Mediating Emergencies and Conflicts : Frontline Translating and Interpreting / edited by Federico M. Federici.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Federici, Federico M., Editor.

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting, 2947-5759

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication.

Comparative literature.

Sociolinguistics.

Translating and interpreting.

Political science.

Applied linguistics.

Media and Communication.

Comparative Literature.

Language Translation.

Political Science.

Applied Linguistics.

Local Subjects:

Media and Communication.

Comparative Literature.

Sociolinguistics.

Language Translation.

Political Science.

Applied Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XV, 215 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

Contributors to this volume discuss different types of emergencies and conflicts and how challenging these multilingual operational environments are for linguists. The growth in reach and number of international relief operations has exposed the limits of current research into these challenges. Evidence in disaster management studies suggests communication remains a major operational issue. This book calls for enhanced focus on the role of translators and interpreters in emergencies by discussing existing research and questions which have emerged from experience in the field. Contributions in this volume undeniably demonstrate the need for multidisciplinary studies in mediating multilingual emergencies. They consider emergencies in hospitals (Cox and Lázaro Gutiérrez), in disaster response (Dogan), in bespoke training to translators in fast-developing crises (O’Brien), and in planning responses in predictably dangerous habitats (Razumovskaya & Bartashova). The volume also illustrates scenarios in which discourse on language mediation shows bias by limiting political dialogues (Al Shehari), by conditioning news reporting (Skorokhod), and by enforcing stereotypical notions of linguists in wars (Gaunt). Federico M. Federici is Lecturer at University College London, UK. Previously he designed and directed the MA in Translation Studies at Durham University, UK (2008-2014), where he founded and directed the Centre for Intercultural Mediation. He was member of the Board of the European Master's in Translation Network (2011-2014). Among his publications are the book Translation as Stylistic Evolution (2009) and the volume co-edited with Dario Tessicini Translators, Interpreters and Cultural Mediators (2014). His research focuses on the role of translators as intercultural mediators, and on the reception of translated texts.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: a state of emergency

PART I: EMERGENCIES IN A MULTILINGUAL CONTEXT

Chapter 2: Interpreting in the Emergency Department. How context matters for practice

Chapter 3: Anybody there? Emergency and Disaster Interpreting in Turkey

Chapter 4: Training Translators for Crisis Communication: The Translators Without Borders Example

Chapter 5: Translator’s and Interpreter’s Challenges of the 21st Century in the Russian Arctic: Mediating Emergencies

PART II: REPRESENTATIONS OF EMERGENCIES

Chapter 6: Interpreting in a State of Emergency: Adding Fuel to the Fire

Chapter 7: Representing the War in Afghanistan as an American War to Russian Audiences

Chapter 8: Ghostly Entities and Clichés: Military Interpreters in Conflict Regions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9781137553515

1137553510