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Community Interpreting

Teaching Staff: Vlachopoulos Stefanos
Course Code: YK-6001
Gram-Web Code: ΔΔ0600
Course Category: Specialization
Course Type: Compulsory
Course Level: Undergraduate
Course Language: Greek
Semester: 6th
ECTS: 4
Total Hours: 2
Erasmus: Not Available

Community Interpreting
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Short Description:

Definition, orientation and limits of the professional field
The role of the community interpreter
Linguistic, cultural and professional requirements
Required skills and institutional frame for community interpretation
Mediation as a communicative means
Ethics and determination
Crisis management

The course delivers a picture of community interpreting in all its aspects, the role of the Community interpreter, her/his responsibility, principles, and practices. A third of the course is dedicated to theoretical issues and two-thirds are dedicated to practical workshop simulation exercises.

Objectives - Learning Outcomes:

Students will get in touch with the basic principles of community interpreting. After successful completion of the course students will be able to :

- Be familiar with environments where Community Interpreting is being carried out

- Assess the social and cultural aspect of this type of translation

- Distinguish the techniques and requirements from other forms of translation

- Display profound knowledge of the ethical challenges

- Be aware of the challenges of community interpreting

- Display knowledge of public services

- Distinguish the dimension of volunteering in the fields of the community

Syllabus:

In detail, the course is divided into the following modules:

Basic introduction to interpreting / differences with translation.
Models of community interpreting.
Legal framework of interpreting in public services in Greece.
Types of Community interpretation related to the communication framework.
Psychological and social factors of Community interpreting.
Simulation of community interpreting in asylum settings.
Simulation of community interpreting in police settings.
Simulation of community interpreting in justice settings.
Simulation of community interpreting in health services (patient reception).
Simulation of community interpreting in health services (interpreting during surgery, delivery, etc.).
Simulation of community interpreting in education.
Simulation of community interpreting in refugee reception centers.

Simulation of community interpreting in nat dural disasters

Suggested Bibliography:

- Suggested bibliography:

- Angelelli, C. (2004a). Medical Interpreting and Cross-cultural Communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

- Angelelli, C. (2004b). Revisiting the Interpreter’s Role. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

- Barsky, R. F. (1994). Constructing a Productive Other. Discourse Theory and the Convention Refugee Hearing. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

- Berk-Seligson, S. (1990). The Bilingual Courtroom: Interpreters in the Judicial Process. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

- Hale, S. (2007). Community Interpreting. London: Palgrave.

- Hertog, E. & van der Veer, B. (Eds.) (2006). Taking Stock: Research and Methodology in Community Interpreting. Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series 5. Antwerpen: Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken. Διαθέσιμο στο https://lans-tts.uantwerpen.be/index.php/LANS-TTS/issue/view/8

- Mason, I. (ed.) (1999). Dialogue Interpreting. Special issue of The Translator 5.

-Pöchhacker, F. (2016). Introducing interpreting studies, 2nd ed. London: Routledge.

-Vlachopoulos, Stefanos (2016). Community interpreting in Greece. Building the future. International Journal of Language, Translation and Intercultural Communication (Παράρτημα). Available on https://zenodo.org/record/161349#.WCnev3f5yCQ (δίγλωσση έκδοση).

- Wadensjö, C. (1998). “Community Interpreting”. In M. Baker & K. Malmkjaer (Εds.) Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. London & New York: Routledge.

- Βλαχόπουλος, Στέφανος (2014). Η Δικαστηριακή Διερμηνεία στην Ελλάδα. Καταγραφή και αξιολόγηση της πραγματικότητας. Τμήμα Διοίκησης Επιχειρήσεων, Ηγουμενίτσα

(Available on http://epublishing.ekt.gr/sites/ektpublishing/files/ebooks/Βλαχόπουλος-Full.pdf)

-Βλαχόπουλος, Στέφανος. (2014). Πολυγλωσσία στο Δίκαιο. Μετάφραση νομικών κειμένων και δικαστηριακή διερμηνεία, Εκδόσεις Νομική Βιβλιοθήκη, Αθήνα.

- Related academic journals:

- FITISPos International Journal,

http://www3.uah.es/fitispos_ij/OJS/ojs-2.4.5/index.php/fitispos/index

- International Journal of Language, Translation and Intercultural Communication, https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/latic

- Interpreting: International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting, https://benjamins.com/catalog/intp

- Journal des traducteurs / Translators’ Journal, https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/meta/

- Journal of Undergraduate Interpreting Studies, http://www.northeastern.edu/juis/

- Lingue Culture Mediazioni – Languages Cultures Mediation,

http://www.ledonline.it/index.php/LCM-Journal/issue/archive

- Translation and Interpreting Studies. The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association, https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/18762700

- Translation and Interpreting: the International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research, http://trans-int.org/index.php/transint

Teaching Methods:

Face to face

New Technologies:

Use of ICT in teaching.

Evaluation Methods: