Studying dialogue interpreting: an introduction

In order to prepare the ground for the papers to follow, the editors ‘set aside’ a series of assumptions which appear to underlie many studies on interpreting and recall two factors that determined significant advances in Dialogue Interpreting (DI) research: 1. the introduction of the name “dialogue interpreting” and the consequent elaboration of the “dialogic discourse-based interaction paradigm”; 2. the social or sociological turn taken by DI.