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Conference International Conference on Interpreting in Legal, Health, and Social Service Settings (5th : 2007 : Parramatta, N.S.W.)

Title The critical link 5 : quality in interpreting : a shared responsibility / edited by Sandra Hale, Uldis Ozolins, Ludmila Stern.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 255 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium 3 1/2 in.
monochrome
Description text file
Series Benjamins translation library, 0929-7316 ; v. 87. EST subseries
Benjamins translation library. EST subseries.
Benjamins translation library ; v. 87.
Note Contains selected papers from Critical link 5, held from 11 to 15 April 2007, in Parramatta, Sydney.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: quality in interpreting: a shared responsibility / Uldis Ozolins and Sandra Hale -- pt. I.A shared responsibility: the policy dimension -- Forensic interpreting: trial and error / Len Roberts-Smith -- The tension between adequacy and acceptability in legal interpreting and translation / Eva N.S. Ng -- A discourse of danger and loss: interpreters on interpreting for the European Parliament / Stephanie Jo Kent -- Is healthcare interpreter policy left in the seventies?: does current interpreter policy match the stringent realities of modern healthcare? / Pamela W. Garrett -- pt. II. Investigations and innovations in quality interpreting -- Interpreter ethics versus customary law: quality and compromise in Aboriginal languages interpreting / Michael S. Cooke -- A shared responsibility in the administration of justice: a pilot study of sign language interpretation access for deaf jurors / Jemina Napier, David Spencer and Joe Sabolcec -- Interpreting for the record: a case study of asylum review hearings / Franz Pöchhacker and Waltraud Kolb -- Court interpreting in Basque: mainstreaming and quality: the challenges of court interpreting in Basque / Erika González and Lurdes Auzmendi -- Community interpreting in Spain: a comparative study of interpreters' self perception of role in different settings / J.M. Ortega Herráez, M.I. Abril Martí and A. Martin -- pt. III. Pedagogy, ethics and responsibility in interpreting -- Toward more reliable assessment of interpreting performance / Jieun Lee -- Quality in healthcare interpreter training: working with norms through recorded interaction / Raffaela Merlini and Roberta Favaron -- What can interpreters learn from discourse studies? / Helen Tebble -- Achieving quality in health care interpreting: insights from interpreters / Ilse Blignault, Maria Stephanou and Cassandra Barrett -- Research ethics, interpreters and biomedical research / Patricia Kaufert, Joseph M. Kaufert and Lisa LaBine.
Summary The current volume contains selected papers submitted after Critical Link 5 (Sydney 2007) and arises from its topic - quality interpreting being a communal responsibility of all the participants. It takes the much discussed theme of professionalisation of community interpreting to a new level by stating that achieving quality depends not only on the technical skills and ethics of interpreters, but equally upon all other parties that serve multilingual populations: speakers, employers and administrators, educational institutions, researchers, and interpreters. Major articles outline both innova.
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Subject Translating and interpreting -- Congresses.
Translating and interpreting -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Ozolins, Uldis, 1948-
Stern, Ludmila.
Hale, Sandra Beatriz.
Added Title Critical link five
Other Form: Print version: International Conference on Interpreting in Legal, Health, and Social Service Settings (5th : 2007 : Parramatta, N.S.W.). Critical link 5. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2009 9789027224316 (DLC) 2009033364 (OCoLC)430679003
ISBN 9789027224316 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9027224315 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9789027288844 (electronic book)
9027288844 (electronic book)