Interpreters and interpreting in conflict zones and scenarios: A historical perspective
Journal: Linguistica Antverpiensia New Series – Themes in Translation Studies
Year: 2016

This article presents an overview of interpreting in conflict zones and scenarios in different periods of history as represented in the papers included in the special issue. Conflict between parties with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds is pervasive in human history and has always involved interpreters in the sense of intercultural and linguistic mediators. Although interpreting became highly professionalized from the second half of the twentieth century, language brokering in confl