1st Edition
Interpreters’ Health and Wellbeing An Overview Across Modes, Modalities and Settings
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction. Leonardo’s question, or: what do we know about interpreters’ occupational health and safety? - Gabriele Mack & Amalia Amato
Part I - Interpreters and their working environments: general and specific features
Chapter 1 - Interpreting as a multifaceted professional activity - Amalia Amato
Chapter 2 - Interpreting as a specialized activity in multilingual individuals - John W. Schwieter and Aline Ferreira
Chapter 3 - Occupational health and safety - Roberta Bonfiglioli, Nataliia Danilevskaia and Francesco Roccuzzo
Part II - Interpreters’ occupational health and safety: hazards, health effects, and prevention
Chapter 4 - Interpreters as professional listeners - Gian Gaetano Ferri
Chapter 5 - Interpreters as professional speakers - Cecilia Botti
Chapter 6- Sign language interpreters as professional signers - Leandro Vieira Lisboa, Neuma Chaveiro and Dolors Rodríguez-Martín
Chapter 7 - Interpreters as professional cognitive multitaskers - Giulia Paganin
Chapter 8 - The impact of interpreters’ emotional involvement - Beverley Costa
Chapter 9 - Predictors of mindfulness in medical interpreters - Gretchen Roman and Ron Epstein
Chapter 10 – Simultaneous interpreters’ physical working environments: booths as a case in point - Gabriele Mack
Part III - Promoting interpreters’ health and safety: awareness and self-care
Chapter 11 - Wellbeing promoting practices for interpreters - Leonardo Brunale and Antonella Sannolla
Chapter 12 - A holistic approach to interpreters’ health - Markus Antonius Wirtz
Index
Biography
Gabriele Mack is an associate professor in German language, translation, and linguistics at the Department of Interpreting and Translation of the University of Bologna, where she teaches interpreting.
Amalia Amato, PhD, is an associate professor in English language, translation, and linguistics at the Department of Interpreting and Translation of the University of Bologna, where she teaches interpreting.
