Communication, Interpreting and Language in Wartime
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Editors: Laugesen, Amanda, Gehrmann, Richard (Eds.)
- Juxtaposes historical and contemporary perspectives on themes such as intercultural communication, translating and interpreting in difficult circumstances
- Explores the challenges that languages pose for effective communication in a military context, and the consequences for the military and for civilian society
- Includes first-hand experiences of military language teaching, interpreting at a war crimes trial and of being a frontline interpreter in Iraq
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- About this book
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This edited book provides a multi-disciplinary approach to the topics of translation and cross-cultural communication in times of war and conflict. It examines the historical and contemporary experiences of interpreters in war and in war crimes trials, as well as considering policy issues in communication difficulties in war-related contexts. The range of perspectives incorporated in this volume will appeal to scholars, practitioners and policy-makers, particularly in the fields of translating and interpreting, conflict and war studies, and military history.
- About the authors
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Amanda Laugesen is Director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University. She is the author of a number of books, including Furphies and Whizz-bangs: Anzac Slang from the Great War (2015) and Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War (2017).
Richard Gehrmann is Senior Lecturer in International Studies at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. He has published on war and society and (with Jessica Gildersleeve) is co-editor of the book Memory and the Wars on Terror: Australian and British Perspectives (2017).
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Communication, Interpreting and Language in Wartime
- Book Subtitle
- Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
- Editors
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- Amanda Laugesen
- Richard Gehrmann
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-27037-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-27037-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-27036-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 269
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
- Topics
