Essays on conference interpreting / James Nolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nolan, James, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence and legal reasoning.

Congresses and conventions--Translating services.

Congresses and conventions.

Simultaneous interpreting.

Language and culture.

Translating and interpreting.

Translating and interpreting--Study and teaching.

Translating and interpreting--Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 165 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Multilingual Matters, 2020

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book condenses the important lessons learned at key points during the author’s 30-year career as an intergovernmental conference interpreter and trainer, seeking to define what constitutes good interpreting and how to develop the skills and abilities that are conducive to it, as well as fostering practices and technologies that help to maintain high professional standards. The book places interpreting in its historical context as a time-honoured discipline and discusses the effect of modern technology on translating and interpreting, identifying areas where it is most useful (electronic communications media, broadcasting) while stressing that professional education and training of linguists are more important than reliance on technological shortcuts. The book is an invaluable resource to all those working or training in conference interpreting, as well as being a stimulating read for those engaged in the wider work of interpreting.

Contents:

Preface

1. Interpreting in the Global Arena

2. Analyzing a Speech

3. Translatability and Untranslatability in Interpreting

4. A Primer for Interpreting Trainees

5. An Overview of Interpreting Skills

6. Protocol and Etiquette of Interpreting

7. Situations: Ethical and Practical Considerations

8. The Status of English in The European Union and as a World Language

9. Interview with James Nolan

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781788928014

1788928016

9781788928007

1788928008

OCLC:

1130319428