THEORY AND PRACTICE OF INTERPRETING

Catalog description

(Slashed with TRST 50009 ) Survey of the theory and practice of unimodal (spoken word) interpreting in its multiple contexts: conference, medical, judicial, liaison, and media interpreting, with an emphasis on community interpreting. Stakeholders, discourses, modalities, and environments; characteristics of interpreted speech; identities and intervenient roles of interpreters (coordinators, co-participants, diplomats); professionalization and ‘volunteerization’; ethics and protocols; research paradigms and future directions; quality and assessment; legal frameworks and language policy; histories of interpreting. Pedagogies of dialogue interpreting [process, interactive, demand-control schema; cognitive and effort models]; memory; technologies; terminology. Course conducted in English.