Il progetto CorIT: Corpus e prospettive di ricerca

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.