New Insights in the History of Interpreting

Editors
ORCID logoKayoko Takeda | Rikkyo University
Jesús Baigorri-Jalón | University of Salamanca
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Who mediated intercultural exchanges in 9th-century East Asia or in early voyages to the Americas? Did the Soviets or the Americans invent simultaneous interpreting equipment? How did the US government train its first Chinese interpreters? Why is it that Taiwanese interpreters were executed for Japanese war crimes? Bringing together papers from an international symposium held at Rikkyo University in 2014 along with two select pieces, this volume pursues such questions in an eclectic exploration of the practice of interpreting, the recruitment of interpreters, and the challenges interpreters have faced in diplomacy, colonization, religion, war, and occupation. It also introduces innovative use of photography, artifacts, personal journals, and fiction as tools for the historical study of interpreters and interpreting. Targeted at practitioners, scholars, and students of interpreting, translation, and history, the new insights presented in the ten original articles aim to spark discussion and research on the vital roles interpreters have played in intercultural communication through history.

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[Benjamins Translation Library, 122] 2016.  xvi, 278 pp.
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“This edited volume provides interpreting researchers with valuable information on the interpreter’s role, as well as an insight into the practices, standards and ethics of interpreting at various times and places in history, making it possible to draw parallels with interpreters and interpreting today and to see interpreting as part of a broader continuum.”
“In my view, the editors’ hope that the book will lead to subsequent conferences and publications as well as to a heightening of international dialogue on the topics at hand is justified. The greatest strength of this volume is that it will provide everyone who is interested in historical research on translating and interpreting with a wealth of invaluable new information on topics that have so far been relatively little studied. Readers will also acquire insight into various methodological procedures, and find a range of stimulating ideas for further research in this domain.”
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Baigorri-Jalón, Jesús & Lucía Ruiz Rosendo
2023. Chapter 1. Voices from around the world. In Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting [Benjamins Translation Library, 159],  pp. 1 ff. DOI logo
Buzelin, Hélène
2018. Chapter 5.9. Sociological models and translation history. In A History of Modern Translation Knowledge [Benjamins Translation Library, 142],  pp. 337 ff. DOI logo
Cunill, Caroline
2023. Chapter 2. Indigenous interpreters on trial in the Spanish Empire. In Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting [Benjamins Translation Library, 159],  pp. 25 ff. DOI logo
Falbo, Caterina
2021. Interprètes, contextes, situations : l’interprétation comme acte politique. TTR : traduction, terminologie, rédaction 34:2  pp. 149 ff. DOI logo
Haidar, Cherine & Lucía Ruiz Rosendo
2023. The impressionist tale as a way to negotiate the challenges of ethnography in field missions for international organisations. The Translator 29:2  pp. 231 ff. DOI logo
Ordóñez-López, Pilar
2020. Dealing with the Past: Definitions and Descriptions of the History of Translation. Íkala 25:3  pp. 797 ff. DOI logo
Pöchhacker, Franz
2023. Pioneering interpreting studies. Interpreting. International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting 25:2  pp. 159 ff. DOI logo
Sarmiento Pérez, Marcos
2018. The interpreter in the sacramental confession in the Catholic Church, with special attention to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain. Culture & History Digital Journal 7:1  pp. 012 ff. DOI logo
Sawyer, David B.
2021. Review of Andres, Kaindl & Kurz (2017): Dolmetscherinnen und Dolmetscher im Netz der Macht: Autobiographisch konstruierte Lebenswege in autoritären Regimen. Interpreting. International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting 23:2  pp. 321 ff. DOI logo
Valero-Garcés, Carmen
2022. Communicating in multilingual churches. FORUM. Revue internationale d’interprétation et de traduction / International Journal of Interpretation and Translation 20:2  pp. 290 ff. DOI logo

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Subjects

Translation & Interpreting Studies

Interpreting
Translation Studies

Main BIC Subject

CFP: Translation & interpretation

Main BISAC Subject

LAN023000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting
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