Interaction Management Skills in Telephone Interpreting

A lo largo de la última década, la interpretación telefónica (IT) ha consolidado su presencia en los servicios públicos de muchos países, incluido España. Por ello, se le está prestando una mayor atención a la necesidad de formar a profesionales de la IT que sepan hacer frente a los retos derivados de este tipo de interpretación a distancia. A pesar de que la IT posee características específicas (el uso del teléfono como canal de comunicación; la ausencia física del o de la intérprete del lugar de la interacción; la ausencia de información visual y la inmediatez con que se accede a la o a el intérprete), esta comparte muchos rasgos con la interpretación dialógica presencial, entre ellos, el papel de quien interpreta como coordinador de la interacción para asegurar el flujo de la interacción entre los interlocutores. Sin embargo, la manera de efectuar dicha coordinación es necesariamente diferente cuando se interpreta por teléfono y cuando se hace persona. Este artículo tiene como objetivo identificar y describir las destrezas específicas que necesitan adquirir los y las intérpretes telefónicas para gestionar la interacción entre quienes participan en la conversación. Algunas de ellas no son exclusivas de la IT, pero deben ser readaptadas al uso del teléfono. Estas destrezas podrían ser empleadas potencialmente como punto de partida para diseñar una propuesta de formación específica exhaustiva en IT.Over the last decade, telephone interpreting (TI) has consolidated its presence in the public services of many countries around the world, including Spain. That is why increased attention is being paid to the need for training TI professionals who are able to face the challenges that this type of remote interpreting entails. Despite TI’s specificities (the use of the telephone as the channel of communication, the interpreter’s physical absence from the place of interaction, the lack of visual information and the immediacy with which the interpreter is accessed), it shares many features with face-to-face dialogue interpreting, one of them being the role of the interpreter as interaction coordinator to ensure communication flow between the primary parties. Nonetheless, the way coordination is performed when interpreting over the phone necessarily differs from on-site interpreting. This article aims to identify and describe the specific skills needed by telephone interpreters to manage interaction between participants in conversation. Some of them are not exclusive to TI, but must be readapted for use with the telephone. These skills could potentially be used as the starting point to design a specific comprehensive training in TI

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Given an algebraic surface implicitly defined by an irreducible polynomial, we present a method that decides whether or not this surface can be parametrized by a polynomial parametrization without base points and, in the affirmative case, we show how to compute this parametrization.Agencia Estatal de Investigació

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Some New Symbolic Algorithms for the Computation of Generalized Asymptotes

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Elastic asymmetry of PLA material in FDM-printed parts: considerations concerning experimental characterisation for use in numerical simulations

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Quality of Life, Physical and Mental Health, and Economic Evaluation of Family Caregivers of Chronic Dependent Children: INFAPRINT Cohort Study Protocol.

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Arte y revolución en las páginas de Revista de Oriente (1925-1926)

En junio de 1925, la Asociación Amigos de Rusia en Buenos Aires lanzó el primer número de Revista de Oriente, su órgano oficial. Esta publicación tuvo por objetivo difundir la realidad soviética entre estudiantes, obreros e intelectuales argentinos, posicionándose como un medio de comunicación alternativo a la “prensa burguesa”. A pesar de no haberse constituido estrictamente como una revista literaria o artística, en sus páginas se destinó un lugar de relevancia a estos tópicos. En las elecciones visuales, artículos y escritos reproducidos por los editores, podemos reconocer determinados posicionamientos frente a los debates estéticos que signaron las primeras décadas del siglo XX, particularmente aquellos referidos a la relación entre vanguardia artística y vanguardia política. En este sentido, como desarrollaremos a lo largo del capítulo, Revista de Oriente se colocó en una suerte de bisagra entre los realismos y las experiencias de las vanguardias soviéticas. Esta adscripción por momentos ambigua expresaría no solo el momento de transición que atravesaba la URSS en la definición de sus políticas culturales, sino también las tensiones que tenían lugar en el campo cultural argentino de la década del veinte, signado a su vez por la emergencia de los grupos de Boedo y Florida, formaciones que, aunque contrapuestas en sus principios rectores, admitieron intersecciones mutuas.Facultad de Arte