Languages and the Military: Alliances, Occupation and Peace Building - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0230365515 ISBN 13 : 9780230365513

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Synopsis

Through detailed case studies ranging from the 18th century until today, this book explores the role of foreign languages in military alliances, in occupation and in peace building. It brings together academic researchers and practitioners from the museum and interpreting worlds and the military.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

LOUISE ASKEW has been a professional translator, interpreter and reviser working between English and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian for, amongst others, the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague and the NATO Stabilization Force HQ in Sarajevo CATHERINE BAKER Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton and Teaching Fellow in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict at University College London, UK CONSTADINA CHARALAMBOUS Lecturer in Language Education and Literacy at the European University of Cyprus MARIA MANUELA FERNANDEZ SANCHEZ Senior Lecturer in the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Granada, Spain LINDA FITCHETT Member of the International Association of Conference Interpreters (AIIC) and coordinator of the Interpreters in Conflict Areas project NICHOLAS FLETCHER has worked in English language teaching, teacher training and project management since 1973 in Italy, UK, Venezuela, China, Romania, Poland, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Colombia and Afghanistan PETER HARE has worked in English language teacher training and project management since the 1990s in Hungary, China, Georgia, Mongolia and, currently, Ethiopia FRANZISKA HEIMBURGER is finishing a PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, France SYLVIE KLEINMAN Historian and translator based in Dublin. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for War Studies, Trinity College Dublin PEKKA KUJAMAKI Professor of German (Translation and Interpreting) at the Philosophical Faculty, University of Eastern Finland LIEUTENANT COLONEL JUSTIN LEWIS runs the UK Defence Operational Languages Support Unit (DOLSU) as the languages Training Requirement Authority for the UK MOD DIARMAIT MAC GHIOLLA CHRIOST Reader in the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, UK PETRA SVOLJSAK Research counsellor at the Milko Kos Historical Institute of the research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts and assistant professor in the department of Cultural History ofthe University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia JAMES TAYLOR Head of Research and Information at the Imperial War Museum, UK SIMONA TOBIA currently teaches Modern European History at the University of Reading, UK CHRISTOPHER TOZZI PhD candidate in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0230365515
• ISBN 13: 9780230365513
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 261
• Éditeur: Footitt H., Kelly M.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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