1. Introduction. Quality in interpreting

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. 1. Introduction. Quality in interpreting 1
5. Part I. A shared responsibility
6. 2. Forensic interpreting 13
7. 3. The tension between adequacy and acceptability in legal interpreting and translation 37
8. 4. A discourse of danger and loss 55
9. 5. Is healthcare interpreter policy left in the seventies? 71
10. Part II. Investigations and innovations in quality interpreting
11. 6. Interpreter ethics versus customary law 85
12. 7. A shared responsibility in the administration of justice 99
13. 8. Interpreting for the record 119
14. 9. Court interpreting in Basque 135
15. 10. Community interpreting in Spain 149
16. Part III. Pedagogy, ethics and responsibility in interpreting
17. 11. Toward more reliable assessment of interpreting performance 171
18. 12. Quality in healthcare interpreter training 187
19. 13. What can interpreters learn from discourse studies? 201
20. 14. Achieving quality in health care interpreting 221
21. 15. Research ethics, interpreters and biomedical research 235
22. Contributors 251
23. Index 253