New insights in the history of interpreting / edited by Kayoko Takeda, Jesús Baigorri-Jalón.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Takeda, Kayoko, editor.

Baigorri Jalón, Jesús, editor.

Series:

Benjamins translation library ; v. 122.

Benjamins translation library (BTL), 0929-7316 ; volme 122

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--History.

Translating and interpreting.

History.

Simultaneous interpreting--History.

Simultaneous interpreting.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 278 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2016]

Summary:

"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."

Contents:

Introduction / Jesús Baigorri-Jalón and Kayoko Takeda

chapter 1. Defining Sillan interpreters in first-millennium East Asian exchanges / Rachel Lung

chapter 2. Interpreting practices in the Age of Discovery: The early stages of the Spanish empire in the Americas / Icíar Alonso-Araguás

chapter 3. Interpreting for the Inquisition / Marcos Sarmiento-Pérez

chapter 4. Nagasaki Tsūji in historical novels by Yoshimura Akira: An alternative way of studying the history of interpreters / Torikai Kumiko

chapter 5. The U.S. Department of State's Corps of Student Interpreters: A precursor to the diplomatic interpreting of today? / David B. Sawyer

chapter 6. At the dawn of simultaneous interpreting in the USSR: Filling some gaps in history / Sergei Chernov

chapter 7. The use of photographs as historical sources, a case study: Early simultaneous interpreting at the United Nations. / Jesús Baigorri-Jalón

chapter 8. 'Crime' of interpreting: Taiwanese interpreters as war criminals of World War II / Shi-chi Mike Lan

chapter 9. Guilt, survival, opportunities and stigma: Japanese interpreters in the postwar occupation period (1945-1952) / Kayoko Takeda

chapter 10. Risk analysis as a heuristic tool in the historiography of interpreters: For an understanding of worst practices / Anthony pym.

Notes:

"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."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: New insights in the history of interpreting

ISBN:

9789027258670

9027258678

OCLC:

928580542