[lg policy] book notice: Interpreting Justice: Ethics, Politics and Language

[Harold Schiffman]

Interpreting Justice: Ethics, Politics and Language

Series Title: Routledge Advances in Translation Studies
Published: 2011
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
                http://www.routledge.com/

Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415897235/

Author: Moira Inghilleri

Abstract:

In this timely study, Inghilleri examines the interface between
ethics, language, and politics during acts of interpreting, with
reference to two particular sites of transnational conflict: the
political and judicial context of asylum adjudication and the
geo-political context of war. The book characterizes the social and
moral spaces in which the translation of the spoken word occurs in
ways that reflect the realities of the trans-nationally constituted,
locally and globally informed environments in which interpreters work
alongside other professionals. One of the core arguments is that the
rather restricted notion of neutrality that remains central to
translator and interpreter practices does not adequately reflect the
complex and paradoxical nature of these socially and politically
inscribed encounters and others like them. Inghilleri aims to
characterize the moral, social, and interactional spaces in which the
translation of the spoken word occurs in ways that reflect the
realities of the transnationally constituted, locally and globally
inflected environments in which interpreters work. This study offers
an alternative theoretical perspective on language and ethics to those
which have shaped and informed translation and interpreting theory and
practice in recent years.

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