Challenges and Opportunities in Public Service Interpreting
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Description for Challenges and Opportunities in Public Service Interpreting
Hardback. Editor(s): Munyangeyo, Theophile; Webb, Graham; Rabadan-Gomez, Marina. Num Pages: 259 pages, 4 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFB; CFP; JKS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
Public Service Interpreting is a hugely complex activity, encompassing human, ethical, commercial and political dimensions. It is unseen and unrecognized by most of the population but vital to those who depend on it for their security or wellbeing. The quality of PSI provision is seen by the authors as a clear indicator of how a society views and responds to the realities of a multi-ethnic and multilingual global community. Following recent significant changes in the power balance between them this book explores the increasing tensions among multiple stakeholders who together deliver such a fundamental service in a modern open society. ... Read more
Public Service Interpreting is a hugely complex activity, encompassing human, ethical, commercial and political dimensions. It is unseen and unrecognized by most of the population but vital to those who depend on it for their security or wellbeing. The quality of PSI provision is seen by the authors as a clear indicator of how a society views and responds to the realities of a multi-ethnic and multilingual global community. Following recent significant changes in the power balance between them this book explores the increasing tensions among multiple stakeholders who together deliver such a fundamental service in a modern open society. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
468 g
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137449993
SKU
V9781137449993
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99-1
About Munyangeyo
Dr Theophile Munyangeyo is Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University. With extensive teaching experience involving semantics, pragmatics, communication theories and models, translation and Consecutive Interpreting, he is a Higher Education Academy Senior Fellow. He is the Course Leader for Public Service Interpreting provision, member of editorial boards of international journals and PhD research supervisor in language learning and teaching. ... Read more
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