The Interpreting Process: Intention or Retention?

Silhouette of a person with gears turning in brain

When

Start: March 18, 2012 at 12:00 PM
End: March 18, 2012 at 6:00 PM

Location

CAIRS
17 N. State Street
Chicago, Illinois 60602
8th Floor, Room 820

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

12:00-6:00 PM
Six-hour workshop offering 0.6 CEUs in the Professional Studies category. Requires some content pre-knowledge.

Registration

Before March 3, 2012
$50.00 for interpreters
$40.00 for interpreting students

After March 3, 2012, if seats are still available
$60.00 for interpreters
$50.00 for interpreting students

For more information and registration, please contact Josh Garrett at JGworkshops@yahoo.com or 630-808-8960 (text).

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