Fernando Prieto Ramos (ed.) (2020). Institutional Translation and Interpreting: Assessing Practices and Managing for Quality. New York: Routledge, pp. 230, £38.99. ISBN 9780367210236
Abstrakt
The book Institutional Translation and Interpreting: Assessing Practices and Managing for Quality enriches the literature concerned with communication across languages in and beyond institutions with a volume devoted not only to institutional translation, but also to interpreting in the same context. Edited by Fernando Prieto Ramos - director of the Centre for Legal and Institutional Translation Studies (Transius) at the University of Geneva's Faculty of Translation and Interpreting (FTI), himself a former translator for international organisations -, the publication promises an information-laden endeavour as well as a soundly structured whole. The book delivers on both those aspects.
As reflected in its title and mentioned several times elsewhere in its pages, the book was created around the aim of shedding light on current translation and interpreting practices in institutional settings and this is what it delivers on abundantly. On the whole, the volume is an indispensable resource for translation scholars, translation and interpreting practitioners/managers and also students; it is a must-read for all who are interested in the multifaceted and compelling area of institutional translation and interpreting - theory and practice.
