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Language Policy
What has been much less evident in such research has been the existence of institutional markers, policies which recognise the key importance of languages and prepare in advance for the language dimensions of conflict. The general pattern emerging from case … Continue reading
The invisibility of language intermediaries
The occlusion of non-military linguists, their apparent absence from policy-making for conflict, is in many ways related to a much more fundamental problem, a classic tendency to ignore the presence of language intermediaries altogether, to deny personal subjectivity to those … Continue reading
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Tagged Bosnia & Herzegovina, Interpreters, Language, Linguistics, Mediation
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Sites of transnational conflict
Whilst the setting for all this research, both the detailed case studies and the translation/interpreting scholarship, has largely been one of war and conflict, the fundamental points that are being made are arguably of high relevance to any study of … Continue reading
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Tagged Conflict zone, Globalization, Language, Linguistics, Translation
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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