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Volume 7: Issue 2
Interpreters and Ideology: From 'Between' to 'Within'
Author:
Franz Pöchhacker Center for Translation Studies, University of Vienna Gymnasiumstr. 50, 1190 Vienna (Austria)

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Pages:
191–207
Online Publication Date:
11 Oct 2006
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2006
Article Category:
Journal Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/Acr.7.2006.2.3
Keywords:
ideology; involvement; impartiality; conference interpreting
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Ideology was not an issue in the literature on interpreting until very recently. When the subject of ideology emerged in translation studies in the late 1990s, interpreting researchers were only just beginning to move beyond the traditional concern with (conference) interpreters' psycholinguistic processing skills and cognitive functions to include problems of cross-cultural interaction in their purview. This exploratory paper therefore reviews the development of the interpreting profession from the conceptual vantage point of 'ideology', focusing on the common pejorative, political sense of the term. The positionality of interpreters as agents 'between' ideologies will be traced through the profession's development before some examples will be given of how interpreters, their professional organizations and training institutions have become 'involved' in and with ideology, and to what extent such involvement has been acknowledged. As will be seen, closer examination of the relationship between interpreters and ideology is warranted even on a narrow, political understanding of the term, but especially if ideology is reconceptualized in the broader sense used in recent scholarship.

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  • Andrew CHESTERMAN (University of Helsinki, Finland)
  • Kirsten MALMKJÆR (University of Leicester, UK)
  • Christiane NORD (University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)
  • Anthony PYM (Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, University of Melbourne, Australia)
  • Mary SNELL-HORNBY (University of Vienna, Austria)
  • Sonja TIRKKONEN-CONDIT (University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland)

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  • Mona BAKER (Shanghai International Studies University, China, University of Oslo, Norway)
  • Łucja BIEL (University of Warsaw, Poland)
  • Gloria CORPAS PASTOR (University of Malaga, Spain; University of Wolverhampton, UK)
  • Rodica DIMITRIU (Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iasi, Romania)
  • Birgitta Englund DIMITROVA (Stockholm University, Sweden)
  • Sylvia KALINA (Cologne Technical University, Germany)
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  • Sara LAVIOSA (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
  • Brian MOSSOP (York University, Toronto, Canada)
  • Orero PILAR (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain)
  • Gábor PRÓSZÉKY (Hungarian Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungary)
  • Alessandra RICCARDI (University of Trieste, Italy)
  • Edina ROBIN (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
  • Myriam SALAMA-CARR (University of Manchester, UK)
  • Mohammad Saleh SANATIFAR (independent researcher, Iran)
  • Sanjun SUN (Beijing Foreign Studies University, China)
  • Anikó SOHÁR (Pázmány Péter Catholic University,  Hungary)
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  • Albert VERMES (Eszterházy Károly University, Hungary)
  • Yifan ZHU (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univeristy, China)

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