The Interpreter, the Monitor and the Language Arbiter*

Takeda, Kayoko

doi:10.7202/037675ar

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“…In the socio-political context, when a party in power has to rely on interpreters who do not have shared interest or affiliation, the party may set up a system to regulate and control the interpreters out of concerns over their trustworthiness. Takeda (2009) concludes that "trustworthiness of the interpreter overrides the quality of interpreting". This led to the shared belief in the interpreter's commitment to neutrality as surrogate marker of trust (Snellman, 2016) and, by inference, a surrogate marker for quality.…”

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Help or hinder? The Impact of Technology on the Role of Interpreters

Liu

2018

FITISPos-IJ

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The role of the professional interpreter, seemingly timeless and universal is to convey verbal communications from one language to another accurately, in confidence and with impartiality. These principles appear to have been valid since the dawn of cross-cultural and interlingual verbal communications. Why should technology have an impact on the professional role, which is both agreed by professional interpreters, and expected by clients? This paper outlines, through literature review, of both Sign and Spoken language settings, the development of the role of interpreters across different settings and the deontology for the interpreting profession over time. This is then superimposed with the effect of technology, both its facilitation and pressures on its practice. The result highlights the intersection between interpreting studies and technology away from curriculum development. Rather than adopting technology wholesale, practitioners and researchers ought to become more aware of this increasingly important aspect and take appropriate actions.Resumen: El papel del intérprete profesional, que pareciera ser eterno y universal, se basa en transmitir enunciados verbales de un idioma a otro de forma precisa, confidencial e imparcial. A estos principios se los ha considerado válidos desde los albores de la comunicación interlingüística e intercultural. ¿Por qué debería la tecnología impactar en un papel profesional sobre el que los intérpretes coinciden y que los clientes esperan? Mediante el análisis de publicaciones desarrolladas en el campo de las lenguas habladas y de la lengua de signos, este artículo intenta describir cómo evolucionan la función del intérprete en diferentes escenarios y la deontología de su profesión a lo largo del tiempo. A ello se le superponen posteriormente los efectos de la tecnología, tanto en la forma en la que esta facilita la práctica profesional como en las presiones que se generan de su uso. El resultado enfatiza la intersección entre los estudios en interpretación y tecnologías fuera del ámbito del desarrollo curricular. En lugar de adoptar la tecnología indiscriminadamente, los intérpretes y los investigadores quizá deberían prestar más atención a un aspecto de importancia creciente en la práctica profesional, así como adoptar medidas adecuadas.

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Help or hinder? The Impact of Technology on the Role of Interpreters

Liu

2018

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“…Nürnbergin sotaoikeudenkäynnissä toteutettu simultaanitulkkaus ja asiakirjakääntäminen on ollut sota-ajan konteksteista erityisasemassa (vrt. Kalverkämper & Schippel 2008), mihin verrattuna vastaava prosessi Japanissa (International Military Tribunal for the Far East) on saanut paljon vähemmän huomiota (Takeda 2009).…”

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Sota, käännöskulttuurit ja toimijuus

Kujamäki

2011

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In military encounters with the enemy or with brothers-in-arms, mediation practices with translation and interpreting (T&I) are developed that can be described as translation cultures. The concept was coined by Erich Prunc in 1997 to denote a set of socially determined norms, conventions, expectations and values that constrain the T&I activities in a given society or institution. Through this definition, Prunc’s concept creates a link to official language mediation policies as well as to personal agencies of those involved as interpreters and translators in the military operations on the front, in the headquarters or in the POW camps. After a short overview of available studies on this topic, this article offers first drafts of the military translation cultures in World War II in Finland. It draws on some of the most recent publications on the two Finnish military conflicts against the Soviet Union (the Winter War in 1939–1941 and the Continuation War in 1941–1944) and on preliminary research data from archived military records.

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The Changing Landscape of Translation and Interpreting Studies

Baker¹

2014

A Companion to Translation Studies

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The Interpreter, the Monitor and the Language Arbiter*

Cited by 7 publications

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Help or hinder? The Impact of Technology on the Role of Interpreters

Help or hinder? The Impact of Technology on the Role of Interpreters

Sota, käännöskulttuurit ja toimijuus

The Changing Landscape of Translation and Interpreting Studies

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