Simultaneous Interpreting as a Demanding Strategic Operation – the Issue of the Interpreter’s Experience

Strategies such as omissions, additions, and self-corrections are regarded as a sine qua noncondition of simultaneous interpreting in all its aspects. Therefore, an empirical study wasdevised in order to examine the distribution of the aforementioned strategies in the performanceof 10 professional interpreters and 10 student interpreters from Krosno State College.The rendition of two selected speeches was analysed on the basis of an experiment involvingbi-directional interpreting from Polish into English and from English into Polish. The studywill shed a new light on the way the aforementioned strategies are applied by interpreters ata different level of advancement