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What kind of interpreter are you?
An old received idea on interpreters is that they are invisible transmitters of meaning or message. This is the kind of interpreter I was brought up to be. You leave your feelings outside the booth or...
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Communicative Competence, Generative Grammar and Dan Everett
I would say that an interpreter has a very well developed communiative competence. The definition of communicative competence being that we create meaning in utterances in many different communication...
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Communication Theory
I’m trying to conquer Communication Theory for the second time round. Teaching a topic is always better than just studying it if you want to really conquer it. I find communication theory very relevant...
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Language and thought, Sapir-Whorf and Everett (again)
There an interesting article in New York Times right know. It asks the question if lanugage affects the way you think. The author, Guy Deuthscher, takes his starting point in theSapir Whorf hypothesis...
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The interpreter’s role in the participation framework
Erving Goffman was an antropologist and sociologist who studied social interaction. Among other things, he proposed a model to analyse the distribution of responsibility between interlocutors. Cecilia...
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How to assess interpreting
Use new evidence of learning to replace old (Photo credit: dkuropatwa) This is not my first and surely not my last post on assessment. If you’re looking for the other posts just type “assessment” in...
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Theory and theory
I guess that autumn has been a lot about CPD (continuing professional development) for me. I took a course in working into English B in August (held by Zoë Hewetson and Christine Adams, I can really...
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