Carmen Valero-Garcés is a full professor of translation and interpreting at the University of Alcalá, Madrid, and the director of the postgraduate program in translation and interpreting. She coordinates the international conferences on public service interpreting and translation, which have been held at the University of Alcalá since 2002. Valero-Garcés is also a translator, author, and editor of many articles on translation, linguistics, and cultural studies.

Professor Valero-Garcés and her team have been committed to the international development of interpreting in the public services since 1997. In this book she invites the reader to reflect, with clarity and integrity, on the practicalities of this pivotal element for the functioning of this century’s multi-lingual social reality – which too many are trying very hard not to think about at all.

• PREFACECHAPTER IINTERLINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION: INTRODUCTION TO INTERPRETING AND TRANSLATIONCHAPTER IIPUBLIC SERVICE INTERPRETING AND TRANSLATION: THE CURRENT SITUATIONCHAPTER IIIFUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC SERVICE INTERPRETING AND TRANSLATIONCHAPTER IVINTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SERVICE INTERPRETING: TRAINING AND PRACTICECHAPTER VINTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SERVICE TRANSLATIONCHAPTER VIGENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INTERPRETING AND TRANSLATIONINDEX