The Critical Link 5

Quality in interpreting – a shared responsibility
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-2431-6
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 87, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

Reihe: Benjamins Translation Library

The current volume contains selected papers submitted after Critical Link 5 (Sydney 2007) and arises from its topic – quality interpreting being a communal responsibility of all the participants. It takes the much discussed theme of professionalisation of community interpreting to a new level by stating that achieving quality depends not only on the technical skills and ethics of interpreters, but equally upon all other parties that serve multilingual populations: speakers, employers and administrators, educational institutions, researchers, and interpreters. Major articles outline both innovative practices in legal and medical settings and prevailing deficiencies in community interpreting in different countries. While Part I, A shared responsibility: The policy dimension, addresses the macro environment of specific social policy contexts with constrains that affect interpreting, Part II, Investigations and innovations in quality interpreting, reveals a number of admirable cases of interpreters working together with their client institutions in a variety of social settings. Part III is dedicated to the questions of Pedagogy, ethics and responsibility in interpreting. The collection is an important reference book catering to the interpreting community: interpreting practitioners and interpreter users, researchers, educators, and students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hale, Sandra Beatriz

Ozolins, Uldis

Stern, Ludmila

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction. Quality in interpreting: A shared responsibility
Uldis Ozolins and Sandra Hale
Part I. A shared responsibility: The policy dimension
2. Forensic interpreting: Trial and error
Len Roberts-Smith
3. The tension between adequacy and acceptability in legal interpreting and translation
Eva N.S. Ng
4. A discourse of danger and loss: Interpreters on interpreting for the European Parliament
Stephanie Jo Kent
5. Is healthcare interpreter policy left in the seventies? Does current interpreter policy match the stringent realities of modern healthcare?
Pamela W Garrett
Part II. Investigations and innovations in quality interpreting
6. Interpreter ethics versus customary law: Quality and compromise in Aboriginal languages interpreting
Michael S. Cooke
7. A shared responsibility in the administration of justice: A pilot study of signed language interpretation access for deaf jurors
Jemina Napier, David Spencer and Joe Sabolcec
8. Interpreting for the record: A case study of asylum review hearings
Franz Pöchhacker and Waltraud Kolb
9. Court interpreting in Basque: Mainstreaming and quality: The challenges of court interpreting in Basque
Erika González and Lurdes Auzmendi
10. Community interpreting in Spain: A comparative study of interpreters’ self perception of role in different settings
Juan M. Ortega Herráez, M. I. Abril Martí and Anne Martin
Part III. Pedagogy, ethics and responsibility in interpreting
11. Toward more reliable assessment of interpreting performance
Jieun Lee
12. Quality in healthcare interpreter training: Working with norms through recorded interaction
Raffaela Merlini and Roberta Favaron
13. What can interpreters learn from discourse studies?
Helen Tebble
14. Achieving quality in health care interpreting: Insights from interpreters
Ilse Blignault, Maria Stephanou and Cassandra Barrett
15. Research ethics, interpreters and biomedical research
Patricia Kaufert, Joseph M. Kaufert and Lisa LaBine
Contributors
Index