Interpreter Dilemmas

Listen to Jingjing Yu Lipski's story as she receives a Voltaire Award at Liberty Victoria.  A great example of the ethical dilemmas that confront interpreters. Check minute 19:35 for her definition of what an interpreter does.
Read more about it on Liberty's Victoria press release.

Court Interpreting

Check the video below from Vancouver Community College on Ethical Challenges for Court Interpreters. Interesting and very good consecutive practice. there are many more to the right of the youtube video page

Some Points of Ethics in Translation

Thinking about issues of  ethics regarding translators (ethics test coming soon!), I have come across a couple of blog entries by Rose Newell (German/English translator):

• The Ethics of Proofreading
• The Ethics of Translation Blogging

Read them carefully and note all the different issues treated here: plagiarism, unethical translators claiming to work for other translators found on professional websites, negative proofreaders, etc.

Check her ten points towards ethical proofreading.

Send me/your teacher a summary of what you've learnt from reading the blog posts linked above an refer to the code of ethics relevant to the issues mentioned.

Ethics of the Tanslator Question 1

Add a sticky to this board with a brief answer to the ethical question posed. At this stage we are just brainstorming for possible issues in the question. Please refer to the Code of ethics before answering.
Click on post a sticky (bottom of the board) and then double click and follow the instructions.

Ethics of Translators: Intervention

An interesting issue in translation ethics is that of intervention. Translator sues boss over sexist translation is a poignant example of intervention (in this case ideological as well as linguistic).

For a more academic point of view, check the video series by Anthony Pym on the same topic. He gave a talk on the ethics of translators at the conference Profession, Identity and Status Translators and Interpreters as an Occupational Group (March 15-19-09, Tel Aviv University & Bar Ilan University). The focus was on Intervention.

Watch the video and answer the questions on this quiz (which is a trial for this quiz maker)

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