Simultaneous interpreting of a scientific discussion

Abstract This article aims to identify and describe the peculiarities of the mechanism of transformation in the process of simultaneous interpreting of a scientific discussion. Discussion is a very special text type. Its peculiarities arise from its oral and immediate nature. The process of simultaneous interpreting is not a simple transformation of a text from a source language into a target language, but is, rather, a complex process. The interpreter first transforms the source language text into a certain type of representation of its sense; this is followed by a second transformation of this semantic representation into the target language text. The task of the interpreter requires mechanisms and procedures for language comprehension and language production within a very limited span of time. The present article explores the peculiarities of simultaneous interpreting of scientific discussion as a text type.