New Insights in the History of Interpreting / Kayoko Takeda, Jesús Baigorri-Jalón.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Takeda, Kayoko, editor.

Baigorri Jalón, Jesús, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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? 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 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 aim to spark discussion and research on the vital roles interpreters have played in intercultural communication through history.

Contents:

1 Articles

2 Introduction p. vii / Jesús Baigorri-Jalón; Kayoko Takeda

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

4 Interpreting practices in the Age of Discovery p. 27 / Icíar Alonso Araguás

5 Interpreting for the Inquisition p. 47 / Marcos Sarmiento Pérez

6 Nagasaki Tsūji in historical novels by Yoshimura Akira p. 75 / Kumiko Torikai

7 The U.S. Department of State's Corps of Student Interpreters p. 99 / David B. Sawyer

8 At the dawn of simultaneous interpreting in the USSR p. 135 / Sergei Chernov

9 The use of photographs as historical sources, a case study p. 167 / Jesús Baigorri-Jalón

10 "Crime" of interpreting p. 193 / Shi-chi Mike Lan

11 Guilt, survival, opportunities, and stigma p. 225 / Kayoko Takeda

12 Risk analysis as a heuristic tool in the historiography of interpreters p. 247 / Anthony Pym

13 Name index p. 269

14 Subject index p. 273.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101137

ISBN:

9789027258670