The Critical Link: Interpreters in the Community

Papers from the 1st international conference on interpreting in legal, health and social service settings, Geneva Park, Canada, 1–4 June 1995

Editors

Silvana E. Carr | Vancouver Community Col.

Roda P. Roberts | Univ. of Ottawa

Aideen Dufour | Ministry of Attorney-General, Ontario

Dini Steyn | Open Learning Agency, Br. Columbia

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What is community interpreting? What are the roles of the community interpreter? What are the standards, evaluation methods and accreditation procedures pertaining to community interpreting? What training is available or required in this field? What are the current issues and practices in community interpreting in different parts of the world? These key questions, discussed at the first international conference on community interpreting, are addressed in this collection of selected conference papers.
The merit of this volume is that it presents the first comprehensive and global view of a rapidly growing profession, which has developed out of the need to provide services to those who do not speak the official language(s) of a country. Both the problems and the successes related to the challenge of providing adequate community interpreting services in different countries are covered in this volume.

[Benjamins Translation Library, 19] 1997. viii, 322 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.19

Table of Contents

Foreword: A landmark in the evolution of interpreting

Brian Harris | p. 1

Overview of community interpreting

Community interpreting today and tomorrow

Roda P. Roberts | p. 7

Roles of the community interpreter

The role of the interpreter in the adversarial courtroom

Sabine Fenton | p. 29

Recycled information as a questioning strategy: Pitfalls in interpreted-mediated talk

Cecilia Wadensjö | p. 35

Training in community interpreting

Orientation workshops for interpreters of all languages: How tostrike a balance between the ideal world and reality

Holly Mikkelson and Hanne Mintz | p. 55

Training the community interpreter: the Nunavut arctic college experience

Christine Penney and Susan Sammons | p. 65

Training needs of public personnel working with interpreters

Ann Corsellis | p. 77

Standards, evaluation, accreditation

The challenges of setting and monitoring the standards of community interpreting: An australian perspective

Sherrill J. Bell | p. 93

Community interpreting or not? Practices, standards and accreditation

Adolfo Gentile | p. 109

Accreditation in australia: An alternative means

Elizabeth Lascar | p. 119

Obtaining feedback from non-Engllish speakers

Nathan Garber and Louise A. Mauffette-Leenders | p. 131

Issues in community interpreting

Degree of interpreter responsibilty in the interaction process in community interpreting

Birgitta Englund Dimitrova | p. 147

Interpreting for health in the united states: Government partnerships with communities, interpreters, and providers

Julia Puebla Fortier | p. 165

Legal interpreting by Any other name is still legal interpreting

Virginia Benmaman | p. 179

The courtroom interpreter: Paragon and Intruder?

Yvonne Fowler | p. 191

The interpreter on trial: Pragmatics in court interpreting

Sandra Hale | p. 201

Community interpreting in Practice

“Is there anybody out there?” community interpreting in austria

Franz Pöchhacker | p. 215

Schollchildren as community interpreters

Carolyn Bullock and Brian Harris | p. 227

Training college students as community interpreters: an innovative model

Suzanne Michael and Marianne Cocchini | p. 237

UN military observer interpreting in a community setting

Roy / Francis Thomas | p. 249

Court interpretation in Denmark

Nancy Schweda Nicholson and Bodil Martinsen | p. 259

A three-tiered health care interpreter system

Silvana E. Carr | p. 271

Rhetoric and reality: Two decades of community interpreting and translating in australia

Terry Chesher | p. 277

Works cited | p. 293

Index | p. 311

“The merit of this volume is that it presents the first comprehensive and global view of a rapidly growing profession, which has developed out of the need to provide services to those who do not speak the official language(s) of a country.”

(TRANSST, no. 28, 1997)

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Subjects

Translation & Interpreting Studies

Interpreting

Main BIC Subject

CFP: Translation & interpretation

Main BISAC Subject

LAN023000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting

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ONIX 2.1

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