INTERACT
Interdisciplinary research network
on language contact research

Broadening the theoretical and methodological scope of translation and interpreting studies: towards an interdisciplinary language-contact framework

Aims

INTERACT aims to unite theoretical and methodological expertise in language contact research from various neighbouring disciplines:

• translation and interpreting studies
• psycholinguistics
• bilingualism studies
• variational sociolinguistics
• contact linguistics
• computational linguistics
• learner corpus research
• second language acquisition.

The ultimate objective is to get a clearer and more coherent view on the social, cognitive and technological constraints that influence the nature of translated, interpreted as well as other contact varieties in our highly globalized, digitalized and multicultural world.

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Structure

INTERACT is structured in 4 working groups:

• WG1: General coordination
• WG2: Theory formation
• WG3: Enriched research designs
• WG4: Statistics

Activities

INTERACT organizes summer schools and conferences, stimulates intra- and cross-disciplinary discussions during thematic workshops and enables short research visits for postdoctoral scholars. Find out more about our activities in the NEWS section.

The INTERACT research network is funded by Research Foundation Flanders.