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Language Practitioners
Improving professional capacities Among language practitioners – those who work as professional interpreters or teach and train in this area – the problematics of interlingual communication in zones of crisis and war are of central and increasing concern. One key … Continue reading
Safeguarding personnel
The other major initiative has been one of public awareness raising and personnel protection. The International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) has taken a leading role in publicizing the hitherto hidden plight of language intermediaries working in crisis zones. As Linda … Continue reading
References
Apter, Emily. 2006. The Translation Zone. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Baker, Catherine. 2012a. ‘When Bosnia was a Commonwealth Country: British Forces and Their Interpreters in Republika Srpska, 1995-2007’. In Languages and the Military : Alliances, Occupation and Peace-Building, edited by … Continue reading
Contact us
To get in touch please contact: Prof. Hillary Footitt University of Reading Email: h.a.foot@reading.ac.uk Telephone: +44 (0) 118 378 8126
About the project
Languages and international NGOs- addresses the issue of how research into languages and cultures can support the work of NGOs and aid agencies as they operate ‘on the ground’ in international conflict and crisis zones. It focuses on the language … Continue reading
The Network
The network, Languages and international NGOs: cultural knowledge in communities in crisis (LINGOS) brings together linguists, international relations specialists, NGOs and professional interpreters/translators in order to: enable the four groups to focus together on the specific issue of languages and … Continue reading
People
LINGOS is convened by a language researcher, an international relations specialist, and a professional interpreter: Hilary Footitt (Reading University) has experience in researching the role of foreign languages in war, having just completed the AHRC sponsored project, Languages at War: … Continue reading
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Aims and Objectives
LINGOS aims to bring together languages and international relations specialists, international NGOs and professional interpreters in order to develop an interdisciplinary research agenda which is of specific relevance to the language-related challenges which NGOs face, and to the role which … Continue reading