Interpretation
PROFESSIONAL INTERPRETING IN THE REAL WORLD
Series Editor: Diane Teichman, Linguistic Services, Houston, Texas, USA
This series will pu...
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Interpretation
PROFESSIONAL INTERPRETING IN THE REAL WORLD
Series Editor: Diane Teichman, Linguistic Services, Houston, Texas, USA
This series will publish books ranging from resource texts which help both interpreters
in training and practising interpreters to better prepare for their assignments, to
training materials and instruction manuals for instructors of interpreters.
Other Books in the Series
The Interpreter's Guide to the Vehicular Accident Lawsuit
Josef F. Buenker
Other Books of Interest
Culture Bumps: An Empirical Approach to the Translation of Allusions
Ritva Leppihalme
Constructing Cultures: Essays on Literary Translation
Susan Bassnett and André Lefevere
The Pragmatics of Translation
Leo Hickey (ed.)
Practical Guide for Translators (3rd edition)
Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown
Written in the Language of the Scottish Nation
John Corbett
‘Behind Inverted Commas’ Translation and Anglo-German Cultural Relations in the
Nineteenth Century
Susanne Stark
The Rewriting of Njßls Saga: Translation, Ideology, and Icelandic Sagas
Jón Karl Helgason
Time Sharing on Stage: Drama Translation in Theatre and Society
Sirkku Aaltonen
Translation and Nation: A Cultural Politics of Englishness
Roger Ellis and Liz Oakley-Brown (eds)
The Interpreter’s Resource
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Annotated Texts for Translation: English–German
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Contemporary Translation Theories (2nd Edition)
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Literary Translation: A Practical Guide
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Translation-mediated Communication in a Digital World
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Frae Ither Tongues: Essays on Modern Translations into Scotts
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Practical Guide for Translators (4th edition)
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Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic
Said Faiq (ed.)
For more details of these or any other of our publications, please contact:
Multilingual Matters, Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall,
Victoria Road, Clevedon, BS21 7HH, England
http://www.multilingual-matters.com
PROFESSIONAL INTERPRETING IN THE REAL WORLD
Series Editor: Diane Teichman
Linguistic Services, Houston, Texas, USA
Interpretation
Techniques and Exercises
James Nolan
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD
Clevedon • Buffalo • Toronto
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Nolan, James
Interpretation: Techniques and Exercises/James Nolan.
Professional Interpreting in the Real World
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Translating and interpreting. I. Title. II. Series.
P306.N586 2005
418'.02–dc22 2004016745
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue entry for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 1-85359-791-0 (hbk)
ISBN 1-85359-790-2 (pbk)
Multilingual Matters Ltd
UK: Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon BS21 7HH.
USA: UTP, 2250 Military Road, Tonawanda, NY 14150, USA.
Canada: UTP, 5201 Dufferin Street, North York, Ontario M3H 5T8, Canada.
Copyright © 2005 James Nolan.
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any
means without permission in writing from the publisher.
Typeset by Florence Production Ltd.
Printed and bound in Great Britain by the Cromwell Press Ltd.
Contents
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Introduction: Frequently Asked Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1 Speaking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2 Preparation/Anticipating the Speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3 Complex Syntax/Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4 Word Order/Clusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
5 General Adverbial Clauses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
6 Untranslatability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
7 Figures of Speech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
8 Argumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
9 Diction/Register . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
10 Formal Style. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
11 A Policy Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
12 Quotations/Allusions/Transposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
13 Political Discourse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
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14 Economic Discourse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
15 Humor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...