Framing the Interpreter: Towards a visual perspective

by Anxo Fernandez-Ocampo (Editor), Michaela Wolf (Editor)

Overview

Situations of conflict offer special insights into the history of the interpreter figure, and specifically the part played in that history by photographic representations of interpreters.

This book analyses photo postcards, snapshots and press photos from several historical periods of conflict, associated with different photographic technologies and habits of image consumption: the colonial period, the First and Second World War, and the Cold War. The book’s methodological approach to the "framing" of the interpreter uses tools taken primarily from visual anthropology, sociology and visual syntax to analyse the imagery of the modern era of interpreting. By means of these interpretative frames, the contributions suggest that each culture, subculture or social group constructed its own representation of the interpreter figure through photography.

The volume breaks new ground for image-based research in translation studies by examining photographic representations that reveal the interpreter as a socially constructed category. It locates the interpreter’s mediating efforts at the core of the human sciences.

This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in translation and interpreting studies, as well as to those working in visual studies, photography, anthropology and military/conflict studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415712736
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/25/2014
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anxo Fernández-Ocampo is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Philology and Translation, University of Vigo, Spain.

Michaela Wolf is Associate Professor at the Department of Translation Studies, University of Graz, Austria. She is the author of Die vielsprachige Seele Kakaniens. Übersetzen und Dolmetschen in der Habsburgermonarchie 1848 bis 1918 (2012).

Table of Contents

Part I: Methodological approaches Part II: Colonial Exposures Part III: First World War: Messengers of victory Part IV: Second World War: Power in many guises Part V: Cold War: The field, the table and the booth

Editorial Reviews

'Framing the Interpreter is a ground-breaking volume that illuminates the power of visual media to shape our understanding of interpreters and interpreter mediation in situations of conflict and beyond. A rich source of conceptual tools and methodological guidance, this work will appeal to scholars working at the interface of disciplines.' Rebecca Tipton, University of Manchester, UK

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