1st Edition
Languages in the Crossfire Interpreters in the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
Chapter 1. Introduction: Interpreting in times of war
Chapter 2. Languages as obstacles and as vehicles of communication in the Spanish Civil War
Chapter 3. The Interpreter as an Agent of Communication in the Civil War
Chapter 4. Interpreting settings in the Spanish Civil War
Chapter 5. The thousand and one interpreters of the Spanish Civil War: Biographical notes
Chapter 6. Afterword
Biography
Jesús Baigorri-Jalón is Associate Professor Emeritus at the Department of Translation and Interpretation, University of Salamanca. He has a Master’s in History (1975) and a PhD in Translation and Interpretation (1998), University of Salamanca. He is a former staff translator and interpreter at the UN Headquarters in New York (1989–99) and a founding member of the Alfaqueque Research Group.
Translator Holly Mikkelson is Professor Emerita in the Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation and Language Education, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; certified translator and court interpreter; author of the ACEBO training manuals for court and medical interpreters; published translator, author and editor.
