Be(com)ing a conference interpreter : an ethnography of EU interpreters as a professional community / Veerle Duflou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duflou, Veerle, author.

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; Volume 124.

Benjamins translation library, 0929-7316 ; Volume 124

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating services--European Union countries.

Translating services.

Translating and interpreting--European Union countries.

Translating and interpreting.

Ethnology--European Union countries.

Ethnology.

Congresses and conventions--European Union countries.

Congresses and conventions.

European Union countries--Ethnology.

European Union countries.

European Union countries--Languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 393 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study offers a novel view of Conference Interpreting by looking at EU interpreters as a professional community of practice. In particular, Duflou’s work focuses on the nature of the competence conference interpreters working for the European Parliament and the European Commission need to acquire in order to cope with their professional tasks. Making use of observation as a member of the community, in-depth interviews and institutional documents, she explores the link between the specificity of the EU setting and the knowledge and skills required. Her analysis of the learning experiences of newcomers in the professional community shows that EU interpreters’ competence is to a large extent context-dependent and acquired through situated learning. In addition, it highlights the various factors which have an impact on this learning process.Using the way Dutch booth EU interpreters share the workload in the booth as a case, Duflou demonstrates the importance of mastering collaborative and embodied skills for EU interpreters. She thereby challenges the idea of interpreting competence from an individual, cognitive accomplishment and redefines it as the ability to apply the practical and setting-determined know-how required to function as a full member of the professional community.

Contents:

2.1.1 Selecting candidates for interviewing2.1.2 Recruiting interviewees; 2.1.3 Conducting interviews among interpreters: From trying to trace the chronology of socialization to enquiring into the nature of situated learning; 2.1.3.1 Being an 'active' interviewer; 2.1.3.2 Being an 'emic' interviewer: Managing preconceptions, bias and reactivity; 2.1.3.3 Creating 'space' for interviewees; 2.1.3.4 Ensuring a shared framework for interaction: The research interview as a discursive genre; 2.1.3.5 The interviewer-interviewee relationship: About roles & power

2.1.4 The truth status of interview data2.2 Analyzing interview data; 2.2.1 Entextualizing dialogic interaction: Transcription as a first analytical step; 2.2.2 'What's this about?': Thematic coding; 2.2.3 'What's happening here?': The interview as speech activity; the interview analysis presented in Vignette 5. 2.2.4 Narratives and metaphors; 2.3 Observing practice: Watching knowledge in action; 2.4 EU interpreters' practice reified: Documents as reference points for action and discourse; 2.5 Presenting data; 2.6 Reflexivity; Part 2. Findings; Vignette 3. Nomads of the institutions

3.5.1.2 Not all booths are equal: Pivot and retour interpreters and booths

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027258700

9789027267054