Challenges and Opportunities in Public Service Interpreting (Hardcover)

General Introduction. -PART I: The present and the future of the public service interpreting marketplace. -Introduction to PART I. -Chapter 1: Assessing current stakeholders' needs and expectations. -Chapter 2: Professionalisation and standardisation of Public Service Interpreting. -Chapter 3: Stakeholders' guide and handbook. -Chapter 4: Fit-to-practise versus exam-ready legal public service interpreter training; training for real-life or for the exam?. -Chapter 5: Towards a Unified Model for Interpreter User Training in Communication via an Interpreter: The Norwegian Experience. -PART II: The interface of interpreter mediated encounters and training opportunities in public service interpreting. -Introduction to PART II. -Chapter 6: Insight into ethical dilemmas in Public Service Interpreting and interpreters' training needs. -Chapter 7: Public Service Interpreting and Business Negotiation Interpreting: Friends or Foes?. -Chapter 8: Foreigners before Themis: Legal Interpreting in Greece. -General Conclusion.