Note-Taking for Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course

✍ Scribed by Andrew Gillies

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Courseis the essential step-by-step guide to the skill of note-taking. The system, made up of a range of tried and tested techniques, is simple to learn, consistent and efficient. Each chapter presents a technique, with examples, tasks and exercises. This second edition has been extensively revised throughout, including:



an updated chapter on speech analysis



new chapters on comparisons and links



revised example speeches and notes



a summary of other authors' note-taking guidelines for comparison and reference (Part III).

The author uses English throughout - explaining how and where to locate material for other languages - thus providing a sound base for all those working in the areas of conference interpreting and consecutive interpreting in any language combination. This user-friendly guide is a particularly valuable resource for student interpreters, professionals looking to refresh their skills, and interpreter trainers looking for innovative ways of approaching note-taking.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
About the new edition......Page 13
PART I The basics step-by-step......Page 14
When is consecutive interpreting used?......Page 18
Community, liaison, medical and court interpreting......Page 19
About this book......Page 20
Note-taking for consecutive interpreting......Page 21
About the notes......Page 25
About the examples......Page 26
How to use the book......Page 27
Practice......Page 29
Miscellaneous......Page 30
1 Speech analysis......Page 33
Mind maps......Page 34
Sections......Page 38
Section diagrams......Page 42
Mini summaries......Page 45
What is an idea?......Page 50
Identifying ideas......Page 52
Subject, Verb, Object......Page 56
1. Note shorter synonyms......Page 64
2. Note a different SVO group with the same meaning......Page 68
3. Noting only two of the three elements in SVO......Page 69
4. Make several short sentences out of one long one......Page 71
4 Links......Page 73
Why are links important?......Page 74
Finding links......Page 75
Families of links......Page 77
Noting links......Page 80
Moving on . . .......Page 85
5 Verticality and hierarchies of values......Page 93
Parallel values 1......Page 94
Shifting values......Page 101
Parallel values 2......Page 105
Use of brackets......Page 107
What is a symbol?......Page 113
What to note with symbols......Page 114
Organic symbols......Page 118
How many symbols?......Page 122
Similar but not the same......Page 124
Structure reminds us of the obvious......Page 126
When what comes next is obvious......Page 129
Things right in front of you......Page 134
Note the simple for the complicated......Page 135
Stories and jokes......Page 136
It depends on what you already know......Page 138
8 What to note......Page 140
PART II Fine-tuning......Page 142
Reported speech......Page 144
Additional information......Page 146
2 Rules of abbreviation......Page 149
Plurals......Page 150
Phonetic spelling and misspelling......Page 151
Verb tenses......Page 152
Modal verbs......Page 153
Nouns as verbs......Page 154
4 The recall line......Page 156
Who?......Page 159
Structural elements......Page 161
Dates......Page 166
Anything important!......Page 168
Adding implicit links......Page 169
Dropping link words that aren’t links......Page 172
Though and although or but and however......Page 174
Temporal links......Page 176
One and the other......Page 178
Pairs......Page 179
Not only . . . but also......Page 180
8 Pro-forms......Page 183
Noting detail sooner......Page 185
Numbers......Page 186
Word order......Page 187
Noting detail later......Page 189
Noting lists......Page 190
Writing big and bigger......Page 191
Capital letters for proper names......Page 192
Phonetic spelling and misspelling......Page 193
Improvising symbols......Page 195
The exclamation mark......Page 197
Omissions......Page 201
Questions to the speaker......Page 202
The end of your notes......Page 205
PART III The back of the book......Page 208
1 Notes with commentary......Page 210
Speech 1 – Lumumba......Page 211
Speech 2 – Soros......Page 224
Speech 3 – McCulley......Page 231
Speech 4 – Hasanov......Page 239
Speech 5 – Tsujimura......Page 249
Chapter 1 Speech analysis......Page 260
Chapter 2 Recognizing and splitting ideas......Page 262
Chapter 4 Links......Page 263
Chapter 5 Verticality and hierarchies of values......Page 266
3 The examples......Page 273
4 Where to find practice material......Page 278
Rozan......Page 280
Seleskovitch......Page 282
Thiéry......Page 283
Matyssek......Page 284
Ilg and Lambert......Page 288
Andres......Page 289
Oblitas......Page 290
Glossary......Page 292
Further reading......Page 295
Bibliography......Page 297
Index......Page 300