Interpreting in the Community and Workplace [electronic resource] : A Practical Teaching Guide /
Rudvin, Mette.author.
Tomassini, Elena.author.
An innovative and comprehensive guide that can be applied to a wide range of dialogue settings this educational tool for trainers in all fields of dialogue interpreting addresses not only the two key areas of Community- and Public Service Interpreting, the legal and health sectors, but also business interpreting.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Interpreting In and For the Community, Between Practice and Practitioners: A Few Theoretical Premises; 1.1 Interpreting and migration: migration in context; 1.1.1 Relations of asymmetry between developing and developed: givers and takers?; 1.1.2 Eurocentric bias; 1.2 Language, culture and the translation process; 1.3 Classifying by technique and areas of application: terminological confusion; 1.3.1 Dialogue and face-to-face interpreting; 1.3.2 Community versus conference interpreting; 1.3.3 Sign language interpreting
1.4 Creating a positive global effect by educating service providers2 Theoretical Issues: The Impact of Cross-cultural Communication, Institutional Hierarchies and Professional Ethics on Interpreting; 2.1 The impact of cultures on translating; 2.1.1 How to deal with hierarchical communication; 2.1.2 Politeness management; 2.1.3 Business settings; 2.1.4 Greetings and non-verbal communication; 2.2 Bridging cross-cultural differences: intercultural transfer competence; 2.2.1 Coordinating discourse: cross-cultural variation in conversation management
2.2.2 Coordinating talk: coordinating emotional talk2.2.3 When the interpreter is drawn into the conversation; 2.3 The code of ethics: the interpreter's role, responsibility and tasks; 2.3.1 Knowledge and competence; 2.3.2 Attitude; 2.3.3 Conduct; 2.3.4 Personal responsibility: acceptance of assignments; 3 Background: Health Services, Legal Institutions and the Business Sector; 3.1 Interpreting for the health services; 3.1.1 Organization and structure; 3.1.2 Sector-specific contents; 3.2 Interpreting for legal services; 3.2.1 Organization and structure; 3.2.2 Sector-specific contents
3.3 Interpreting for the business sector3.3.1 Organization and structure; 3.3.2 Sector-specific contents; 3.4 Interpreting modes: consecutive, chuchotage, dialogue versus working in booths; 4 Teaching Methods and Objectives: Course Structure; 4.1 You can teach an old dog new tricks: adapting old methods to new challenges; 4.1.1 Teaching objectives: interpreting faculties versus modern language faculties; 4.1.2 Course format: language-specific or language-generic?; 4.1.3 Which languages?; 4.2 Assessing students' competence; 4.3 Interpreting skills and competencies
4.4 The a-b-c of interpreting competence4.4.1 Passive skills; 4.4.2 Active skills; 5 In the Classroom; 5.1 Structure and organization; 5.1.1 Lesson format - from general to specific to practical exercises; 5.1.2 Role play and pre-prepared dialogue simulation; 5.1.3 Preparing the dialogue at home; 5.1.4 Trainer-single student role play; 5.1.5 Recording student deliveries; 5.1.6 Evaluating delivery through peer critique and self-assessment; 5.1.7 Evaluating accuracy in student delivery; 5.1.8 Trainer-student rapport: the advantages of two trainers versus one; 5.1.9 Writing dialogues
5.1.10 Examples of cross-cultural pragmatic features that can be built into dialogues
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An innovative and comprehensive guide that can be applied to a wide range of dialogue settings this educational tool for trainers in all fields of dialogue interpreting addresses not only the two key areas of Community- and Public Service Interpreting, the legal and health sectors, but also business interpreting.
Teaching.
Public relations.
Law.
Medical ethics.
Translation and interpretation.
Philology.
Linguistics.
Teaching and Teacher Education.
Corporate Communication/Public Relations.
Law, general.
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
Translation.
Language and Literature.