Further links and bits on Liaison Interpreting

There is no end to the quest. I googled "liaison interpreting advocacy" and bumped into a new treasure chest of gold.

First Liaison Interpreting in the Community, a book published in South Africa in 1999. I located an expensive copy over Amazon at more than $100, and whopping >$400 somewhere else. A review of the book is here. There must be books on the same subject in other language I cannot read although I would like to have sources at least.

A paper from Bar Ilan University being a "a personal account of the author’s experience in conducting (for the first time) a community-based interpreting course, designed to foster social activism and political awareness, while maintaining acceptable standards and coping with the typically complex issues associated with this task."

COMMUNITY INTERPRETING: RE-CONCILIATION THROUGH POWER MANAGEMENT : "This paper investigates current practices in community interpreting in Australia with a view to identifying the role actually played by the interpreter within the overall power dynamics of linguistically mediated triadic interactions."

A conference proceeding : "From ‘Community Interpreting’ to ‘Discourse Interpreting’:
Establishing Some Useful Parameters" dated 2007. As the following picked from the introduction clearly demonstrate, liaison interpreting is ever still searching for a self-identity: "In contrast to conference interpreting, which is today a fairly well-established discipline with its own research paradigms, the bilateral ‘retour’ interpreting of communicative events, often referred to as community interpreting, is still controversial as far as its concept and methodology are concerned. Its unclear conceptual basis becomes evident in the array of different expressions with different, often arbitrary foci which have made it difficult to position the interpreter’s role in interpreter-mediated scenarios. "

Dialogue interpreting (pun intended):

- I am a liaison intepreter
- Oh! I see. And, what do you do for a living?