Community interpreting: A profession in search of its identity

Benjamins Translation Library

Volumn 42, Issue , 2002, Pages 157-175

  Roberts, Roda P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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EID: 85106647464     PISSN: 09297316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1075/btl.42.20rob     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. For other examples of community interpreting in the Middle Ages, see Stelling-Michaud 1952: vii-viii.
2. In 1983, the Institute of Linguists' Educational Trust set up the Community Interpreter Project to establish a code of ethics, training and qualifying examinations for community interpreters.
3. This is counterbalanced by a speciWc reference in the PSI standards to interpreters working in legal settings (requirement for the interpreter to indicate in a criminal trial if he has been involved in interpreting at the police station on the same case).