Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Defining Sillan interpreters in first-millennium East Asian exchanges 1
5. Interpreting practices in the Age of Discovery 27
6. Interpreting for the Inquisition 47
7. Nagasaki Tsūji in historical novels by Yoshimura Akira 75
8. The U.S. Department of State’s Corps of Student Interpreters 99
9. At the dawn of simultaneous interpreting in the USSR 135
10. The use of photographs as historical sources, a case study 167
11. “Crime” of interpreting 193
12. Guilt, survival, opportunities, and stigma 225
13. Risk analysis as a heuristic tool in the historiography of interpreters 247
14. Name index 269
15. Subject index 273