Meaning and Meaning Processing in Interpretation and Interpreting Teaching

Starting with the cognitive approach to meaning the French School of interpretation headed by Seleskovitch and Lederer is based on, this paper studies meaning as a deverbalized product, related to the substantive memory, and discusses its processing in terms of conceptualizing. Since meaning processing/comprehension largely depends on the interpreter’s anticipation ability, the main anticipation cues, i.e. co-textual (intralingual), extralinguistic (situational) and context independent are identified and the “smart” shadow reading technique is described as a means of developing anticipation skills in interpreting