Chuta Funayama

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About the Speaker

Chuta Funayama received BA in Russian from Osaka University of Foreign Studies in 1974, MA in linguistics from Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University in 1976, and is currently Professor, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies and Vice President of the Japan Association for Interpretation Studies. While being engaged in academic research and education, he has worked as professional conference interpreter between English and Japanese for over 30 years. His major interest in the field of interpreting studies lies in modelling simultaneous interpreting based on the linguistic exploration of utterance comprehension. His recent publications include “Enhancing Mental Processes in Simultaneous Interpreter Training” in The Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Vol.1 Issue 1 (2007), and “Conceptualization Processes in Simultaneous Interpretation” in Interpretation Studies, No. 4 (2004).