The critical link 4 professionalisation of interpreting in the community : selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Interpreting in Legal, Health and Social Service Settings, Stockholm, Sweden, 20-23 May 2004 (J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The Critical Link 4; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; References; Foreword: Interpreting professions, professionalisation, ; I. Critical linking up; II. Interpreters on duty in interaction: Studies of micro dynamics; III. Interpreters in the community: Studies of macro dynamics; IV. Developing local standards; V. Professional ideology: Food for thought; VI. Improving and assessingprofessional skills: Training initiatives and programmes; Index; The series Benjamins Translation Library
This book is a collection of papers presented in Stockholm, at the fourth Critical Link conference. The book is a well-balanced mix of academic research and texts of a more practical, professional character. The introducing article explicitly addresses the issue of professionalism and how this has been dealt with in research on interpreting. The following two sections provide examples of recent research, applying various theoretical approaches. Section four reports on the development of current, more or less local standards. Section five raises issues of professional ideology. The final section