Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Legal and translational occupations in Spain: Regulation and specialization in jurisdictional struggles 11
6. Effectiveness of translator certification as a signaling device: Views from the translator recruiters 31
7. Conference interpreting: Surveying the profession 49
8. Occupation or profession: A survey of the translators' world 65
9. Attitudes to role, status and professional identity in interpreters and translators with Chinese in Shanghai and Taipei 89
10. Conference interpreters and their self-representation: A worldwide webbased survey 119
11. Habitus and self-image of native literary author-translators in diglossic societies 135
12. The people behind the words: Professional profiles and activity patterns of translators of Arabic literature into Hebrew (1896–2009) 155
13. Revised translations, revised identities: (Auto)biographical contextualization of translation 173
14. Conference interpreters and their perception of culture: From the narratives of Japanese pioneers 189
15. Images of the court interpreter: Professional identity, role definition and self-image 209
16. A professional ideology in the making: Bilingual youngsters interpreting for their communities and the notion of (no) choice 231
17. "Boundary work" as a concept for studying professionalization processes in the interpreting field 247
18. The task of the interpreter in the struggle of the other for empowerment: Mythical utopia or sine qua non of professionalism? 263
19. Index 279