The Effects of Personality Hardiness on Interpreting Performance: Implications for Aptitude Testing for Interpreting

by XING XING

Book Overview

This book sheds new light on personality dispositions research into interpreter performance, injecting fresh impetus for a new research agenda designed to further our understanding of hardiness-performance linkages in interpreters. Interpreters are made not born (Mackintosh, 1999: 67), i.e., it is generally assumed that everyone has the potential to become an interpreter, given proper training. Nonetheless, time constraints and financial limitations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9819963346
• ISBN13: 9789819963348
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"