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Roderick Jones - Conference Interpreting - 9781900650571 - V9781900650571
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Conference Interpreting

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Description for Conference Interpreting Paperback. .

Roderick Jones adopts a very practical approach to both consecutive and simultaneous interpreting, providing detailed illustrations of note-taking, reformulation, the 'salami' technique, simplification, generalization, anticipation, and so on, including numerous tricks-of-the-trade such as how to handle difficult speakers and how to interpret untranslatable jokes. Numerous examples are offered at every stage, all in English or 'foreignized' English.

Although primarily written as a practitioner's explanation rather than a theorist's speculation, the book includes notes on concepts such as units of meaning, translation units and discourse structure, as well as stances on more polemical issues such as the use of omission and the ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
St Jerome Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
156
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Translation Practices Explained
Condition
New
Number of Pages
148
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781900650571
SKU
V9781900650571
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3

Reviews for Conference Interpreting
... a down-to-earth, straightforward book which describes what happens on the job and offers useful advise on technique. I would not hasitate to recommend it to students of interpreting. (Janet Altman, ITI Bulletin)

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