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What is Public Service Interpreting

Handbook of Research on Medical Interpreting
Public service interpreting enables national and regional authorities to communicate with persons with a migrant and/or refugee background who do not speak or understand the national language(s) (sufficiently well), in order to screen their status as (potential) asylum seekers or to allow them to have access to public services such as health care, municipal and police services. (European Commission).
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Sight Translation: Best Practices in Healthcare and in Training
Anne Birgitta Nilsen (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway) and Randi Havnen (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9308-9.ch016
Abstract
In this chapter, we will provide updated knowledge in the discussion of how to define sight translation. Furthermore, we will present a discussion of best practices in sight translation in a health care context, not only related to the process of sight translating, but also to challenges regarding the listener's accessibility to sight translated texts. Furthermore, we will present our curriculum for sight translation at Oslo Metropolitan University and explain the rationale behind it based on theoretical knowledge from extant translation studies and the theories of semiotics and multimodality. We will argue that sight translation needs to be treated as a unique interpreting method that requires special training, and we will conclude with suggestions for further research.
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