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Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor’s remarks 1
4. Section I: The history of interpreting
5. Summary history of language services in the U.S. department of state 8
6. Working conditions at the Nuremberg Trials 14
7. The life of a diplomatic interpreter 23
8. History and role of interpreting in africa 34
9. Diplomatic interpreting in Czechoslovakia 37
10. Section II: Interpreter training
11. The sense of situation in conference interpeting 40
12. The importance of sight translation in an interpreter training program 44
13. The role of cognitive complements in interpreting 53
14. Curriculum Review at the ISIT (Mexico City) 61
15. Secion III: Court interpreting
16. Development of legal interpreter education in New Jersey 70
17. How american court view defendants’ rights to interpreters 81
18. The challenge for the court interpreter in Southern Florida 91
19. The intricate Witness-interpreter relationship 96
20. Interpretation at the Demjanjuk Trial 101
21. Court interpreting in a multiracial society — the malaysian experience 108
22. Section IV: Community interpreting
23. Interpreting in multicultural settings 117
24. Interpreters and social workers 122
25. Community interpreting in the curriculum 131
26. Consecutive note-taking for community interpretation 136
27. Community interpreting in Australia 146
28. Section V: Future Developments
29. Some thoughts on the evaluation of simultaneous interpretation 154
30. Should conference interpreters specialize? 161
31. Overcoming language barriers in european television 168
32. Contributors 176
33. Call for proposals 178
34. Corporate members 179
35. Institutional members 182
36. American translators association officers and board of directors 184