The Dialogue Interpreter is implicitly co-ordinating the conversation ascommon activity by carrying out the relaying. As illustrated above, differentkinds of renditions function as to condition the primary parties' exchange oftalk. The topical trajectory of discourse is partly determined by the DialogueInterpreter's rendition (or lack of rendition). This is the case however 'close'it is, since a rendition by definition is a reformulation within the linguisticsystem of another language. However, not all renditions are particularlyinteresting in the perspective of co-ordinating