Revisiting the interpreter's role : a study of conference, court, and medical interpreters in Canada, Mexico, and the United States /
Through the development of a valid and reliable instrument, this book sets out to study the role that interpreters play in the various settings where they work, i.e. the courts, the hospitals, business meetings, international conferences, and schools. It presents interpreters' perceptions and b...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins,
©2004.
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Colección: | Benjamins translation library ;
v. 55. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Through the development of a valid and reliable instrument, this book sets out to study the role that interpreters play in the various settings where they work, i.e. the courts, the hospitals, business meetings, international conferences, and schools. It presents interpreters' perceptions and beliefs about their work as well as statements of their behaviors about their practice. For the first time, the administration and results of a survey administered across languages in Canada, Mexico and the United States offer the reader a glimpse of the interpreters' views in their own words. It also dis. |
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Notas: | Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation, Stanford University, 2001. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 125 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-122) and index. |
ISBN: | 9789027295224 9027295220 9781588115652 1588115658 9789027216717 9027216711 |
ISSN: | 0929-7316 ; |