LEGAL DISCOURSE IN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL AND CORPORATE SETTINGS: ORAL
GENRES AND INTEPRETING
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INTEREPRETING
Source Language (SL) = Lingua di partenza
Target Language (TL) = lingua di arrivo
Interpreting is not the same thing as translating
Interpreting oral mode, real time
translation written mode, delayed delivery
❑ Interpreting is a form of Translation in which a first and final rendition in another language is
produced on the basis of a one-time presentation of an utterance in the source language.
(P)chhacker 2016: 11, original emphasis)
❑ Interpreting / interpretation is rendering spoken or signed information from a source language
(SL) to a target language (TL) in oral or signed form, conveying both the register and meaning of
the source language content. (ISO 18841: 2018, art. 3.1.2)
❑ “The process of first fully understanding, analyzing, and processing a spoken or signed message
and then faithfully rendering it into another spoken or signed language. ” (ASTM International,
F2089, Standard Practice for Language Interpreting, 2015)
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