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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.
      510  3725
  • Publication
    Book reviews
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2016)
    Falbo, Caterina
    ;
    Riccardi, Alessandra
    ;
    Turner, Graham H.
    ;
    Gile, Daniel
      505  490
  • 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”.
      833  982
  • Publication
    Contributors
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2016)
      283  301
  • Publication
    Cowboys, Indians and Interpreters. On the controversial role of interpreters in the conquest of the American West
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2016)
    Brambilla, Emanuele
    During the nineteenth century, the United States Government engaged in frenetic negotiations with Native American tribes to persuade them to relinquish their sacred homelands by signing treaties. At these treaty negotiations, resulting in either the ethnic cleansing or the relocation of Indian tribes, interpreters were regularly present to enable communication between Native Americans and English-speaking government officials. The analysis of selected essays on the history of American Indians has provided insights into the role of interpreters in nineteenth-century America, revealing that they exerted considerable political power by acting as diplomats for the U.S. Government. After outlining the nature of interpreting in Indian-white relations, the paper focuses on land treaty negotiations between the U.S. Government and the Sioux tribes, depicting the two emblematic characters of ‘interpreters’ Charles Picotte and Samuel Hinman, who played an active role in the bloody conquest of the American West.
      1003  1028