Translating Asymmetry – Rewriting Power
Edited by Ovidi Carbonell i Cortés and Esther Monzó-Nebot
[Benjamins Translation Library, 157] 2021. xiii, 391 pp.
Esther Monzó-Nebot
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esther Monzó-Nebot plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Communication Studies | Interpreting | Translation Studies
Ethics of Non-Professional Translation and Interpreting
Edited by Esther Monzó-Nebot and Melissa Wallace
Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 15:1 (2020) vi, 159 pp.
Subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies
Articles
2024 Healthcare interpreters X, Y, Z: Exploring generational differences in interpreters’ values and job satisfaction using self‑determination theory Translators’ and Interpreters’ Job Satisfaction, Ruokonen, Minna, Elin Svahn and Anu Heino (eds.) | Article
This study explores how differences between generations X (people born from 1965 to 1980), Y (1980s and 1990s), and Z (mid-90s to early 2000s) have an impact on healthcare interpreters’ job satisfaction. Based on self-determination theory (SDT), the paper argues that the degree to which a work… read more
2022 Integrated monolingualism and audism governing Spanish Sign-Language users’ self-determination in the legal system Unpacking Sign Language Interpreting: Special issue of the Journal on Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:3 (2022), Haualand, Hilde, Maartje De Meulder and Jemina Napier (eds.), pp. 381–405 | Article
Many legal systems have begun to adjust their social and linguistic practices to accommodate non-dominant social groups. However, linguistic diversity is often framed as an exception, and interpreters are viewed as a service to address these exceptions rather than as part of broader structural… read more
2022 La traducción y lo lúdico en el cambio social: La traducción inclusiva de Morgane contra una doxa de género dominante Babel 68:6, pp. 802–838 | Article
Gender-inclusive language, both binary and non-binary, advocates for wider visibility of non-dominant genders. However, in the Spanish context, this language, especially the binary variant, has been received with much opposition led by the institution establishing linguistic norms. This paper… read more
2021 Introduction: Translation and interpreting mediating asymmetries Translating Asymmetry – Rewriting Power, Carbonell i Cortés, Ovidi and Esther Monzó-Nebot (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Introduction
2021 Chapter 9. Translating values: Policymakers interpreting interpretation in the 2018 Aquarius refugee ship crisis Translating Asymmetry – Rewriting Power, Carbonell i Cortés, Ovidi and Esther Monzó-Nebot (eds.), pp. 197–225 | Chapter
In June 2018, the Aquarius, a search and rescue vessel operating in the Mediterranean Sea, rescued 630 migrants at sea and asked to dock at the nearest port. First Italy and then Malta refused and the dramatic situation of those on board made the news and highlighted the increasingly restrictive… read more
2021 A case study of unquiet translators: Relating legal translators’ subservient and subversive habitus to socialization Legal and institutional translation: Functions, processes, competences, Prieto Ramos, Fernando (ed.), pp. 282–307 | Article
Remarkable efforts have been made in Translation and Interpreting Studies to test the subservient habitus hypothesis formulated by Simeoni (1998) in his seminal work. In the face of increasing evidence that translators tend to reproduce a given society’s or community’s prevalent norms and… read more
2020 New societies, new values, new demands: Mapping non-professional interpreting and translation, remapping translation and interpreting ethics Ethics of Non-Professional Translation and Interpreting, Monzó-Nebot, Esther and Melissa Wallace (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Introduction
2011 Legal and translational occupations in Spain: Regulation and specialization in jurisdictional struggles Identity and Status in the Translational Professions, Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet and Miriam Shlesinger † (eds.), pp. 11–30 | Article
2009 Legal and translational occupations in Spain: Regulation and specialization in jurisdictional struggles Profession, Identity and Status: Translators and Interpreters as an Occupational Group, Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet and Miriam Shlesinger † (eds.), pp. 135–154 | Article
The aim of this article is twofold. First, I will outline a theoretical framework that synthesizes some concepts from both the sociology of professions and Bourdieu’s economy of practice. Within this framework, distinction and legitimation will be highlighted as two major strategies employed by… read more