Interpreting
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1990
VIII, 184 pages
978-90-272-8599-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is concerned with the profession and discipline of interpretation. The range of perspectives presented in this collection of essays exemplifies the rich diversity of the profession as we know it today. Interpreting has been known to exist through the ages, though it was not necessarily considered a profession as such. We can attribute the current standing of the practice, in large part, to the historical circumstances which determined it and the efforts of those who responded to the need for communication within these circumstances. In the same way, our anticipation of future needs and the measures we are taking to prepare our next generation of interpreters to meet them will undoubtedly shape the direction our profession takes in the 21st century. The contributors to this volume are practicing interpreters, teachers of interpretation, and administrators.
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Content
- Interpreting Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
- Editorial page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Editors' Remarks
- REFERENCE
- Summary History of Language Services in the U.S. Department of State
- Working Conditions at the Nuremberg Trials
- Introduction
- Interview
- Nuremberg and the UN - Breaking New Ground
- Concluding Remarks
- The Life of a Diplomatic Interpreter: An Interview with Irena Dobosz
- History and Role of Interpreting in Africa
- Diplomatic Interpreting in Czechoslovakia
- REFERENCES
- The Sense of Situation in Conference Interpreting
- REFERENCE
- The Importance of Sight Translation in an Interpreter Training Program
- Introduction
- What is Sight Translation?
- Using Sight Translation to Prepare for a Conference
- Sight Translation in Consecutive Interpretation
- Sight Translation in Simultaneous Interpretation
- The Importance and Role of Sight Translation in the Curriculum
- Teaching Sight Translation
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCE
- The Role of Cognitive Complements in Interpreting
- The Order of Words
- Prepositions
- Number of Words
- Verbal Context
- Situational Context
- Cognitive Context
- Knowledge of the World or Encyclopedic Knowledge
- REFERENCES
- Curriculum Review at the ISIT (Mexico City)
- Background
- Curriculum Design
- Present Fourth Year Simultaneous Interpretation Program
- Present Evaluation Procedure for Fourth Year Simultaneous Interpretation Course
- Theoretical Considerations for a Subjective Grading System
- Future Professional Certificate Examination (under consideration)
- Conclusion
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- Development of Legal Interpreter Education in New Jersey
- Background
- Pedagogical Issues
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- How American Courts View Defendants' Rights to Interpreters
- Official Policy Toward Court Interpretation
- How the Courts View Competency
- The Failure of Standard Testing
- Foundations of the Alleged Right to an Interpreter
- Response of Organized Court Interpreters
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The Challenge for the Court Interpreter in Southern Florida
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The Intricate Witness-Interpreter Relationship
- Interpretation at the Demjanjuk Trial
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Court Interpreting in a Multiracial Society-the Malaysian Experience
- REFERENCES
- Interpreting in Multicultural Settings
- Interpreters and Social Workers: Contemporary Professional Challenges
- Some Preliminary Findings
- Observations
- Questions
- Recommendations
- Conclusion
- Community Interpreting in the Curriculum
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- Consecutive Note-Taking for Community Interpretation
- Introduction
- Contextualized Versus Non-Contextualized Information
- The Rationale for Note-Taking
- Practical Advice for the Development of a Note-Taking System
- Consecutive Note-Taking Exercises
- Conclusion
- NOTE
- REFERENCES
- Community Interpreting in Australia
- REFERENCES
- Some Thoughts on the Evaluation of Simultaneous Interpretation
- Professional Standards
- Evaluation
- Scenario One: All Prerequisites are Fulfilled
- Scenario Two: Interpreting into a Foreign Language
- Scenario Three: Lack of Background Knowledge
- REFERENCES
- Should Conference Interpreters Specialize?
- Overcoming Language Barriers in European Television
- Introduction and Background
- Interpretation in the Media-Challenges and Difficulties
- Promoting the Concept of Media Interpreting
- A Scenario for the Future
- Media Translators /Interpreters-a New Job Profile?
- Conclusions
- REFERENCES
- Contributors
- Call for Proposals: Translation: Theory and Practice
- ATA Corporate Members
- ATA Institutional Members
- American Translators Association Officers and Board of Directors, 1989
- The series American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series
