Testing and Assessment in Translation and Interpreting Studies, edited by Claudia V. Angelelli and Holly E. Jacobson. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. vi + 386 pp. $143.00 hardcover/e-book. ISBN 978-90-272-3190-1 (hardcover)/978-90-272 8902-5 (e-book)

摘要

Translation and interpreting are often considered a matter of "a guild" (Bell 1989, xi) involving internal rules and processes that will eventually lead the anointed candidate to mastery. As Roger Bell points out, the ways of the guild also implied exclusivity, and such a closed system was founded on the preservation of the hard-won rights of its members. Whether or not such a description would still be considered valid, although the process of translation is an activity with which we, as laypeople, are all involved on daily basis, it is without a doubt a profession involving its own special skills, codes of conduct, and criteria of performance.