Consecutive Interpreting

<p><em>Consecutive Interpreting: A Short Course</em> provides a step-by-step guide to consecutive interpreting. This user-friendly coursebook tackles key skills such as presentation, analysis, note-taking and reformulation, as well as advanced market-related skills such as preparation for assignments, protocol and practical tips for working interpreters. Each chapter provides examples of the skill, as well as a variety of exercises to learn the skill both in isolation and then in combination with other skills.</p><p>Including model answers, a glossary of terms and further reading suggestions, this is the essential coursebook for all students of consecutive interpreting as well as for interpreter-trainers looking for innovative ways of teaching consecutive interpreting.</p> <p>Thanks </p><p>Part I </p><p><strong>1. Introduction</strong> </p><p>What is consecutive interpreting? </p><p>When is consecutive interpreting used? </p><p>Who can be a consecutive interpreter? </p><p>Why learn consecutive? </p><p>Should we learn consecutive before simultaneous? </p><p>How good is good enough? </p><p>About this book </p><p>How to use this book </p><p>2. Presentation </p><p>Posture </p><p>Delivery </p><p>Practice </p><p><em>Conclusion</em></p><p><strong>3. Consecutive without notes</strong> </p><p>A word about memory </p><p>Chunking </p><p>What you already know </p><p>Narrative prompts </p><p>Visual prompts </p><p>Structural prompts </p><p>Logical prompts </p><p>Notes </p><p><em>Conclusion</em></p><p><em>Skills combining</em> </p><p><strong>4. Analysis</strong> </p><p>Structural breakdown </p><p>Mind maps </p><p>Sections </p><p>Mini-summaries </p><p>Section diagrams </p><p>Logical analysis </p><p>Recognizing and splitting ideas </p><p>Notes </p><p><em>Skills combining</em></p><p><strong>5. Preparation and practice</strong> </p><p>Preparation </p><p>Exam preparation </p><p>Practice </p><p>6. Note-taking </p><p>Abbreviations </p><p>Ideas </p><p>Clauses </p><p>Verticality </p><p>Links </p><p>Symbols </p><p>Values (more and less important) </p><p>What language to note in </p><p><em>Skills combining</em></p><p>7. Noting less </p><p>Memory prompts </p><p>Things in front of you </p><p>Obvious in context </p><p>Obvious from the structure of the notes </p><p>8. Reformulation </p><p>What is reformulation? </p><p>Why reformulate? </p><p>How to reformulate </p><p>How does consecutive facilitate reformulation? </p><p>9. Effort management in consecutive </p><p>What is effort? </p><p>Preemptive effort management </p><p>Directionality </p><p>Notes as an effort management tool </p><p>Part II </p><p>10. Advanced presentation </p><p>Differences between interpreting and speaking </p><p>Style </p><p>Preparing for a real meeting room </p><p>Looking at your audience </p><p>Notes as stage direction </p><p>11. Advanced Analysis </p><p>Types of speech </p><p>Speech analysis in the media </p><p>Structure maps </p><p>Echos </p><p>Rhetorical devices </p><p>12. Advanced preparation </p><p>Practice</p><p>The situation </p><p>Preparing the content </p><p>13. Protocol and practicalities </p><p>Dress code </p><p>Interpreting equipment </p><p>Survival equipment </p><p>What to do when you arrive on site </p><p>During the speech and after </p><p>Tips from other authors </p><p>14. Digitally-assisted consecutive </p><p>Simultaneous consecutive </p><p>Note-taking on a tablet computer </p><p>Real-time transcription </p><p>Pros and cons </p><p>Appendix 1 Versions of the tasks set </p><p>Chapter 2: Presentation </p><p>Chapter 3: Memory </p><p>Chapter 4: Analysis </p><p>Chapter 6: Note-taking </p><p>Chapter 11: Advanced analysis </p><p>Chapter 12: Advanced preparation </p><p>Appendix 2 Memory techniques </p><p>The memory palace </p><p>Visual linking </p><p><strong>Appendix 3 The Example Speeches</strong> </p><p>1: Javid </p><p>2: Jobs </p><p>3: Lumumba </p><p><i>4: Ralston</i> </p><p>5: Martin Harvey </p><p>6: Bishop </p><p>7: Sinofsky </p><p>8: Homden </p><p>9: Gonzales </p><p>10: Bett </p><p>11: Kyles </p><p>12: Obama </p><p>13: Asani </p><p>14: Barker </p><p>15: Haley </p><p>16: Romecki </p><p>17: Baird </p><p><b>Glossary</b> </p><p>Bibliography </p><p>Index </p>