreting workflows.

  • An examination of directional effects in machine interpreting-assisted consecutive interpreting, shedding light on performance, cognitive load, and AI-supported interpreting practice.

Read more: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/isy/current?__cf_chl_f_tk=QK6L85q8DfPyb_QGtaw4KkLKcDFaY3yx3096UymB_7Q-1783015706-1.0.1.1-M6xUM.dZYc1VvHJkcOH28p5Ileyw8bQmw8jdi3YMEOw