Interpretation: Techniques and Exercises

✍ Scribed by James Nolan

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a syllabus, overview and exercises in the main aspects of interpretation. It can serve as a practical guide for interpreters and as a complement to interpreter training programs, in the classroom and online, particularly for students preparing for interpreting in international governmental and business settings.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction: Frequently Asked Questions
1. Speaking
2. Preparation/Anticipating the Speaker
3. Complex Syntax/Compression
4. Word Order/Clusters
5. General Adverbial Clauses
6. Untranslatability
7. Figures of Speech
8. Argumentation
9. Diction/Register
10. Formal Style
11. A Policy Address
12. Quotations/Allusions/ Transposition
13. Political Discourse
14. Economic Discourse
15. Humor
16. Latinisms
17. Numbers
18. Note-taking
Annex I: Additional Reformulation Strategies
Annex II: Memory Drill
Annex III: Patterns in Speech
Annex IV: Political Discourse – Additional Exercise
Bibliography
Index