Framing the interpreter
Subtitle: towards a visual perspective
By: Edited by Anxo Fernández-Ocampo and Michaela Wolf
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780415712736; 9780415712743; 9781315746418
Subjects: Multimedia systems; Research; Translating and interpreting; Technological innovations; Audio-visual equipment; Photographic criticism; Semiotics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.