The interpreter as a citizen diplomat
Menzel B (2019)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2019
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Book Volume: 14
Pages Range: 464-478
Journal Issue: 3
Abstract
The article presents a case of interpretation as a political activity during the Cold War. In the 1980s and 1990s, a grassroots citizen diplomacy movement was initiated by the Californian Esalen Institute, the center of the American Human Potential Movement. In and around its Soviet-American exchange program, numerous individuals, NGOs and organizations established personal relationships and professional exchange with citizens of the two super powers and travelled in both directions. Interpreters had a complex and crucial role in this exchange which was different from both the professional experience of conference and of communal interpreting.
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APA:
Menzel, B. (2019). The interpreter as a citizen diplomat. Translation and Interpreting Studies, 14(3), 464-478. https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.19030.men
MLA:
Menzel, Birgit. "The interpreter as a citizen diplomat." Translation and Interpreting Studies 14.3 (2019): 464-478.
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