Rules of professional conduct

Viezzi, Maurizio (author)

All professional associations of interpreters and many institutions working with interpreters produce deontological documents (codes of ethics, codes of professional ethics, codes of conduct, standards of practice, etc.) containing principles and rules governing the interpreters’ activity. Most of the princi-ples and rules are straightforward and seem to be based on solid common sense. Others appear sound at first sight, but are inherently fuzzy, e.g. those concerning accuracy, or potentially controversial, e.g. those concerning confi-dentiality or impartiality. After briefly considering the concepts of ethics and professional ethics, and presenting the main features characterising deon-tological documents, the chapter discusses professional principles and rules with reference to over 20 documents published by a variety of bodies and in-stitutions (judicial and healthcare institutions, professional associations of spoken language interpreters, sign language interpreters, court interpreters, healthcare interpreters, etc.). The principles and rules taken into consideration are: accuracy, confidentiality, impartiality, competence, professional conduct, role boundaries and professional development. The chapter ends with a pro-posal about how to structure training on this topic and with some suggestions for further reading.

• Language: English
• Keywords: deontological documents, professional rules, accuracy, impartial-ity, confidentiality
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: Str. 136-154
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-125101
• Publication date in RUL: 04.03.2021

Record is a part of a monograph

• Title: Teacher education for community interpreting and intercultural mediation : selected chapters
• Editors: Nike Kocijančič-Pokorn, Maurizio Viezzi, Tatjana Radanović Felberg
• Place of publishing: Ljubljana
• Publisher: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete = Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts : Nacionalni inštitut za javno zdravje = National Institute of Public Health
• Year: 2020
• ISBN: 978-961-06-0402
• COBISS.SI-ID: 39104003

Licences

• License: CC BY-SA 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Description: This Creative Commons license is very similar to the regular Attribution license, but requires the release of all derivative works under this same license.
• Licensing start date: 04.03.2021

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: Erasmus+