Dialogue Interpreting ─ A guide to interpreting in public services and the community

Routledge Interpreting Guides cover the key settings or domains of interpreting and equip trainee interpreters and students of interpreting with the skills needed in each area of the field. Concise, accessible and written by leading authorities, they include examples from existing interpreting practice, activities, further reading suggestions and a glossary of key terms.

Dialogue Interpreting helps students of interpreting and practising interpreters to navigate their way through what is fast becoming the very expansive field of dialogue interpreting by illuminating current practices in more traditional domains, as well as providing insight into new areas in which needs of language brokerage are only beginning to be identified, such as education, social care and faith.

This work foregrounds the importance of norms while recognizing the need for practitioners to make judgements based on advanced, research-informed knowledge of domain-specific protocols, practices and language use and apply them to their own professional experiences. Contextualized examples are provided to allow readers an opportunity to evaluate approaches in relation to their particular geo-national contexts of practice.

With a glossary of key terms and pointers to resources for further development, this guide helps readers to research, develop and improve interpreter mediation skills across a range of practice settings and better understand service users’ perspectives on interpreted events. Activities are provided for use either in-class, or as self-guided or collaborative learning and are supplemented by additional materials on the Routledge Translation Studies Portal.

This is an essential guidebook for practising interpreters and all students of interpreting within advanced undergraduate and postgraduate/graduate programmes in Translation and Interpreting Studies, Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics.