The Care and Feeding of Linguists: The Working Environment of Interpreters, Translators, and Linguists During Peacekeeping in Bosnia-Herzegovina
The Care and Feeding of Linguists: The Working Environment of Interpreters, Translators, and Linguists During Peacekeeping in Bosnia-Herzegovina
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10.1179/204243410x12674422128993
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发表时间：
2010-10-01
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0.4
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Baker, Catherine
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作者：
Baker, Catherine
战争和维持和平的历史很少涉及语言或与他们一起工作的人，但仔细观察就会发现，在联合国和北约在波斯尼亚-黑塞哥维那进行的维持和平和建设和平行动期间，不同语言之间的接触和翻译的存在是一种常规经历。本文展示了政治、战略、战术和经济压力如何影响作为口译/笔译员/语言学家的当地平民和担任军事口译的多国部队士兵的工作生活。在这样做的过程中，它认为语际传播的历史应该包括在冲突的历史中。
The history of war and peacekeeping has little to say about languages or the people who work with them, yet a closer inspection shows that contacts between different languages and the presence of an interpreter were a routine experience during the peacekeeping and peace-building operations conducted by the UN and NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovina. This paper shows how political, strategic, tactical, and economic pressures affected the working lives of local civilians employed as interpreters/translators/linguists and the soldiers from the multinational force who served as military interpreters. In so doing, it argues that the history of interlingual communication deserves to be included in the history of conflict.