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Community or Public Service Interpreting (PSI) describe the linguistic mediation allowing speakers of the societal language to communicate with linguistic minorities, granting the latter access to services on grounds of equal rights. Although the role of community interpreters has been crucial throughout the evolution of human civilization, this branch
Iliescu Gheorghiu, Catalina
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Community interpreting norms and research have been heavily influenced by a Western-centric community of practitioners and an individualist, positivist philosophy.
Agustina Marianacci
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As some interpreters reproduce speeches that last up to fifteen minutes, they can’t rely on memory alone so they have, so they have to develop skills in note-taking.
The National Network for Interpreting Project, NNI
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Conference and community interpreting
This chapter discusses the commonalities and differences between spoken language conference and community interpreting. The aim is to describe the common core of these two fields of activity, often treated as two different professions. The chapter starts
Elisabet Tiselius, Tiselius, Elisabet,
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Communication and interpretation of risk [PDF]
The 'new genetics' enables people's risk status for many diseases and disorders to be assessed much more accurately than before, yet considerable uncertainty remains over how risk information will be evaluated and acted upon. This paper summarises some of the main themes of psychological research on risk.
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In Search of the Essential Competences for Overcoming Language Barriers in Public Services
It is argued in the article that despite the relatively strong presence of English in Slovenia, the use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) alone does not guarantee access to quality public services.
Tamara Mikolič Južnič, Nike K. Pokorn
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Responding to the 21st-century migration challenge: Community interpreting in the European periphery
This article explains the thematic focus of the current special issue, a collection of contributions that deal on macro and meso levels with the evolution of community interpreting services in the 2010s and early 2020s in what could be considered the ...
Jonathan Maurice Ross +1 more
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Can Computer-assisted Interpreting Tools Assist Interpreting? [PDF]
This experimental study explores how a potential computer-assisted interpreting tool affects consecutive interpreters’ performance in accuracy and fluency and their cognitive process during interpreting. It consists of an experiment with ten participants
Wang, C., Wang, X.
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During the past ten years, public service interpreting (PSI) has become a flourishing field of research. Different kinds of studies have explored issues such as the role of public service interpreters, accuracy and deviations in their renditions, or ...
Mireia Vargas-Urpi
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Communities of Interpretation : The Case of the Qur’an
This article discusses “Communities of the Qur’an,” a conference,public talk, and forthcoming book that will examine the Qur’an’s“communities of interpretation.” They are represented by ten worldrenownedacademics and leaders from the Sunni, Shi‘i, and Ahmadicommunities; reformist LGBT, feminist, African American, andQur’an-only groups; as well as non ...
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