Date: 16-Jun-2008 From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com> Subject: Crossing Borders in Community Interpreting: Valero-Garcs, Martin (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Crossing Borders in Community Interpreting
Subtitle: Definitions and dilemmas
Series Title: Benjamins Translation Library 76
Published: 2008
Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/
Editor: Carmen Valero-Garcs
Editor: Anne Martin
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027216854 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027216854 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Abstract:
At conferences and in the literature on community interpreting there is one burning issue that reappears constantly: the interpreters role. What are the norms by which the facilitators of communication shape their role? Is there indeed only one role for the community interpreter or are there several? Is community interpreting aimed at facilitating communication, empowering individuals by giving them a voice or, in wider terms, at redressing the power balance in society? In this volume scholars and practitioners from different countries address these questions, offering a representative sample of ongoing research into community interpreting in the Western world, of interest to all who have a stake in this form of interpreting. The opening chapter establishes the wider contextual and theoretical framework for the debate. It is followed by a section dealing with codes and standards and then moves on to explore the interpreters role in various different settings: courts and police, healthcare, schools, occupational settings and social services.
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