Revisiting the Interpreter's Role

A study of conference, court, and medical interpreters in Canada, Mexico, and the United States


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Claudia V. Angelelli

San Diego State University

Benjamins Translation Library 55

2004. xvi, 127 pp.

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1 58811 565 8 / USD 108.00
90 272 1671 1 / EUR 90.00

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Through the development of a valid and reliable instrument, this book sets out to study the role that interpreters play in the various settings where they work, i.e. the courts, the hospitals, business meetings, international conferences, and schools. It presents interpreters¡¯ perceptions and beliefs about their work as well as statements of their behaviors about their practice. For the first time, the administration and results of a survey administered across languages in Canada, Mexico and the United States offer the reader a glimpse of the interpreters' views in their own words. It also discusses the tension between professional ideology and the reality of interpreters at work. This book has implications for the theory and practice of interpreting across settings.


Table of contents

Acknowledgments xi
List of tables xiii
List of figures  xiv 
List of abbreviations  xv 
Prologue 1
1. Overview of the field  7
2. Opening up the circle 27
3. The construction of the Interpreter Interpersonal Role Inventory (IPRI)  47
4. Interpreter Interpersonal Role Inventory: Administration and results 63 
5. Expanding perspectives 83
Appendix 1. IPRI Final Version 101
Appendix 2. Organizations surveyed for different settings 106 
Appendix 3. Letter from AIIC, U.S. Respondent #16 107
Notes  111
References  115

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