Location
Midstate Medical Center
Cheshire/Wallingford conference rooms
435 Lewis Avenue
Meriden, CT 06451
Description
Interpreters frequently report the desire to “remember everything that was said/ signed” in order to produce interpretations. The ultimate goal of interpretation is communication, which involves ideas, emotions, and thoughts. Is that goal being met when interpreters retain forms from one language and overlay them into the other, i.e. sign/say what was said/signed? Communication is better served when interpreters work to achieve the speakers’ goals via conventions that work in the target languages.
Based on my studies of the Integrated Model of Interpreting (widely known as the Colonomos Model), participants will work collaboratively to create interpretations based on speaker goal (intention) rather than speaker text (retention), and practice ways of discussing the process with non-evaluative language.
Topics we will cover
- Practice analyzing source texts to determine speaker goal
- Collaboratively create effective interpretations based on analysis of speaker goal
- Create interpretations individually based on analysis of speaker goal
- Practice analyzing target texts to determine goal
- Practice discussing source and target texts using non-evaluative language
CEUs
8:30-4:00 PM
Six-and-a-half-hour workshop offering 0.65 CEUs in the Professional Studies category. Requires some content pre-knowledge.
Registration
Free for FSW employees
$110.00 for non-FSW employees before January 20
$125.00 for non-FSW employees after January 20
For more information and registration, please contact Rachel Spillane: rspillane@fswinc.org, 888-676-8554