Crossing Borders in Community Interpreting: Definitions and dilemmas
Edited by Carmen Valero Garcés and Anne Martin
[Benjamins Translation Library, 76] 2008. xii, 291 pp.
Carmen Valero Garcés
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carmen Valero Garcés plays a role.
Title
Subjects Interpreting
Articles
2022 Communicating in multilingual churches: The interpreter’s role as a case study Intelligences pour la traduction. IA et interculturel : actions et interactions., Maggi, Ludovica and Sarah Bordes (eds.), pp. 290–308
This paper aims to expand the boundaries of public service interpreting and translation (PSIT) and map the still widely unexplored territory of translating and interpreting in ecclesiastical settings. The starting point is the consideration that 21st-century societies are shaped by… read more | Article
2020 Chapter 12. Overcoming language barriers in the Spanish healthcare context Interpreting in Legal and Healthcare Settings: Perspectives on research and training, Ng, Eva N.S. and Ineke H.M. Crezee (eds.), pp. 287–311
The progression towards multicultural societies impacts on the quality of communication between professionals and their clients. This chapter focuses on the analysis of communication in a specific setting, namely the Spanish healthcare system, and concludes that language is a significant barrier to… read more | Chapter
2020 MOOC as a free, digital tool for different profiles providing introductory training in PSIT: Analysis and reflections Teaching and practising interpreting: From traditional to new remote approaches, Rodríguez Reina, Pilar and Estefanía Flores Acuña (eds.), pp. 183–210
In this article we present the results of the implementation of a MOOC providing an introduction in Public Service Interpreting and Translation (PSIT) for a variety of backgrounds and profiles, from people working with foreign population, to people who have no formal training and are ad-hoc… read more | Article
2017 Chapter 9. Teaching interpreters and translators to work in educational settings: A Chinese-Spanish case study Teaching Dialogue Interpreting: Research-based proposals for higher education, Cirillo, Letizia and Natacha Niemants (eds.), pp. 179–198
This chapter deals with educating dialogue interpreters working between languages/cultures that are linguistically and culturally distant to successfully deal with cultural issues when mediating in educational settings. The specific focus is on the Chinese community in Spanish schools. The… read more | Chapter
2016 Aproximaciones desde la ética en la interpretación en casos de violencia de género Babel 62:1, pp. 67–85
A 2011 Gender Violence Macrosurvey carried out by the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS, Spanish Centre for Sociological Research) in collaboration with the Spanish Government alerts The Macro on Gender Violence conducted by the Sociological Research Centre (CIS) gives significant figures… read more | Article
2016 Terminology, specialised language and lesser-used languages in PSIT Insights in Translation for Specific Purposes: Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 2:1 (2016), d’Angelis, Antonella, Estefanía Flores Acuña and Francisco Núñez-Roman (eds.), pp. 92–105
Our societies are undergoing a process of transformation entailing new challenges. One of these challenges includes the urgency to address certain needs that arise from the rate of change affecting the multilingual and multicultural societies in which we live. In turn, new technologies, which… read more | Article
2010 The difficult task of gathering information on PSI&T Babel 56:3, pp. 199–218
This increasingly more plural and changing society demands resources that allow communication between those arriving and those who are already there. Such a situation has been occurring since time immemorial, but since the last decades of the twentieth century it has accelerated and reached other… read more | Article
2010 The Value of Internships in PSIT Looking out of an Open Window FORUM 8:2, pp. 221–240
La professionnalisation de la Traduction et de l'Interprétation dans les Services Publics (TISP) requiert l'existence de professionnels compétents. Pour cela, la formation devient nécessaire et tel est l'objectif fondamental du Master en Communication Interculturelle, Interprétation et Traduction… read more | Article
2008 1. Introduction Crossing Borders in Community Interpreting: Definitions and dilemmas, Valero Garcés, Carmen and Anne Martin (eds.), pp. 1–7
Miscellaneous
2008 9. Hospital interpreting practice in the classroom and the workplace Crossing Borders in Community Interpreting: Definitions and dilemmas, Valero Garcés, Carmen and Anne Martin (eds.), pp. 165–185
This article deals with the training of interpreters and the effects of such training in the workplace. It is my intention, on the one hand, to analyse the interpreter’s intervention after some specific training, and on the other hand, to check the effectiveness of the interpreters’ training in the… read more | Article
2007 Doctor–patient consultations in dyadic and triadic exchanges Healthcare Interpreting: Discourse and Interaction, Pöchhacker, Franz and Miriam Shlesinger † (eds.), pp. 35–51
This article presents the results of a study on doctor–patient interaction in dyadic and triadic exchanges. The analysis is based on transcripts of recordings done at healthcare centres in northern Madrid, Spain, and Minneapolis, USA. The methodological approach is that of institutional discourse… read more | Article
2005 Doctor–patient consultations in dyadic and triadic exchanges Healthcare Interpreting: Discourse and Interaction, Pöchhacker, Franz and Miriam Shlesinger † (eds.), pp. 193–210
This article presents the results of a study on doctor–patient interaction in dyadic and triadic exchanges. The analysis is based on transcripts of recordings done at healthcare centres in northern Madrid, Spain, and Minneapolis, USA. The methodological approach is that of institutional discourse… read more | Article
2003 Review of “Análisis textual aplicado a la traducción”, by Isabel García Izquierdo Babel 49:1, pp. 93–96
Miscellaneous
2003 Responding to Communication Needs: Current Issues and Challenges in Community Interpreting and Translating in Spain The Critical Link 3: Interpreters in the Community, Brunette, Louise, Georges L. Bastin, Isabelle Hemlin and Heather Clarke (eds.), pp. 177–192
Article
2002 Interaction and conversational constrictions in the relationships between suppliers of services and immigrant users: Carmen Valero-Garcés Pragmatics 12:4, pp. 469–495
This article deals with aspects of interaction between doctors and immigrant users whose native language is not Spanish (immigrant non-native speakers of Spanish: INNSS) in healthcare centers in Spain. The methodological focus is based on institutional conversation analysis following Drew and… read more | Article
2002 Translation and Stereotypes as Cultural Facts: A Case Study, AIDS and the Latino Community in the USA Babel 48:4, pp. 289–304
The paper joins forces with the increasing literature on translation and cultural studies and places translation in the context of cross-cultural communication. It is my intention to analyse the factors that affect translation and the influence of stereotypical attitudes on the production of texts… read more | Article
1994 A methodological proposal for the assessment of translated literary works: A case study, The Scarlet Letter by N. Hawthorne into Spanis Babel 40:2, pp. 77–102
Le présent article est un exposé et une application d'une proposition méthodologique pour l'évaluation des oeuvres littéraires traduites. Le roman élu est The Scarlet Letter, écrit par N. Hawthorne (1850), et dix traductions en espagnol. Notre méthode propose une application de quelques théories… read more | Article