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Challenges and Opportunities in Public Service Interpreting

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Théophile Munyangeyo

    1. Leeds Beckett University , Leeds, United Kingdom

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  2. Graham Webb

    1. Leeds Beckett University , Leeds, United Kingdom

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  3. Marina Rabadán-Gómez

    1. Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool Modern Languages and Cultures, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. General Introduction

    • Marina Rabadán-Gómez
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Present and the Future of the Public Service Interpreting Marketplace

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-11
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    2. Assessing Current Stakeholders’ Needs and Expectations

      • Graham Webb, Marina Rabadán-Gómez
      Pages 13-46

    3. Professionalisation and Standardisation of Public Service Interpreting

      • Marina Rabadán-Gómez
      Pages 47-85

    4. Stakeholders’ Guide and Handbook

      • Katherine Dagleish
      Pages 87-110

    5. Fit-to-Practise Versus Exam-Ready Legal Public Service Interpreter Training: Training for Real Life or for the Exam?

      • Kirsty Heimerl-Moggan
      Pages 111-134

    6. Towards a Unified Model for Interpreter User Training in Communication via an Interpreter: The Norwegian Experience

      • Tatjana Radanović Felberg
      Pages 135-156

  4. The Interface of Interpreter-Mediated Encounters and Training Opportunities in Public Service Interpreting

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 157-159
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    2. Insight into Ethical Dilemmas in Public Service Interpreting and Interpreters’ Training Needs

      • Théophile Munyangeyo
      Pages 161-189

    3. Public Service Interpreting and Business Negotiation Interpreting: Friends or Foes?

      • Panagiota-Penny Karanasiou
      Pages 191-211

    4. Foreigners Before Themis: Legal Interpreting in Greece

      • Stefanos Vlachopoulos, Periklis Tagkas, Themistoklis Gogas, Eleftheria Dogoriti, Theodoros Vyzas
      Pages 213-234

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 235-246
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About this book

Public Service Interpreting is a hugely complex activity, encompassing human, ethical, commercial and political dimensions. It is unseen and unrecognized by most of the population but vital to those who depend on it for their security or wellbeing. The quality of PSI provision is seen by the authors as a clear indicator of how a society views and responds to the realities of a multi-ethnic and multilingual global community. Following recent significant changes in the power balance between them this book explores the increasing tensions among multiple stakeholders who together deliver such a fundamental service in a modern open society. Chapters focus on how all stakeholders need to appreciate the wider context of political and economic realities whilst collaborating more responsibly to deliver the conditions, training and support needed for expert linguists to be attracted to and retained in this vital profession.  

Editors and Affiliations

  • Leeds Beckett University , Leeds, United Kingdom

    Théophile Munyangeyo, Graham Webb

  • Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool Modern Languages and Cultures, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Marina Rabadán-Gómez

About the editors

Dr Théophile Munyangeyo is Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University. With extensive teaching experience involving semantics, pragmatics, communication theories and models, translation and Consecutive Interpreting, he is a Higher Education Academy Senior Fellow. He is the Course Leader for Public Service Interpreting provision, member of editorial boards of international journals and PhD research supervisor in language learning and teaching. 



Graham Webb was Principal Lecturer in Spanish at Leeds Beckett University from 1991 to his retirement in 2013. He taught translation and consecutive interpreting. Now a freelance translator of academic texts on aspects of pedagogy, especially assessment, he also acts as a mentor on several youth enterprise schemes.



Marina Rabadán-Gómez is Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Liverpool where she teaches Spanish language and communication skills. She previously worked at Manchester Metropolitan University and Leeds Beckett University. Her research interests are in communication theories and pragmatics as well as in translation and interpreting applied to language teaching.  

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