Note-taking for Consecutive Interpreting A Short Course

Cover — Title — Copyright — Contents — About the new edition — PART I The basics step-by-step — Introduction — What is consecutive interpreting? — When is consecutive interpreting used? — Community, liaison, medical and court interpreting — About this book — Note-taking for consecutive interpreting — About the notes — About the examples — How to use the book — Practice — Miscellaneous — 1 Speech analysis — Mind maps — Sections — Section diagrams — Mini summaries — 2 Recognizing and splitting ideas — What is an idea? — Identifying ideas — 3 The beginning: diagonal notes — Subject, Verb, Object — 1. Note shorter synonyms — 2. Note a different SVO group with the same meaning — 3. Noting only two of the three elements in SVO — 4. Make several short sentences out of one long one — 4 Links — Why are links important? — Finding links — Families of links — Noting links — Moving on … — 5 Verticality and hierarchies of values — Parallel values 1 — Shifting values — Parallel values 2 — Use of brackets — 6 Symbols — What is a symbol? — Why use symbols? — What to note with symbols — How to use symbols — Organic symbols — Where to find symbols — How many symbols? — Similar but not the same — 7 Noting less — Structure reminds us of the obvious — When what comes next is obvious — Things right in front of you — Note the simple for the complicated — Stories and jokes — It depends on what you already know — 8 What to note — PART II Fine-tuning — 1 Clauses — Reported speech — Additional information — 2 Rules of abbreviation — Abstractions — Plurals — Different languages — Phonetic spelling and misspelling — 3 Verbs — Verb conjugations — Verb tenses — Modal verbs — Nouns as verbs — 4 The recall line — 5 Uses of the margin — Who? — Structural elements — Dates — Anything important!