This paper describes the CorIT (Corpus of Television Interpreting) project by
Straniero Sergio & Falbo (Straniero Sergio, 2007; Falbo, 2009, 2012; Straniero
Sergio & Falbo, 2012) and gives an account of a series of studies on television
interpreting conducted on CorIT data, both by analysts and MA students of the
SSLMIT of the University of Trieste.
After a brief introduction (cf. 1), an illustration of Corpus-based interpreting
studies (CIS) and the relevant methodological framework is provided (cf. 2), with
special attention devoted to the latest developments present in the literature. In
the following section (cf. 3) the focus shifts to CorIT, its main features and classification
criteria. The final section (cf. 4) illustrates a series of investigations conducted
on CorIT, from the point of view of the main research perspectives and
research methods applied to CorIT data.
By firstly illustrating the data collected in CorIT and the applied classification
criteria, and subsequently providing an account of the broad range of issues investigated
within the project, the paper aims at highlighting the great potential
of research conducted on television interpreting performances with the corpusbased
approach, especially from the point of view of data comparability and ecological
validity.
