nam a22 c 4500 bct.32/136008685 nljbp 250625020604.1 cr ||||||||||| 241216s2011 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2011026796 9789027285010 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P306 418/.02 23 CFP bicssc LAN023000 bisacsh Identity and Status in the Translational Professions Edited by Rakefet Sela-Sheffy and Miriam Shlesinger † Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 ©2011 1 online resource (xiii, 282 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Benjamins Current Topics 1874-0081 32 Includes bibliographical references and index. Preface -- Legal and translational occupations in Spain: Regulation and specialization in jurisdictional struggles / Esther Monzó-Nebot -- Effectiveness of translator certification as a signaling device: Views from the translator recruiters / Andy Lung Jan Chan -- Conference interpreting: Surveying the profession / Franz Pöchhacker -- Occupation or profession: A survey of the translators' world / David Katan -- Attitudes to role, status and professional identity in interpreters and translators with Chinese in Shanghai and Taipei / Robin Setton and Alice Guo Liangliang -- Conference interpreters and their self-representation: A worldwide webbased survey / Cornelia Zwischenberger -- Habitus and self-image of native literary author-translators in diglossic societies / Reine Meylaerts -- The people behind the words: Professional profiles and activity patterns of translators of Arabic literature into Hebrew (1896–2009) / Hannah Amit-Kochavi -- Revised translations, revised identities: (Auto)biographical contextualization of translation / Elena Baibikov -- Conference interpreters and their perception of culture: From the narratives of Japanese pioneers / Kumiko Torikai -- Images of the court interpreter: Professional identity, role definition and self-image / Ruth Morris -- A professional ideology in the making: Bilingual youngsters interpreting for their communities and the notion of (no) choice / Claudia V. Angelelli -- "Boundary work" as a concept for studying professionalization processes in the interpreting field / Nadja Grbić -- The task of the interpreter in the struggle of the other for empowerment: Mythical utopia or sine qua non of professionalism? / Şebnem Bahadır This volume contributes to the emerging research on the social formation of translators and interpreters as specific occupational groups. Despite the rising academic interest in sociological perspectives in Translation Studies, relatively little research has so far been devoted to translators’ social background, status struggles and sense of self. The articles assembled here zoom in on the “groups of individuals” who perform the complex translating and/or interpreting tasks, thereby creating their own space of cultural production. Cutting across varied translatorial and geographical arenas, they reflect a view of the interrelatedness between the macro-level question of professional status and micro-level aspects of practitioners’ identity. Addressing central theoretical issues relating to translators’ habitus and role perception, as well as methodological challenges of using qualitative and quantitative measures, this endeavor also contributes to the critical discourse on translators’ agency and ethics and to questions of reformulating their social role.The contributions to this volume were originally published in Translation and Interpreting Studies 4:2 (2009) and 5:1 (2010). Provided by publisher. Translation Studies Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet editor Shlesinger, Miriam editor Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 9789027202512 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/bct.32 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027285010