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Audience in interpreting: sources needed
Initiator des Themas: Bartłomiej Stanirowski
Bartłomiej Stanirowski
Bartłomiej Stanirowski
Local time: 14:08
Polnisch > Englisch
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Feb 5, 2013

Hello,

I need some sources (books, articles, websites) regarding types of audience (recipients) in oral translation. They can be in English or in Polish. Can anyone help me?

Greetings,
 
Nicholas Ferreira
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Kanada
Local time: 08:08
Spanisch > Englisch
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Wikipedia Mar 18, 2013

Quibox wrote:

Hello,

I need some sources (books, articles, websites) regarding types of audience (recipients) in oral translation. They can be in English or in Polish. Can anyone help me?

Greetings,


Wikipedia for starters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_interpretation

Then follow the references for more info.

Lots on Google too...
 
LilianNekipelov
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Vereinigte Staaten
Local time: 08:08
Russisch > Englisch
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Hi, for what purpose -- it is important. Mar 18, 2013

For interpretation purposes, there is nothing really to read about -- unless you are working on some kind of a thesis. It can be summarized in two sentences. You have to say exactly whatever the speaker is saying in exactly the sam register, so I don't really know how audience can be of any importance here. The speaker chooses the register -- not you. If he decided to speak at a seminar, in a colloquial language you have to speak in a colloquial language as well, although this is very unlikely. ... See more
For interpretation purposes, there is nothing really to read about -- unless you are working on some kind of a thesis. It can be summarized in two sentences. You have to say exactly whatever the speaker is saying in exactly the sam register, so I don't really know how audience can be of any importance here. The speaker chooses the register -- not you. If he decided to speak at a seminar, in a colloquial language you have to speak in a colloquial language as well, although this is very unlikely. You even have to translate various profanities and curses in court, if a mentally unstable litigant decided to use them. ▲ Collapse
 


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