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Foreign Language Services at the Italian Ministry of the Interior with a Focus on L2 Translation

Serpentini, Carla
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Iaboni, Cinzia
2016
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1722-5906
DOI
10.13137/2421-6763/13666
http://hdl.handle.net/10077/13666
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2421-6763
Abstract
Translating in a national institutional setting such as the Italian Ministry of the Interior poses unique challenges to in-house professional translators as they endeavour to convey the “voice” of the public administration to a large and diverse international audience of practitioners and private citizens who interact with the Ministry for various reasons on a daily basis. Starting from an overview of foreign language services provided by the Ministry’s staff linguists, this paper focuses on translation services and explores in detail text types, clients and readership and the special challenges represented by L2 translation along with the strategies and practices adopted by staff translators to cater for the specific translation needs of both central and peripheral offices of the Interior Ministry. To illustrate all this, the two authors have drawn extensively on their own daily experience as staff linguists within two different structures of the Ministry, namely the Criminal Police Directorate in Rome and the Police Headquarters of Gorizia, offering a number of practical examples of translation of Italian texts into English, their L2 and the preferred choice for almost the totality of the Ministry’s communication needs.
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Rivista internazionale di tecnica della traduzione = International Journal of Translation
18
Subjects
  • Institutional transla...

  • language services

  • staff linguists

  • L2 translation

  • legal translation

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EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
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Carla Serpentini, Cinzia Iaboni, "Foreign Language Services at the Italian Ministry of the Interior with a Focus on L2 Translation", in: "Rivista internazionale di tecnica della traduzione = International Journal of Translation n.18 - 2016", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, Trieste, pp. 61-92
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