Translation and Interpreting Conflict

Translating and Interpreting Conflict

APPROACHES TO TRANSLATION STUDIES Founded by James S. Holmes Edited by Henri Bloemen Dirk Delabastita Ton Naaijkens

Volume 28

Translating and Interpreting Conflict

Myriam Salama-Carr

Edited by

Amsterdam - New York, NY 2007

Cover image: tile from Palácio Nacional da Pena, Sintra. Cover design: Studio Pollmann The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents Requirements for permanence”. ISBN-13: 978-90-420-2200-3 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam – New York, NY 2007 Printed in The Netherlands

CONTENTS

Introduction Myriam Salama-Carr Part I Interpreters and Translators on the Front Line Interpreting and Translation for Western Media in Iraq Jerry Palmer The Practice of Translation and Interpreting During the Conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia (1991-1999) Mila Dragovic-Drouet Translators and Interpreters During the Opium War between Britain and China (1839-1842) Lawrence Wang-chi Wong Part II Intertwining Memory and Translation The Grammar of Survival. How Do We Read Holocaust Testimonies? Piotr Kuhiwczak The Troy of Always: Translations of Conflict in Christopher Logue’s War Music Paschalis Nikolaou

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Part III Language and Ideology Ideological Independence or Negative Mediation: BBC Mundo and CNN en Español’s (translated) Reporting of Madrid’s Terrorist Attacks Roberto A. Valdeón One Nation, Two Translations: China’s Censorship of Hillary Clinton's Memoir Red Chan Part IV Translation and Conflict Awareness Encounters with Cross-Cultural Conflicts in Translation Jun Tang Translating Conflict. Advertising in a Globalised Era Maria Calzada Pérez Part V Manipulating and Rewriting Texts The Translation of William Le Queux’s The Invasion of 1910: What Germany Made of Scaremongering in The Daily Mail Ian Foster Ferdinand Freiligrath, William Wordsworth, and the Translation of English... [continues]

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