When I read that the Westminster MA Conference Interpreting course had been shut down, I was struck dumb. Should I offer my condolences to all who had worked hard to make it a premier choice among post-grad interpreter training programs? Or should I feel vicariously relieved that a group of hard-working colleagues would no longer have to deal with bureaucrats incapable of grasping the import of what they were doing?
An examination of how age-related changes in language abilities and the cognitive abilities underlying them are experienced by professional multilinguals – namely, conference interpreters.
Nacida en Washington en 1922, y crecida en Caracas, París y Washington, es la fundadora de la profesión del intérprete de conferencia en Venezuela, donde constituye una referencia fundamental.
Responding to the United Nations' call to train more specialised linguists in Africa, the Instituto Camões [1], the Faculty of Arts of Lisbon University and the Universidade Pedagógica of Mozambique came together to set up the first postgraduate training course for conference interpreters in Portuguese-speaking Africa.
It’s rare for conference interpreters to take centre stage in any show. Apart from documentaries there are very few examples in the cinema and even less in the theatre.
We begin with research on the origins of language and end with how improvisation is mirrored in the brain. In between we explore campaigns in defense of professional rights, endangered languages, linguistic roadblocks, and blogs from interpreters.
Communicate! is a six-monthly multilingual webzine that records the voice of interpreters on the conference circuit