Ethics in Public Service Interpreting

Introduction

Part I: Situating Interpreting Ethics in Moral Philosophy

1.1 Introduction: Sector-specific interpreting. Interpreter agency and ethical challenges

1.2 Contextualising PSI ethics: history, philosophy and professional practice

1.3 Ethics in Philosophy

1.4 Loyalty, Honesty and Truth-Telling. The foundation of the accuracy ethic?

1.5 The Philosophy of Ethics: a brief look at the development of some central tenets

1.6 The Ethics of translation – ethics in Translation Studies

1.7 Summing Up: The PSI–Moral Philosophy ethical interface

Concluding remarks: The existential anguish of choice and decision-making

References

Part II: Codes of Ethics

2.1 Historical Examples of Interpreter Ethics

2.2 Regulation of Professions

2.3 Association codes of ethics

2.4 Advocacy

2.5 Company codes of ethics for interpreters

2.6 The Norwegian example

2.7 Intercultural Mediators

2.8 Conclusion

2.9 Ethics in Real Life Cases

Conclusion

References

Part III: Ethics and Profession

3.1 Why do we need professional ethics?

3.2 What is a profession?

3.3 How extensive a domain for the interpreter’s exercise of discretion?

3.4 Interpreting as interaction

3.5 Ethics, trust and the organisational aspect of professions

Conclusion: Ethics, education and professional integrity

References

Index