Interpreting Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Editors' Remarks -- REFERENCE -- Summary History of Language Services in the U.S. Department of State -- Working Conditions at the Nuremberg Trials -- Introduction -- Interview -- Nuremberg and the UN - Breaking New Ground -- Concluding Remarks -- The Life of a Diplomatic Interpreter: An Interview with Irena Dobosz -- History and Role of Interpreting in Africa -- Diplomatic Interpreting in Czechoslovakia -- REFERENCES -- The Sense of Situation in Conference Interpreting -- REFERENCE -- The Importance of Sight Translation in an Interpreter Training Program -- Introduction -- What is Sight Translation? -- Using Sight Translation to Prepare for a Conference -- Sight Translation in Consecutive Interpretation -- Sight Translation in Simultaneous Interpretation -- The Importance and Role of Sight Translation in the Curriculum -- Teaching Sight Translation -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCE -- The Role of Cognitive Complements in Interpreting -- The Order of Words -- Prepositions -- Number of Words -- Verbal Context -- Situational Context -- Cognitive Context -- Knowledge of the World or Encyclopedic Knowledge -- REFERENCES -- Curriculum Review at the ISIT (Mexico City) -- Background -- Curriculum Design -- Present Fourth Year Simultaneous Interpretation Program -- Present Evaluation Procedure for Fourth Year Simultaneous Interpretation Course -- Theoretical Considerations for a Subjective Grading System -- Future Professional Certificate Examination (under consideration) -- Conclusion -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Development of Legal Interpreter Education in New Jersey -- Background -- Pedagogical Issues -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- How American Courts View Defendants' Rights to Interpreters.

Official Policy Toward Court Interpretation -- How the Courts View Competency -- The Failure of Standard Testing -- Foundations of the Alleged Right to an Interpreter -- Response of Organized Court Interpreters -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The Challenge for the Court Interpreter in Southern Florida -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The Intricate Witness-Interpreter Relationship -- Interpretation at the Demjanjuk Trial -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Court Interpreting in a Multiracial Society-the Malaysian Experience -- REFERENCES -- Interpreting in Multicultural Settings -- Interpreters and Social Workers: Contemporary Professional Challenges -- Some Preliminary Findings -- Observations -- Questions -- Recommendations -- Conclusion -- Community Interpreting in the Curriculum -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Consecutive Note-Taking for Community Interpretation -- Introduction -- Contextualized Versus Non-Contextualized Information -- The Rationale for Note-Taking -- Practical Advice for the Development of a Note-Taking System -- Consecutive Note-Taking Exercises -- Conclusion -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- Community Interpreting in Australia -- REFERENCES -- Some Thoughts on the Evaluation of Simultaneous Interpretation -- Professional Standards -- Evaluation -- Scenario One: All Prerequisites are Fulfilled -- Scenario Two: Interpreting into a Foreign Language -- Scenario Three: Lack of Background Knowledge -- REFERENCES -- Should Conference Interpreters Specialize? -- Overcoming Language Barriers in European Television -- Introduction and Background -- Interpretation in the Media-Challenges and Difficulties -- Promoting the Concept of Media Interpreting -- A Scenario for the Future -- Media Translators /Interpreters-a New Job Profile? -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Contributors -- Call for Proposals: Translation: Theory and Practice -- ATA Corporate Members.

ATA Institutional Members -- American Translators Association Officers and Board of Directors, 1989 -- The series American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series.