Simultaneous conference interpreting and technology

Diriker, Ebru

doi:10.1075/hts.1.sim1

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“…However, the objective assessment of interpretation quality is difficult (Becerra & Aís, 2019;Kalina, 2005). Although it is suggested that interpretation quality depends on the context of the interpreting assignment (Diriker, 2021;Kalina, 2005;Pöchhacker, 1994;Zwischenberger, 2011) there is no common agreement among practitioners on how to define quality (Kahane, 2000;Shlesinger, 1997).…”

Section: Quality Assurance In Conference Interpretingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quality assurance in international sign conference interpreting at international organisations

Wit

Crasborn

Napier

2023

The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Resea

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Quality assurance (QA) in conference interpreting is considered essential among international organisations1 and interpreting practitioners (Pöchhacker, 1994). The need for QA resulted in the establishment of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) and the development of university degree programmes in conference interpreting in spoken languages worldwide (Seeber, 2021). International organisations such as the United Nations and the European Union (EU) work closely with universities worldwide to ensure that interpreters are trained and assessed in line with their requirements. Sign language conference interpreters working with International Sign (IS) do not have equivalent opportunities to be trained and assessed as their spoken language colleagues, with whom they work for international organisations. Therefore, to assure that those who deliver IS conference interpretation services are up to quality standards, the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) and the World Association of Sign Language Interpreters (WASLI) established an accreditation system for IS interpreters in 2015. As of June 2021, thirty IS interpreters had obtained the corresponding accreditation. In this article we examine the 2021 QA system for IS conference interpreters and present findings from our 2019 global survey of the perspectives of IS conference interpreters (de Wit et al., 2021) in combination with a follow-up study on practitioners’ training and accreditation needs. The results indicate that there is a demand for formal professional training programmes that focus on interpreting IS in conference settings and a need to enhance the current accreditation system.

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Section: Quality Assurance In Conference Interpretingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quality assurance in international sign conference interpreting at international organisations

Wit

Crasborn

Napier

2023

The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Resea

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“…Although interpreting research that follows seminal works by, among others, Metzger (1999), Roy (2000), Angelelli (2004), and Wadensjö (1998) has debunked the idea that interpreters do not make a series of active decisions in an interpreted event, Diriker (2011) and Downie (2017) claim that the idea “that interpreters possess their own agency, separate from that of either speaker, is still hard to find in professional discourse” (Downie, 2017, p. 267). While the observation that legal and organisational aspects contextualise the work of sign language interpreters could seem mundane within the study of professions, the very assertion that interpreters have a legal mandate that more or less ties them to only one (side) of their primary participants 1 could be at odds with their strict impartiality, which also is a core tenet in interpreters’ professional code of ethics worldwide (Kermit, 2004; Pöchhacker, 2016; Skaaden, 2013).…”

Section: The Organisational Context Of Sign Language Interpreters’ Workmentioning

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“…In addition to being professional language workers defined by their impartiality, sign language interpreters can also be considered street-level bureaucrats in the sense that they “interact with citizens in the course of the job and have discretion in exercising authority” (Lipsky, 2010, xvii). Interpreters’ active participation in the situations they work in is well documented (Diriker, 2011; Downie, 2017, 2020; Metzger, 1999; Pöchhacker, 2012; Roy, 2000; Wadensjö, 1998), but many sign language interpreters are also professionals who work on behalf of institutions or bureaucratic organisations within a system of division of labour (Abbott, 1988; Lipsky, 2010). Sign language interpreters’ mandate as professionals working on behalf of a bureaucratic organisation (the sign language interpreting service provider) is the focus of this article.…”

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confidence: 99%

Licence to inform: Norwegian sign language interpreters in a bureaucratic organisation

Haualand

2023

Interpreting and Society

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This article discusses how Norwegian sign language interpreters reflect on the discrepancy between (a) being defined professionally by their impartiality on behalf of all participants in an interpreted event, while they (b) work for a service organisation that ultimately defines sign language interpreting services as a measure to “enhance functioning” for deaf and hard of hearing people. Interviews with sign language interpreters show that their institutional affiliation to a large bureaucratic organisation influences how they reflect on their potential scope of action as interpreters. The article suggests that without a conscious and continuous discussion about the tension between being educated and defined as impartial language workers while also working for an organisation with a mandate to assist deaf or hard of hearing people, sign language interpreters may be caught in a process where they struggle to define their profession and are thus reverted to a preprofessional status as deaf peoples’ “helpers.”

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“…Conference Interpreters UK argues that the ratio of female to male interpreters worldwide is about 3 to 1 (CIUK Interpreters, 2018). Nevertheless, up to now, there are a few studies as to how the interpreters stand out and represented in the media among the others, being Diriker (2003) and Cho (2017a). Even less studies were conducted, focusing only on female interpreters.…”

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The Highlighted Traits of Female Interpreters as Represented in the Media and Scientific Articles

Yetkin Karakoç

2023

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The issue of female interpreting is underresearched in literature. Of the limited studies, there are some studies which focus on one linguistic aspect of the female interpreters as well those which focus on a nonlinguistic aspect in comparison to male interpreters. This study aims to give an overall view on how they appear in media and scientific articles. It was conducted on the basis of an analysis of the hits of some keywords: gender, interpreting, female interpreting, female interpreters and their Turkish counterparts. As a result of the study, these traits are identified as linguistic traits, physical traits and identity, elegance as part of stance and the same-gender advantage. They collectively show that the established prejudices against women prevail. The specified classifications made for the purposes of this study are primarily for ease of analysis, and surely open to new items to be added by the further developments in the sociological climate accompanied by resultant scholarly studies. ÖZÇeviribilim alanyazını özelinde kadın çevirmenler konusu pek ele alınmış bir konu değildir. Sınırlı çalışmalar ya erkek çevirmenlerle kıyaslandığında kadın çevirmenlerin gösterdiği bir dilsel özelliği, ya da dilsel olmayan bir yönü ele almıştır. Bu çalışma ise medyada yer bulan ve bilimsel araştırmalarda incelenen kadın çevirmenlerin genel olarak nasıl ön plana çıktıklarını mercek altına almaktadır. Çalışma bulguları internet üzerinde arama motorlarına hem İngilizce hem Türkçe olarak toplumsal cinsiyet, sözlü çeviri, sözlü çeviri yapan kadınlar, kadın çevirmenler vb. sözcükleri girilerek elde edilmiştir. Araştırma sonucunda öne çıkan özelliklerin genel olarak bakıldığında dilsel özellikler, fiziksel özellikler ve kimlik, kişisel kendini sunumun bir parçası olarak zarafet ve aynı cinsiyetten olmanın getirdiği avantajlar olarak saptanmıştır. Bütün olarak değerlendirildiğinde, kadınlara karşı yerleşik olarak halihazırda var olan ön yargıların bu konuda da hüküm sürdüğü dikkati çekmektedir. Bu araştırma kapsamında yapılan sınıflandırma yalnızca çözümleme kolaylığı için gerçekleştirilmiş olup, sosyolojik iklimin değişmesi ve bunun sonucunda yürütülecek daha sonraki araştırmalar ile yapılabilecek olası eklemelere açıktır.

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Simultaneous conference interpreting and technology

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Quality assurance in international sign conference interpreting at international organisations

Quality assurance in international sign conference interpreting at international organisations

Licence to inform: Norwegian sign language interpreters in a bureaucratic organisation

The Highlighted Traits of Female Interpreters as Represented in the Media and Scientific Articles

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