170 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
170 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this timely study, Inghilleri examines the interface between ethics, language, and politics during acts of interpreting, with reference to two particular sites of transnational conflict: the political and judicial context of asylum adjudication and the geo-political context of war. The book characterizes the social and moral spaces in which the translation of the spoken word occurs in ways that... Read more
1. The Significance of Language in Translation 2. Ethical Communication 3. Morality and im/partiality on trial: towards a justice-seeking ethics 4. Linguistic hospitality and the foreigner: interpreting for asylum applicants 5. Just interpreting: local and contract interpreters in Iraq 6. The interpreter’s visibility
Biography
Moira Inghilleri is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London and Co-editor of The Translator. Her research has appeared in a number of journals and edited collections, including two special-edited issues of The Translator: Bourdieu and the Sociology of Translation and Translation and Violent Conflict.
