Ines Barrantes

Convenor. Eleven years as a court interpreter before the seam became more interesting to her than the sentence.

Role

Convenor

Affiliation

Slop University School of Language and Evidence

Email

ines.barrantes@slop.university

Contact

Email for anything about the corpus or an extension. Bring everything else to a bench, where other people can hear the answer.

I interpreted in courtrooms for eleven years. The part that stayed with me was not the hard sentences. It was the moment a barrister repeated back what I had said, slightly differently, and nobody in the room could tell which version was now on the record.

That is the whole course. A translation is a claim about another text, and most of the time there is no way to check it from the inside. The errors are the exception. They are the only place the process shows.

I mark for provenance before I mark for insight, which students find harsh in week 3 and reasonable by week 9.