The paratraduction of the identity in community interpreting and translating

Abstract

When we address the issue of identity in TIMS spaces, we face an essential question. Indeed, the relationship with the other is evident in Health practices. What about these relationships, when the cultural diversity of our current societies redraws the patterns of identity established in previous models? In this chapter we will deal with the question of identity in TIMS using a level analysis. These levels are those defined by the T&P research group of the University of Vigo. Thus, we will begin our analysis with the empirical - or paratraductive - level to reveal some of the most apparent elements that goes with or surround the notion of identity in TIMS. In a second step we will approach the sociological - or protraductive - level in which we will see what are the relationships between space in general, health spaces and the notion of identity. Finally, we will reach the discursive - or metatraductive - level to understand how words from other scientific fields extend the notion of identity and translate it into other discourses which go beyond the framework of TIMS, but which nonetheless serve to professional practice of translator-interpreter in TIMS.