Roda P. Roberts

List of John Benjamins publications in which Roda P. Roberts is involved.

Titles

The Critical Link 2: Interpreters in the Community. Selected papers from the Second International Conference on Interpreting in legal, health and social service settings, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 19–23 May 1998

Edited by Roda P. Roberts, Silvana E. Carr, Diana Abraham and Aideen Dufour

This volume of selected papers from the second Critical Link conference (Vancouver, 1998) shows a marked evolution in Community Interpreting (CI) since the first Critical Link conference of 1995. In the intervening three years the field has advanced from pioneering to professionalization in… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 31] 2000. vii, 316 pp.

The Critical Link: Interpreters in the Community: Papers from the 1st international conference on interpreting in legal, health and social service settings, Geneva Park, Canada, 1–4 June 1995

Edited by Silvana E. Carr, Roda P. Roberts, Aideen Dufour and Dini Steyn

What is community interpreting? What are the roles of the community interpreter? What are the standards, evaluation methods and accreditation procedures pertaining to community interpreting? What training is available or required in this field? What are the current issues and practices in community… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 19] 1997. viii, 322 pp.

Articles (12) | Order by:

López Arroyo, Belén, Roda P. Roberts and Leticia Moreno Pérez 2019 The use of - ing and - ndo forms in sales contracts: An English-Spanish contrastive analysis Languages in Contrast 19:2, pp. 256–279 | Article

This paper analyzes the use of the -ing and -ndo forms in English and Spanish in sales contracts. More specifically, it aims to answer three questions: 1. Do the -ing and the -ndo forms occur more frequently in sales contracts than in general language? 2. Do English sales contracts contain more… read more

López Arroyo, Belén and Roda P. Roberts 2016 Differences in wine tasting notes in English and Spanish Babel 62:3, pp. 370–401 | Article

Since the early 2000s, a number of researchers have devoted themselves to the study of wine language and discourse, and especially the genre of wine tasting notes. They have analyzed various aspects of tasting notes: their rhetorical structure, their terminology, their use of metaphors, among… read more

López Arroyo, Belén and Roda P. Roberts 2015 Unusual sentence structure in wine tasting notes: A contrastive corpus-based study Languages in Contrast 15:2, pp. 162–180 | Article

Certain sentence structures occur more frequently than others in specialized texts. The vast majority of sentences in the English of both science and technology seem to be declarative in nature, while imperative sentences, which are the normal method of expressing instructions, occur far more… read more

Roberts, Roda P. 2015 Review of Schäffner, Kredens & Fowler (2013): Interpreting in a changing landscape: Selected papers from Critical Link 6 Interpreting 17:1, pp. 124–132 | Review

López Arroyo, Belén and Roda P. Roberts 2014 English and Spanish descriptors in wine tasting terminology Terminology 20:1, pp. 25–49 | Article

Wine tasting notes constitute a specialized genre in the field of Oenology, with their own rhetoric and language. However, the language of wine tasting notes is by no means as specialized as that of most other specialized genres. Indeed, while there are dozens of terms used to describe and evaluate… read more

Roberts, Roda P. 2011 Review of Angelelli & Jacobson (2009): Testing and assessment in translation and interpreting studies Aptitude for Interpreting, Shlesinger, Miriam † and Franz Pöchhacker (eds.), pp. 143–148 | Review

Roberts, Roda P. 2007 Dictionaries and culture Dictionary Visions, Research and Practice: Selected papers from the 12th International Symposium on Lexicography, Copenhagen 2004, Gottlieb, Henrik and Jens Erik Mogensen (eds.), pp. 277–297 | Article

Roberts, Roda P. 2002 Community interpreting: A profession in search of its identity Teaching Translation and Interpreting 4: Building bridges, Hung, Eva (ed.), pp. 157–175 | Article

Roberts, Roda P. 2000 Interpreter Assessment Tools for Different Settings The Critical Link 2: Interpreters in the Community, Roberts, Roda P., Silvana E. Carr, Diana Abraham and Aideen Dufour (eds.), pp. 103–120 | Article

Roberts, Roda P. 1997 Community interpreting today and tomorrow The Critical Link: Interpreters in the Community: Papers from the 1st international conference on interpreting in legal, health and social service settings, Geneva Park, Canada, 1–4 June 1995, Carr, Silvana E., Roda P. Roberts, Aideen Dufour and Dini Steyn (eds.), pp. 7–28 | Article

Roberts, Roda P. 1992 The Concept of Function of Translation and its Application to Literary Texts Target 4:1, pp. 1–16 | Article

Many translation theorists have adopted a functional approach to translation in an attempt to guide and explain the difficult choices a translator must make. This paper argues that it is the function of the translation, and not the functions of language or the function of the source text, that is… read more

Roberts, Roda P. and Marilyn Tayler 1990 Development of legal interpreter education in New Jersey Interpreting: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, Bowen, David and Margareta Bowen (eds.), pp. 70–80 | Article