Jonathan Downie

Being a Successful Interpreter

Adding Value and Delivering Excellence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Being a Successful Interpreter: Adding Value and Delivering Excellence is a practice-oriented guide on the future of interpreting and the ways in which interpreters can adjust their business and professional practices for the changing market.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 206g
• ISBN-13: 9781138119697
• ISBN-10: 1138119695
• Artikelnr.: 43778986

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Downie is a French-English and English-French conference interpreter as well as a researcher, writer and speaker in interpreting and translation. His doctoral thesis at Heriot-Watt University focussed on expectations of interpreters in church settings, which started him on the idea of using research to help interpreters. He regularly writes on the connections between research and practice in translation and interpreting for the ITI Bulletin and VKD Kurier.

Inhaltsangabe

1. From Neutral Conduits to Committed Partners: Working actively with
clients 2. Masters of our Future: Initial training for a new breed of
interpreters 3. Can Professionals Develop?: CPD in the booth and beyond 4.
Changing our Public Face: Branding, Promotion, PR 5. Guilds, Info Hubs or
Communities of Practice: Professional Associations of the future
(communities of practice) 6. We're all in this together: Uniting our
divided professions 7. Melting the Ivory Tower: Keeping research relevant
8. Eating your way to success 9. Seeing the Funny side 10. Widening the
View: Interpreting outside of the Big Organisations