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In:Non-professional Interpreting and Translation: State of the art and future of an emerging field of research
Edited by Rachele Antonini, Letizia Cirillo, Linda Rossato and Ira Torresi
[Benjamins Translation Library 129] 2017
► pp. 131–155

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Chapter 7
Issues of terminology in public service interpreting

From affordability through psychotherapy to waiting lists

Published online: 19 June 2017
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on interpreter-mediated institutional encounters and specialist language. Based on Niska’s (1998a; 1998b) and Valero-Garcés’(2005) taxonomies of strategies for translating specialist terminology, the author analyses instances of specialist language in a corpus of recordings of institutional encounters, and discusses which strategies are used by the interpreters to render specialist terms. The data were collected between 2007 and 2009 as part of an interdisciplinary project called “Community Interpreting and Communication Quality in Social Service and Healthcare Institutions.”
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Public service interpreting and the language of institutional encounters
  • 3.Terminology in translation and interpreting studies
  • 4.Terminology in public service interpreting
  • 5.Empirical study: Specialist terminology in public service encounters
    • 5.1Project synopsis: Interpreting in social service and welfare institutions
    • 5.2Methods
    • 5.3Project results
    • 5.4Taxonomy of strategies
    • 5.5Examples of specialist language
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
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