Understanding Community Interpreting Services

This book investigates community interpreting services as a market offering that satisfies the needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) members of the Australian community, with an additional chapter on the Turkish context. Bringing together the disciplines of interpreting studies and management, the author analyses a variety of challenges which still arise in various fields of interpreting and suggest possible solutions, as well as future directions for other global contexts where changing demographics mean that community-based interpreting is increasingly relevant. Based on interviews with various stakeholders including directors, interpreters, and trainers in the private sector or state-run institutions, the book's main focus is the real experiences of people working on the ground in community interpreting. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of translation, interpreting and migration studies, as well as interpreters and their trainers, and government policy-makers.

Analyses the development of community interpreting in Australia, widely viewed as an international leader in the field Suggests possible solutions and future directions for the development of community interpreting programmes Provides a comprehensive overview of an emerging and increasingly relevant field of interpreting

Autorentext

Oktay Eser is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Translation and Interpreting at Amasya University, Turkey. ****

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Community Interpreting Research.- Chapter 3: Community Interpreting as a Service.- Chapter 4: Challenges Facing the Community Interpreting Industry.- Chapter 5: Sustainable Strategies to Maintain Community Interpreting Services.- Chapter 6: Beyond Australia: Turkey.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.