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MuTra 2005 – Challenges of Multidimensional Translation: Conference Proceedings Mira Kadric 60 50 40 Type of participants' previous training Percent 30 53.03 20 10 0 "natural" interpretation 28.03 translation/ interpretation 13.64 philology 5.3 law Diagram 2: Type of participants’ previous training and lawyers were classified as persons with existing competences in the field of court interpreting. They accounted for 47% of the participants, while those participants without competences relevant for court interpreting accounted for 53%. Diagram 2 shows a comparison of the number of participants without relevant background knowledge and the number of those with background knowledge. The latter group is further divided into translators and interpreters, philologists and lawyers. As regards the group of participants with a translation or interpretation degree, it was noticeable that translators outnumbered interpreters by far. They had excellent knowledge of their respective working languages as well as outstanding cultural and translation competences. However, they did not have a very high degree of competence in interpretation and were not very familiar with the legal system and terminology. Participants with a degree in language studies had excellent command of their respective foreign language as well as outstanding cultural competences, which are indispensable when working as a translator or interpreter. Some of them also had a fairly good degree of competence in translation. Lawyers had a very good command of their foreign languages, an excellent knowledge of the Austrian legal system as well as knowledge (as a rule contrastive) of the codes of procedure and legal terminology. Among the participants with no particular background knowledge, there were many with a very good command of their respective language, who worked as “natural” interpreters, above all in their families and at work. However, they did not name any training or practical experience which would be relevant for working court interpreters. In addition to German as the common working language, the following 27 languages were represented in the seminars: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, English, French, Finnish, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Czech, Ukrainian and Urdu. 8 8 The information about training and working languages was taken from the application forms. In the questionnaire a question about the training and the working languages was left out deliberately. Otherwise it would have been easy to identify the participants. If they had not remained anonymous, the participants might have answered the questionnaire less freely. 178
2.2 Course contents MuTra 2005 – Challenges of Multidimensional Translation: Conference Proceedings Mira Kadric In addition to the introduction to interpretation techniques, the two-day “pilot seminar” could only touch on some topics that are relevant for court interpreting and impart a degree of awareness regarding the complexity of the problems connected with court interpreting. In order to close this gap in training, two different types of seminar were later offered; the introduction to interpretation techniques was split into a “basic course” and an “advanced course”. According to their interests, the course participants could attend either both seminars or only one of the two. The aim of this division was, on the one hand, to be able to limit the subject areas more efficiently and, on the other, to make the rather heterogeneous groups of participants more homogeneous by grouping those participants together who had similar interests and background knowledge. The two-day introduction course “Interpretation techniques: basic course” gave an overview of the court interpreters’ fields of work and the requirements connected with this work, as well as of the basic topics of translation. The following is an overview of the topics of the courses: Topics included in the two-day basic course: • Overview of the fields of work (court interpreting, police interpreting, asylum interpreting): requirements and competences • Legal basis of court interpreting • Principles of general communication • Principles of institutional communication • Professional conduct • Note-taking – introduction • Note-taking – exercise (German-German exercises) • Introduction to whispered simultaneous interpreting After putting the emphasis on the basic principles of court interpreting on the first day of the seminar, the aim of the second day was to introduce the participants to consecutive interpreting (with the use of note-taking) and whispered interpreting independently of their various working languages. The focus of attention was put on note-taking. In the course of the exercises the professional role of court interpreters was discussed, above all with regard to the power structure in the courtroom. The two-day “advanced course” was partly based on the basic course, and partly had new contents. Topics of the two-day advanced course: • Introduction to document translation • Translation exercises • Sight translation • Further lessons on note-taking with exercises • Exercises and analysis of the work taking account of all the competences acquired during the seminar • Mock trial presided over by a judge Technical texts and topics formed the working basis of the “advanced course”. In the field of technical language, the emphasis was put on terms and abbreviations used in court practice. The participants were encouraged to work out a system which could be used in the various working languages. At this point, the respective foreign languages of the participants were also taken into account to some extent. The following aspects were trained, analysed and 179
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