Interpreter-Mediated Football Press Conferences: A Study on the Questioning and Answering Strategies

Press conferences during major football tournaments are usually multilingual and interpreter-mediated. This paper draws on audio and video data from FOOTIE, a corpus of simultaneously interpreted football press conferences held during the UEFA EURO 2008 football championships. The aim is to analyse the questioning and answering strategies employed by the press and the interviewees, and then investigate to what extent such dynamics were replicated in the interpreted version.

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