Sonja Pöllabauer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sonja Pöllabauer plays a role.
Articles
2023 Women as interpreters in colonial New Netherland: A microhistorical study of Sara Kierstede Introducing New Hypertexts on Interpreting (Studies): A tribute to Franz Pöchhacker, Zwischenberger, Cornelia, Karin Reithofer and Sylvi Rennert (eds.), pp. 126–146
This contribution presents a case study of Sara Kierstede (aka Roelof, Van Borsum, Stouthoff), a Dutch-speaking New Netherland settler and 17th-century interpreter who was proficient in Dutch and Native American languages and served as interpreter in a male-dominated colonial environment in… read more | Chapter
2017 Chapter 7. Issues of terminology in public service interpreting: From affordability through psychotherapy to waiting lists Non-professional Interpreting and Translation: State of the art and future of an emerging field of research, Antonini, Rachele, Letizia Cirillo, Linda Rossato and Ira Torresi (eds.), pp. 131–155
This chapter focuses on interpreter-mediated institutional encounters and specialist language. Based on Niska’s (1998a; 1998b) and Valero-Garcés’(2005) taxonomies of strategies for translating specialist terminology, the author analyses instances of specialist language in a corpus of recordings of… read more | Chapter
2014 Kadric, Mira. 2011. Dialog als Prinzip. Für eine emanzipatorische Praxis und Didaktik des Dolmetschens Twenty Years EST: Same place, different times, Boyden, Michael (ed.), pp. 301–307
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2008 Counting what counts: Research on community interpreting in Germanspeaking countries—A scientometric study Target 20:2, pp. 297–332
This paper presents the results of a study on research on spoken and signed language community interpreting (CI) in German-speaking countries (Austria, Germany, German-speaking regions of Switzerland). A set of different scientometric, network analytical and text linguistic (keyword analysis, title… read more | Article
2008 An author-centred scientometric analysis of Daniel Gile's œuvre Efforts and Models in Interpreting and Translation Research: A tribute to Daniel Gile, Hansen, Gyde, Andrew Chesterman and Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast (eds.), pp. 3–24
The article begins with a quantitative scientometric study of Daniel Gile’s published writings. The study focuses on the diachronic development of Gile’s writings and several other aspects of his scientific oeuvre such as types of publications; languages of publication; media of publication;… read more | Article
2008 To count or not to count: Scientometrics as a methodological tool for investigating research on translation and interpreting Translation and Interpreting Studies 3:1/2, pp. 87–146
This paper discusses various different methods and tools of scientometrics, the way in which these can be used in translation and interpreting (T/I) studies and how T/I studies might benefit from such an approach. The authors outline both the potentials and pitfalls of such studies and discuss a… read more | Article
2007 Interpreting in asylum hearings: Issues of saving face The Critical Link 4: Professionalisation of interpreting in the community, Wadensjö, Cecilia, Birgitta Englund Dimitrova and Anna-Lena Nilsson (eds.), pp. 39–52
The study presented in this paper investigates the role of interpreters in asylum hearings in Austria. It is based on transcripts of authentic asylum hearings which were recorded at the Federal Asylum Office in Graz, Austria, and transcribed and analysed using a discourse analytical approach. In… read more | Article
2006 “Translation culture” in interpreted asylum hearings Sociocultural Aspects of Translating and Interpreting, Pym, Anthony, Miriam Shlesinger † and Zuzana Jettmarová (eds.), pp. 151–162
Research on interpreting in asylum hearings has largely been neglected in Translation Studies. However, the steadily increasing number of asylum seekers suggests that interpreting in such settings is by no means peripheral. In order to address this growing field, a research project has been based… read more | Article
2004 Interpreting in asylum hearings: Issues of role, responsibility and power Interpreting 6:2, pp. 143–180
This paper focuses on interpreting in asylum hearings, a field of research thus far largely neglected in Translation Studies. Specifically, it is based on a discourse analytical study of authentic asylum hearings recorded at the Federal Asylum Office in Graz (Austria). Some aspects of the role and… read more | Article