Public pervice users, providers and interpreter-mediators in Catalonia: profiles, confluences and divergencies
Ugarte i Ballester, Xus (Universitat de Vic)
Vargas-Urpi, Mireia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Date:	2012
Abstract:	The aim of the present study is to publish the principal objectives, methodology and results of the project Traducció i Immigració: la formació de traductors i intèrprets per als serveis públics, noves solucions per a noves realitats (Translation and Immigration: the training of public service translators and interpreters, new solutions for new scenarios). The overall objective of the project, which was carried out between 2009-10, was to assemble and analyse a significant corpus of empirical data on the state of Public Service Interpreting and Translating (PSTI) in Catalonia from the perspective of the three agents participating in the communicative interaction: (a) the mediator-translator-interpreter (MTI), (b) the public services end-user and (c) the front-line public services provider. From the data obtained - both quantitative and qualitative - we were able not only to define the professional profile and practice of the public services translator and interpreter in Catalonia, but also to obtain a large quantity of objective information about the needs and preferences of the end-users and providers of public services, namely: the difficulties they encounter in their communication exchanges; the kind of mediation the two groups prefer; which foreign languages are most in demand; and the specific characteristics involved in each field of intervention.
Rights:	Tots els drets reservats.
Language:	Anglès
Document:	Capítol de llibre
Subject:	Public service interpreting ; Intercultural mediation ; Immigration
Published in:	Iberian Studies on Translation and Interpreting, 2012, p. 269-290

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