Revisiting the Interpreter’s Role: A study of conference, court, and medical interpreters in Canada, Mexico, and the United States

摘要: Through the development of a valid and reliable instrument, this book sets out to study role that interpreters play in various settings where they work, i.e. courts, hospitals, business meetings, international conferences, schools. It presents interpreters’ perceptions beliefs about their work as well statements behaviors practice. For first time, administration results survey administered across languages Canada, Mexico United States offer reader glimpse interpreters' views own words. also discusses tension between professional ideology reality at work. This has implications for theory practice interpreting settings.