Congrestolken in Amsterdam organized a great team of spoken and sign language interpreters during the COSAC meetings in The Hague. It was a wonderful experience of working with spoken language interpreters into and from the 24 official EU languages together with International Sign interpretation. 

At the EYE event in Strasbourg on 20 May 2016 a special meeting was organized by the interpreting recruiting and programming department of the European Parliament. At the meeting Maya de Wit & Oliver Pouliot presented a glimpse into the world of sign language interpreting to the spoken language interpreters working at the event.

International Sign (IS) is widely used among deaf people and interpreters at international events, but what exactly is it, what are its linguistic features, where does its lexicon come from, and how is it used at interpreted events? This groundbreaking collection is the first volume to provide answers to these questions.