The critical link : interpreters in the community : papers from the First International Conference on Interpreting in Legal, Health, and Social Service Settings (Geneva Park, Canada, June 1-4, 1995 / edited by Silvana E. Carr [and others].

Selected rev. papers from the conference.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-308) and index.

Foreword: A Landmark in the Evolution of Interpreting -- Community Interpreting Today and Tomorrow -- The Role of the Interpreter in the Adversarial Courtroom -- Recycled Information as a Questioning Strategy: Pitfalls in Interpreter-Mediated Talk -- Orientation Workshops for Interpreters of All Languages: How to strike a balance between the ideal world and reality -- Training the Community Interpreter: The Nunavut Arctic College Experience -- Training Needs of Public Personnel Working with Interpreters -- The Challenges of Setting and Monitoring the Standards of Community Interpreting: An Australian Perspective -- Community Interpreting or Not? Practices, Standards and Accreditation -- Accreditation in Australia: An Alternative Means -- Obtaining Feedback from Non-English Speakers -- Degree of Interpreter Responsibility in the Interaction Process in Community Interpreting -- Interpreting for Health in the United States: Government Partnership with Communities, Interpreters, and Providers -- Legal Interpreting by Any Other Name Is Still Legal Interpreting -- The Courtroom Interpreter: Paragon and Intruder? -- The Interpreter on Trial: Pragmatics in Court Interpreting -- "Is There Anybody Out There?" Community Interpreting in Austria -- Schoolchildren as Community Interpreters -- Training College Students as Community Interpreters: An Innovative Model -- UN Military Observer Interpreting in a Community Setting -- Court Interpretation in Denmark -- A Three-Tiered Health Care Interpreter System -- Rhetoric and Reality: Two Decades of Community Interpreting and Translating in Australia -- Works Cited -- Index.

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