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  • Publication
    The Interpreters' Newsletter n. 21/2016. Interpreting and interpreters throughout history
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2016)
    Founded in 1988 as the first journal on Interpreting Studies, The Interpreters’ Newsletter publishes contributions covering theoretical and practical aspects of interpreting.
      492  3318
  • Publication
    Book reviews
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2016)
    Falbo, Caterina
    ;
    Riccardi, Alessandra
    ;
    Turner, Graham H.
    ;
    Gile, Daniel
      501  462
  • Publication
    Going back to Ancient Egypt: were the Princes of Elephantine really ‘overseers of dragomans’?
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2016)
    Falbo, Caterina
    Among the different titles the Princes of Elephantine had, that of “overseers of dragomans” has drawn the attention of researchers in the history of interpretation. This title has always appeared as a recognition of the status and importance interpreters enjoyed in Ancient Egypt. The denomination “overseer of dragomans” is the translation that Sir Alan Gardiner proposed of inscriptions found in different regions of Ancient Egypt, among which the island of Elephantine. In 1960, Goedicke criticised Gardiner’s translation on the basis of historical and linguistic reasons. His objections, unknown to the Interpreting Studies community until today, seem to deny the role of the Princes of Elephantine as “overseers of dragomans”.
      813  837
  • Publication
    Sign language and interpreting: a diachronic symbiosis
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2016)
    Kellett Bidoli, Cynthia
    In the past when deaf people had no opportunity to learn to read, write or even speak, the aid of ad hoc ‘interpreters’ was the only means available to communicate with the hearing. This paper seeks to inform practitioners and researchers of spoken language interpreting a little about the historical evolution of interpreting for deaf individuals, about deafness, sign language use, historical developments in deaf education and the emergence of professional sign language interpreting.
      782  626
  • Publication
    Contributors
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2016)
      277  280