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Institutional translation and interpreting : assessing practices and managing for quality / edited by Fernando Prieto Ramos.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in translation studies ; 55.
- Routledge advances in translation and interpreting studies ; 55
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Translating and interpreting--Quality control.
- Translating and interpreting.
- Translating and interpreting--Case studies.
- Business communication.
- Quality control.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Fernando Prieto Ramos is Full Professor and Director of the Centre for Legal and Institutional Translation Studies (Transius) at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
- Notes:
- Assessing Practices in Institutional Translation and Interpreting (Fernando Prieto Ramos) -- Part I. TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING FOR NATIONAL AND REGIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- 1. A Comparative Approach to Assessing Assessment: Revising the Scoring Chart for the Authorized Translator's Examination in Finland (Leena Salmi and Marja Kivilehto) -- 2. Lexical Readability as an Indicator of Quality in Translation: Best Practices from Swiss Legislation (Paolo Canavese) -- 3. Assessing Translation Practices of Non-professional Translators in a Multilingual Institutional Setting (Flavia De Camillis) -- 4. Translation in the Shadows of Interpreting in US Court Systems: Standards, Guidelines and Practice (Jeffrey Killman) -- 5. Developing an Evaluation Tool for Legal Interpreting Quality Control: The INTER-Q Questionnaire (María Jesús Blasco Mayor and Marta Sancho Viamonte) -- Part 2. TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING AT INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS -- 6.Every Second Counts: A Study of Translation Practices in the European Commission's DGT (María Fernández-Parra) -- 7. Ensuring Consistency and Accuracy of Legal Terms in Institutional Translation: The Role of Terminological Resources in International Organizations (Fernando Prieto Ramos) -- 8. Corrigenda of EU Legislative Acts as an Indicator of Quality Assurance Failures: A Micro-diachronic Analysis of Errors Rectified in the Polish Corrigenda (Łucja Biel and Izabela Pytel) -- 9. The Impact of Translation Competence on Institutional Translation Management and Quality: The Evidence from Action Research (Fernando Prieto Ramos and Mariam Sperandio) -- 10. Interpreting at the United Nations: The Effects of Delivery Rate on Quality in Simultaneous Interpreting (Lucía Ruiz Rosendo, Mónica Varela García and Alma Barghout) -- Managing for Quality: Practical Lessons from Research Insights (Fernando Prieto Ramos).
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 23, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780429559914
- 0429559917
- 9780429555442
- 042955544X
- 9780429264894
- 0429264895
- 9780429564383
- 0429564384
- Publisher Number:
- 40030264900
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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