State of the art in community interpreting research: mapping the main research topics

Over the past ten years Community Interpreting research has become a flourishing field of study with a great number of contributions being published every year. Books, articles, papers and presentations may vary in their topics - some of them being very general and some of them much more specific -...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Vargas Urpi, Mireia
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Data de publicação:2012
País:España
Recursos:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositório:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/23794
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/23794
http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/babel.58.1.04var
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Traducció i interpretació als serveis públics
Community interpreting
Public services interpreting
Professionalization
Public services interpreters&apos
training
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Resumo:Over the past ten years Community Interpreting research has become a flourishing field of study with a great number of contributions being published every year. Books, articles, papers and presentations may vary in their topics - some of them being very general and some of them much more specific - and this diversity has been the source of our motivation to draw what could be regarded as a map of the main research topics in Community Interpreting. Thus, based on a literature review and inspired by Williams & Chesterman's (2002) map for Translation Studies, this paper proposes a specific map for Community Interpreting research, while also attempting to summarize the main contributions. It does not intend to provide an exhaustive revision, but an overview that reflects the state of the art in Community Interpreting as a basis for future research. It finally states that research topics art not isolated, but tightly interconnected as different steps in the path towards professionalization, as can be seen in the conceptual map suggested at the end of this paper.