The Critical Link 5: Quality in interpreting – a shared responsibility
Edited by Sandra Hale, Uldis Ozolins and Ludmila Stern
[Benjamins Translation Library, 87] 2009. vii, 255 pp.
Uldis Ozolins
List of John Benjamins publications for which Uldis Ozolins plays a role.
Title
Subjects Interpreting
Articles
2018. Carmen Valero-Garcés and Rebecca Tipton (Eds.). Ideology, ethics and policy development in public service interpreting and translation . Interpreting 20:2, pp. 324–330
Review
2017. The effect of interpreting modes on witness credibility assessments. Interpreting 19:1, pp. 69–96
Research into court interpreting has shown that interpreters can have an impact on the case in many different ways. However, the extent to which this occurs depends on several factors, including the interpreter’s competence, ethics and specialized training in court interpreting, as well as working… read more | Article
2017. Chapter 2. It’s not about the interpreter: Objectives in dialogue interpreting teaching. Teaching Dialogue Interpreting: Research-based proposals for higher education, Cirillo, Letizia and Natacha Niemants (eds.), pp. 45–62
While a central objective of any interpreter training is to develop professional language transfer skills, dialogue interpreting sets additional challenges in coping with the interpersonal dynamics and often significantly divergent institutional status, discourse styles and communicative intent of… read more | Chapter
2016. The Latvian referendum on Russian as a second state language, February 2012. Language Problems and Language Planning 40:2, pp. 121–145
On 18 February 2012 Latvian citizens participated in a referendum on making Russian a second official (“state”) language. The proposal was rejected by three-quarters of voters. There is a complex background to language policy in Latvia, where since regaining independence in 1991 the country has… read more | Article
2014. Rewriting the AUSIT Code of Ethics – principles, practice, dispute. Babel 60:3, pp. 347–370
Codes of ethics in translating and interpreting have become increasingly examined in recent literature, as practitioners in ever-widening fields of practice see such codes as essential in underpinning their professionalism. While such codes in various professions set standards for their… read more | Article
2013. Role playing “Pumpkin”. Interpreting in a Changing Landscape: Selected papers from Critical Link 6, Schäffner, Christina, Krzysztof Kredens and Yvonne Fowler (eds.), pp. 31–43
In September 2007 a three-year old Asian girl is found lost at city railway station in Melbourne, Australia. As police and child protection workers struggle to communicate with the child, they call an interpreter, guessing the girl – nicknamed “Pumpkin” – could be Chinese. Later, we find that the… read more | Article
2010. Review of Kelly (2008): Telephone interpreting: A comprehensive guide to the profession. Interpreting 12:2, pp. 259–262
Review
2009. 1. Introduction. Quality in interpreting: A shared responsibility. The Critical Link 5: Quality in interpreting – a shared responsibility, Hale, Sandra, Uldis Ozolins and Ludmila Stern (eds.), pp. 1–10
Article
2007. The interpreter’s ‘third client’: Interpreters, professionalism and interpreting agencies. The Critical Link 4: Professionalisation of interpreting in the community, Wadensjö, Cecilia, Birgitta Englund Dimitrova and Anna-Lena Nilsson (eds.), pp. 121–131
Interpreting agencies are crucial in determining outcomes in community interpreting, but have been little studied. We analyze the role of agencies in the context of changing employment practices in the field, where more interpreters now work as freelancers. We identify problematic issues for both… read more | Article
2000. Communication Needs and Interpreting in Multilingual Settings: The International Spectrum of Response. The Critical Link 2: Interpreters in the Community, Roberts, Roda P., Silvana E. Carr, Diana Abraham and Aideen Dufour (eds.), pp. 21 ff.
Article
1991. Language policy in interpreting and translating. Language Planning and Language Policy in Australia, Liddicoat, Anthony J. (ed.), pp. 177–190
While the area of I/T has had an ambivalent place in Australian language policy, the area of I/T is of interest because Australia serves as a model a kind if I?T which is becoming increasingly common throughout the world. The present summary article explores the particular place of I/T within… read more | Article