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Corpus-based interpreting studies and public service interpreting and translation training programs: the case of interpreters working in gender violence contexts Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The growing popularity of Public Service Interpreting and Translation (PSIT) in different fields, such as healthcare or legal environments, has highlighted the need for interlingual and intercultural communication between public service providers and users who do not have any or sufficient command of the official language of the public authorities. Training is essential in those settings if we want to successfully achieve the appropriate ...
Getting organized to beat Babel in multilingual service encounters: The European Network for Public Service Interpreting and Translation KU Leuven
People are on the move, coming in from beyond the borders of the European Union and circulating within it. Our major cities in particular are rapidly becoming “super-diverse” communities with many different (cultural) minorities. Many immigrant groups are, at least in the initial phase of their residence in a new community, often unable to communicate effectively in the official language. This poses important challenges for public service ...
On the use of technologies in public service interpreting and translation settings Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Technology has a far-reaching impact on every aspect of professional translation and interpreting. Technological advances are bringing about new possibilities for providing these services to different types of clients but are at the same time also causing new challenges or even raising some concerns (e.g. with respect to quality) in certain areas of translation and interpreting. The aim of this study is to gain a deeper understanding of what ...
Public service interpreting in social care Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this chapter, we consider social care as the provision of help, care and protection from harm to people who need additional support. This support can take a wide variety of forms and is often carried out informally by relatives, but here we primarily focus on variants of social care that occur within institutional contexts and we zoom in on situations in which the presence of an interpreter is required. These situations have thus far not ...
The influence of governmental policy on public service interpreting in the Netherlands Universiteit Antwerpen
In the Netherlands, the government has become involved in public service interpreting by issuing measures shaping the professional conditions for interpreters and by monitoring the quality of their services. Under the Sworn Interpreters and Translators Act (2007) a register was set up for interpreters who meet predefined requirements for "basic interpreter competencies". According to the 2007 Act, institutions in the legal domain as well as in ...
Political Ideology and de Deprofessionalisation of Public Service Interpreting: The Netherlands and the United Kingdom as Case Studies KU Leuven
Translation and interpreting in public services can have an enormous impact on the daily lives of individuals, as they allow access to hospitals, police stations, courts and other public institutions. In these circumstances, the presence (or absence) of an interpreter can really make the difference between freedom and captivity, between life and death. However, due to recent social and economic changes in the European Union, a few Member States ...
What starting public service interpreters in the EU should know about legislation : the case of Belgium and the Netherlands Universiteit Gent
Abstract : The interpreting profe ssion weaves its way through a tangled web of legal provi sions. Especially in the areas of immigration, the court, the p olice or social services, third - party rights p lay an important role, and language assistance is needed to act following the law . Freelance i nterpreters are contracted. These interpreters have opt ed for entrepreneurship and private - law relation ships with their clients. T he public - ...