Interpreting in the Community and Workplace: A Practical Teaching Guide

ISBN-13: 9780230285156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 248 str.

Mette Rudvin

Opis

Literature on the assessment of interpreters has grown rapidly in the emerging field of Community- and Public Service Interpreting, but there is still very little practical training material available. Numerous studies have demonstrated the importance of using trained rather than ad-hoc interpreters. This educational tool for trainers in all fields of dialogue interpreting hopes to fill precisely that gap.

Although the focus is on two key areas, the legal and health sectors, the book also includes business interpreting, which is a source of employment for many newly trained interpreters. It is thus an innovative and comprehensive teacher's aide that can be applied to a wide range of dialogue settings. The book discusses a number of theoretical and practical issues. One chapter is entirely devoted to classroom work and exercises. The book also includes fifteen annotated English-Italian dialogues that can easily be adapted to other language pairs.

Spis treści

List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction The literature The profession The genesis of this book Pedagogical aims: Why include the business sector? Who is this book for? How much experience must trainers have in interpreting techniques to make use of this book? We How much interpreting experience or training is expected of the students? Language specific? Structure of the book Dialogues

O autorze

METTE RUDVIN has been teaching at the University of Bologna, Italy since 1996. She works from time to time as a community interpreter between English, Italian and Urdu and has published widely on translation and community interpreting. 

ELENA TOMASSINI has been working as a conference interpreter since 1980. She taught at the University of Bologna from 1992 to 2009 and now teaches at SSML (Science of Linguistic Mediation), Fondazione Universitaria San Pellegrino.