The Critical Link 2: Interpreters in the Community. Selected papers from the Second International Conference on Interpreting in legal, health and ... May 1998: 31 (Benjamins Translation Library) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027216363 ISBN 13: 9789027216366

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2000

Synopsis

This volume of selected papers from the second Critical Link conference (Vancouver, 1998) shows a marked evolution in Community Interpreting (CI) since the first Critical Link conference of 1995. In the intervening three
years the field has advanced from pioneering to professionalization in response to new social needs created by the influx of immigrants into the developed countries, or by an awakened sensitivity to the rights of those countries’ aboriginal peoples. Most of the papers discuss professionalization in terms of standards, tests and examinations; training; accreditation; and professional organizations that establish and administer professional standards. The collection reveals similar concerns about these issues throughout the world and a global focus on ‘standards’.
With a Foreword by Brian Harris.

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Synopsis

This volume of selected papers discusses the professionalization in terms of standards, tests and examinations, training, accreditation, and professional organizations that establish and administer standards within the interpreter community.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027216363
• ISBN 13: 9789027216366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Roberts Roda P., Carr Silvana E., Abraham Diana, Dufour Aideen