21st century Czech society can't make itself understood by foreigners: what do community interpreters say to that?

Abstract

The collective monograph is published to mark the 55th anniversary of the establishment of university translator and interpreter training in Prague (the academic year 1963/1964). It presents the recent research of four graduates of the Institute of Translation Studies, at the Faculty of Arts, of Charles University, Prague (Jiřina Holkupová, Libor Nenutil, Dita Štěpánková a Kateřina Vávrová),.

This research was the subject ot their theses and focuse on community interpreting (the role of the community interpreter; communication with the foreign pupils and their families in primary schools; multilingual communication in the healthcare in Prague; community interpreting in the employment agency).

Keywords

• collective monograp
• community interpreting in Czech republic
• the role of public service interpreter
• interpretation in schools
• multilingual communication in the hospitals in Prague
• community interpreter in the employment agency.