9780826498052

Translator and interpreter training; issues, methods and debates.

Ed. by John Kearns.

Continuum Publishing Group

2008

223 pages

$150.00

Hardcover

Studies in translation

P306

Scholars

of translation, most with a specialty language or languages as well, offer a snapshot of the current status of language mediation education and its place in the current status of the profession. Among their topics are a conference interpreter's overview of second-language acquisition, the systematic assessment of translator competence, making British Sign Language dictionaries, and the academic and the vocational. The series is published in conjunction with The International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies.

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