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Problems and strategies in public service interpreting as perceived by a sample of Chinese-Catalan/Spanish interpreters

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: Problems and strategies have been widely discussed in Translation and Interpreting Studies, but they have received scarce attention in the field of Public Service Interpreting (PSI). On the basis of interviews with 20 public service interpreters working in the Chinese-Catalan/Spanish combination, this article analyses their answers in relation to the problems and difficulties they usually encounter, which are classified into two categories: word level and discourse level. Different ideas on curriculum design and training approaches are suggested and discussed on the basis of this analysis, while also considering that most interpreters had not received formal training in PSI at the moment of the interviews.

Source: Perspectives

DOI: 10.1080/0907676x.2015.1069861

Author: Mireia Vargas-Urpi

Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Language: English

Topic: Translation Studies and Practices

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

Funder: Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca