1st Edition
Critical Approaches to Institutional Translation and Interpreting Challenging Epistemologies
This collection re-envisions the academic study of institutional translation and interpreting (ITI), uncovering the ways in which institutional practices have inhibited knowledge creation and encouraging stakeholders to continue to challenge the assumptions and epistemics which underpin the field.
ITI is broadly conceived here as translation and interpreting delivered in or for specific organizations and institutional social systems, spanning national, supranational, and international organizations as well as financial markers, universities, and national courts. This volume is organized around three sections, which collectively interrogate the knower – the field itself – to engage in questions around “how we know what we know” in ITI and how institutions have contributed to or hindered the social practice of knowledge creation in ITI studies. The first section challenges the paths which have led to current epistemologies of ignorance while the second turns the critical lens on specific institutional practices. The final section explores specific proposals to challenge existing epistemologies by broadening the scope of ITI studies.
Giving a platform to perspectives which have been historically marginalized within ITI studies and new paths to continue challenging dominant assumptions, this book will appeal to scholars and policymakers in translation and interpreting studies.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
1. Challenging Epistemologies in Institutional Translation and Interpreting Studies.
Esther Monzó-Nebot
Section I: Challenging current epistemologies of ignorance
2. Institutional Data in Language Industry Studies: Questions of Access, Confidentiality, And Epistemology. Christopher D. Mellinger
3. Tearing Down the Bypass, Rebuilding Main Street: Uncovering Epistemic Injury, Violence, And Erasure in Signed Language Interpretation. Naomi Sheneman & Octavian Robinson
4. Hidden Researchers? The Epistemological Implications of Researchers’ Self-Positioning in Participatory Studies on Institutional Translation and Interpreting. María Lomeña-Galiano
Section II: Challenging institutional practices
5. Mexican National Indigenous Languages and Public Service Connections. An Ethnographic Decolonial Perspective. Cristina Kleinert & Christiane Stallaert
6. Exploring the Influence of EU Institutions on Remote Interpreting: A Practice-Based Epistemological Perspective. Deborah Giustini
7. Interpreters Manterrupted: The Relevance of Gender in Court Interruption Patterns. Esther Monzó-Nebot & Sara Elizabeth “Elle” Dowd
Section III: Uncharted Spaces of Institutional Translation and Interpreting
8. Invisible researchers: Empowering practicing US court interpreters to leverage and co-create scholarly inquiry. Melissa Wallace
9. Hidden Translation in Financial Markets. Thomas A. Hanson
10. Indirect Translation in And for Institutions: Revealing Loopholes. Hanna Pieta
Conclusions
11. Taking Stock and Setting Agendas for Institutional Translation and Interpreting Studies. Esther Monzó-Nebot & María Lomeña-Galiano
Index
Biography
Esther Monzó-Nebot is an associate professor in translation and interpreting in the Department of Translation and Communication Studies at Universitat Jaume I, Spain.
María Lomeña-Galiano is an associate professor in translation studies in the Department of Languages Applied to Business and Translation at Rennes 2 University, France.
