A tomada de notas em interpretação consecutiva: algumas considerações históricas

Abstract

The first part of this article presents a brief historical perspective on the activity of consecutive interpreting over the centuries. In its second part, some relevant information on the works done by Jean Herbert, Jean-François Rozan, Heinz Matyssek, Danica Seleskovitch and Marianne Lederer will be presented and discussed. These scholars concentrated part of their researches on the elaboration of note-taking methods for consecutive interpreting. Finally, this article will focus on the leading role played by the note-taking method for consecutive interpreting that was proposed by Heinz Matyssek.