Editors' critical foreword Foreword Abbreviations and symbols CHAPTER 1 The psycholinguistic approach to SI research 1.SI and the linguistic theory of translation 2.The methodological basis of a psycholinguistic approach to SI 3.The object of SI psycholinguistic research CHAPTER 2 Speed, memory and simultaneity: Speech processing under unusual constraints 4.Simultaneity in SI 5.Time constraints 6.Externally controlled pace of activity 7.Recited texts vs.improvised discourse CHAPTER 3 The semantic and pragmatic structure of discourse 8.Word meaning 9.Polysemy and synonymy in discourse 10.Componential analysis of meaning 11.Semantic agreement: A combinatory law of discourse 12.Semantic redundancy in discourse 13.Semantic redundancy in discourse: An example CHapTER 4 Semantic structure and objective semantic redundancy 14.The concept of sense 15.Theme of communication, object of an utterance, and foregrounding 16.The semantic structure of discourse and its basic components 17.Semantic structure as the object and product of SI CHAPTER 5 Communicative context and subjective redundancy 18.Implicit sense and inference 19.Linguistic inference 20.Cognitive inference 21.Situational inference 22.Pragmatic inference 23.The communicative situation of simultaneous interpretation 24.Discourse equivalent 25.Interdependence of situation and semantic structure in inferencing 26.Situational factors in comprehension: An illustration CHAPTER 6 A probability anticipation model for SI 27.The principle of anticipatory reflection of reality 28.Message development probability anticipation 29.Multilevel redundancy and probability anticilSation 30.Cumulative dynamic analysis (CDA) and the range of probability anticipation 31.Towards the internal programme for the TL utterance CHAPTER 7 Theme and compression 32.The thematic (referential) component of discourse in SI 33.Redundancy in Spanish public speaking 34.Types of speech compression in SI CHAPTER 8 Rheme and information density 35.Perception by information density peaks 36.Loss of information due to a missed rheme 37.Strong rheme, weak rheme, chain of referents 38.The dominant evaluative rheme in a political discourse 39.Rendering the evaluative component in SI CHAPTER 9 Syntax and communicative word order 40.The internal programme for the TL utterance: Whole or broken? 41.Word order and communicative syntax 42.Syntactic complexity, logical sequence and working memory 43.Short and extended predicates CHAPTER 10 SI and Anokhin's theory of activity 44.SI as a functional system 45.Probability anticipation as a multilevel mechanism 46.Self-monitoring or feedback 47.The efficiency of the SI communicative act and the SI invariant CHAPTER 11 Anticipation and Sh An experiment CHAPTER 12 Conclusion Notes References TRANSCRIPTS Appendix A Buenos Aires corpus - UN, 1978, Experiment in Remote Interpreting Appendix B United Nations General Assembly sessions Appendix C Texts with two types of test items used as input in an SI probability anticipation experiment (Chernov 1978)Name index Subject index