| AD | Audio Description |
| ASL | American Sign Language |
| AVT | Audiovisual Translation |
| BBC | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| BNC | British National Corpus |
| BSL | British Sign Language |
| BSLBT | British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust |
| CCSARP | Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Project |
| CDA | Critical Discourse Analysis |
| CLARIN | Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure |
| COCA | Corpus of American Contemporary English |
| DCT | Discourse Completion Tests |
| DSA | Directive Speech Act |
| EPIC | European Parliament Interpreting Corpus |
| EPICG | European Parliament Interpreting Corpus Ghent |
| EULITA | European Legal Interpreters and Translators Association |
| FTA | Face-Threatening Act |
| LSP | Language for Special Purposes |
| OSM | Online Social Media |
| PSI | Public Service Interpreting |
| PSL | Persons with Sight Loss |
| RI | Remote Interpreting |
| RMT | Rapport Management Theory |
| RT | Relevance Theory |
| SA | Source Audience |
| SL | Source Language |
| ST | Source Text |
| TA | Target Audience |
| TDM | Translation Discourse Material |
| TEC | Translational English Corpus |
| TIS | Translation and Interpreting Studies |
| TL | Target Language |
| TSLI | Theatre Sign Language Interpreter |
| TT | Target Text |
| VCI | Videoconference Interpreting |