Full Description
This is the first book to focus solely on ethics in public service interpreting. Four leading researchers from across Europe share their expertise on ethics, the theory behind ethics, types of ethics, codes of ethics, and what it means to be a public service interpreter.
This volume is highly innovative in that it provides the reader with not only a theoretical basis to explain why underlying ethical dilemmas are so common in the field, but it also offers guidelines that are explained and discussed at length and illustrated with examples. Divided into three Parts, this ground-breaking text offers a comprehensive discussion of issues surrounding Public Service Interpreting. Part 1 centres on ethical theories, Part 2 compares and contrasts codes of ethics and includes real-life examples related to ethics, and Part 3 discusses the link between ethics, professional development, and trust.
Ethics in Public Service Interpreting serves as both an explanatory and informative core text for students and as a guide or reference book for interpreter trainees as well as for professional interpreters - and for professionals who need an interpreter's assistance in their own work.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Situating Interpreting Ethics in Moral Philosophy
1.1 Introduction: Sector-specific interpreting. Interpreter agency and ethical challenges
1.2 Contextualising PSI ethics: history, philosophy and professional practice
1.3 Ethics in Philosophy
1.4 Loyalty, Honesty and Truth-Telling. The foundation of the accuracy ethic?
1.5 The Philosophy of Ethics: a brief look at the development of some central tenets
1.6 The Ethics of translation - ethics in Translation Studies
1.7 Summing Up: The PSI-Moral Philosophy ethical interface
Concluding remarks: The existential anguish of choice and decision-making
References
Part II: Codes of Ethics
2.1 Historical Examples of Interpreter Ethics
2.2 Regulation of Professions
2.3 Association codes of ethics
2.4 Advocacy
2.5 Company codes of ethics for interpreters
2.6 The Norwegian example
2.7 Intercultural Mediators
2.8 Conclusion
2.9 Ethics in Real Life Cases
Conclusion
References
Part III: Ethics and Profession
3.1 Why do we need professional ethics?
3.2 What is a profession?
3.3 How extensive a domain for the interpreter's exercise of discretion?
3.4 Interpreting as interaction
3.5 Ethics, trust and the organisational aspect of professions
Conclusion: Ethics, education and professional integrity
References
Index
