Interpretation - 9781847698094

Nolan, a United Nations linguist, offers interpreters and students in training programs a guide to conference interpreting in international governmental and business settings. He assumes that students have mastered their active and passive working languages and the fundamentals of translation, and he presents an overview of interpretation, with exercises that focus on expanding the student's range of expression, to build the vocabulary needed. He covers public speaking, preparation/anticipating the speaker, complex syntax/compression, word order/clusters, general adverbial clauses, untranslatability, figures of speech, argumentation, formal style, diction/register, formal policy addresses, economic and political discourse, quotations/allusions/transposition, humor, Latinisms, numbers, and note-taking. English, French, and Spanish are used in the exercises, but they can be adapted for other languages. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)