Mireia Vargas-Urpi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1624240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mireia Vargas-Urpi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mireia |
| FAMILY NAME | Vargas-Urpi |
| SIGNATURE | VARGAS-URPI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6302-581X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Intermediación lingüística por parte de menores (ILM) desde la perspectiva de los progenitores
Este artículo explora el fenómeno de la intermediación lingüística por parte de menores (ILM), es decir, las tareas de traducción e interpretación que los hijos de familias inmigradas realizan para adultos con competencias lingüísticas limitadas. Partiendo del objetivo de reflejar la perspectiva de los progenitores que en alguna ocasión han recurrido a los hijos -todavía niños o adolescentes- para comunicarse en los servicios públicos, los autore…
Children and teenagers acting as language brokers
Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) usually investigates translation and interpreting by adults who perform either as professionals or amateurs. To distinguish them from professional, adult translators and interpreters they are called Child Language Brokers. This article seeks to shed some light on their reality, which has received little, if any, attention from scholars in the translation, interpreting and interculturality fields. After a…
The gift of language
The phenomenon of child language brokering (CLB), that is, translation and interpreting tasks children take on to facilitate communication for their parents and other adults, is often invisible or neglected. The present article seeks to study CLB in the province of Barcelona (Spain) through the theoretical lens of Marcel Mauss's anthropological concept of the ‘gift’. The authors employ interviews with child language brokers, young mediators and p…
Child language brokering and multilingualism in Catalonia
Children and young people from migrated families often learn host languages faster than their parents might do, and from very young ages they help their parents, families or community members by translating or interpreting, known as child language brokering (CLB). Language brokers need to mediate with different languages in different contexts and are more likely to become aware of the different status of the languages they use or are in contact w…
Translators as publishers
Motivations for volunteering have rarely been studied in the context of professional literary translators. Instead, studies have mainly focused on amateur translators in areas such as charities, fansubbing, TED, Wikipedia, Skype and Facebook. This paper explores this under-researched topic in the context of ¡Hjckrrh!, a non-profit publisher led by translators who self-publish literary translations in e-book format. As of March 2018, ¡Hjckrrh! had…
Investigar la traducción de productos culturales chinos
In a context in which Digital Humanities are changing traditional research methodologies, this article presents two open access databases on Chinese literature and cinema, two key areas of Chinese cultural production. The information contained in these two resources, available to the entire scientific community, is not only valuable for Translation Studies scholars (because they include data on their introduction in the Spanish sociocultural cont…
Community translation, Mustapha Taibi and Uldis Ozolins, (2016), London and New York
Chinese discourse and interaction
Chinese discourse and interaction: Theory and practiceYuling Pan and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.) (2013)London: Equinox Publishing. Pp. 326ISBN: 978-1-84553-632-9
Translators revising translators
This article discusses the revision process in a non-profit digital publisher led by translators and aims to fill the research gap with regard to the revision process in literary translation. ¡Hjckrrh! is a non-profit publishing initiative that has published 21 e-books translated from 7 different languages, with the collaboration of 14 translators. This article discusses the revision process in ¡Hjckrrh! by documenting the making of two e-books. …
Tipton, Rebecca and Furmanek, Olgierda (2016)
Tipton, Rebecca and Furmanek, Olgierda (2016): Dialogue Interpreting: A Guide to Interpreting in Public Services and the Community. Londres/Nueva York: Routledge, 295 p.. An article from journal Meta (Traductologie de corpus : 20 ans après), on Érudit
Official bilingualism meets de facto multilingualism
Catalonia is well known for being a bilingual region with language policies that give full support to promoting Catalan. More recently, the number of languages spoken in Catalonia has risen significantly due to immigration flows, while immigration policies encourage all citizens living in Catalonia to be able to communicate in Catalan with the public Administration. The same immigration policies, however, also acknowledge that interpreting (or in…
Judged in a Foreign Language
Recent legislation in Spain has transposed Directive 2010/64/EU, which recognises interpretation as an essential tool for safeguarding fairness in criminal proceedings, in particular, for preventing any state of defencelessness. Previous research, however, has suggested important deficiencies in court interpreting in this country. This article analyses court interpreting from Chinese to Spanish, based on a case study of a recording of a criminal …
Strategies in public service interpreting
Strategies have been far more widely researched in conference interpreting than in the interactional setting of public service interpreting (PSI), although studies of the latter by Wadensjö and other authors suggest a strategic rationale for certain types of rendition (especially non-renditions ). The present article describes an exploratory, qualitative study, based on roleplay, to identify strategies in PSI: the roleplays were designed to incor…
Problems and strategies in public service interpreting as perceived by a sample of Chinese-Catalan/Spanish interpreters
Problems and strategies have been widely discussed in Translation and Interpreting Studies, but they have received scarce attention in the field of Public Service Interpreting (PSI). On the basis of interviews with 20 public service interpreters working in the Chinese-Catalan/Spanish combination, this article analyses their answers in relation to the problems and difficulties they usually encounter, which are classified into two categories: word …
Public service interpreting for Chinese immigrants in Catalonia
Public service interpreting (PSI) for the Chinese is a reality in many European states. However, research on the specificities of interpreting for this community is rather scarce. I therefore conducted a study to shed light on this topic, focusing on PSI for the Chinese in Catalonia, a region where this service began only relatively recently. This paper discusses the results of the research. The research was conducted using a mixed method. Qualit…
Coping with Nonverbal Communication in Public Service Interpreting with Chinese Immigrants
Nonverbal communication (NVC) plays a key role in face-to-face interactions. This article explores how nonverbal communication affects interpreter-mediated interactions between Chinese immigrants living in Catalonia and local public service providers. It presents data obtained from a qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with public service interpreters and intercultural mediators, and analyses their experience in coping with nonverbal c…
Child language brokering and multilingualism in Catalonia
Children and young people from migrated families often learn host languages faster than their parents might do, and from very young ages they help their parents, families or community members by translating or interpreting, known as child language brokering (CLB). Language brokers need to mediate with different languages in different contexts and are more likely to become aware of the different status of the languages they use or are in contact w…
Translators revising translators
This article discusses the revision process in a non-profit digital publisher led by translators and aims to fill the research gap with regard to the revision process in literary translation. ¡Hjckrrh! is a non-profit publishing initiative that has published 21 e-books translated from 7 different languages, with the collaboration of 14 translators. This article discusses the revision process in ¡Hjckrrh! by documenting the making of two e-books. …
Strategies in public service interpreting
Strategies have been far more widely researched in conference interpreting than in the interactional setting of public service interpreting (PSI), although studies of the latter by Wadensjö and other authors suggest a strategic rationale for certain types of rendition (especially non-renditions ). The present article describes an exploratory, qualitative study, based on roleplay, to identify strategies in PSI: the roleplays were designed to incor…
Problems and strategies in public service interpreting as perceived by a sample of Chinese-Catalan/Spanish interpreters
Problems and strategies have been widely discussed in Translation and Interpreting Studies, but they have received scarce attention in the field of Public Service Interpreting (PSI). On the basis of interviews with 20 public service interpreters working in the Chinese-Catalan/Spanish combination, this article analyses their answers in relation to the problems and difficulties they usually encounter, which are classified into two categories: word …
Public service interpreting for Chinese immigrants in Catalonia
Public service interpreting (PSI) for the Chinese is a reality in many European states. However, research on the specificities of interpreting for this community is rather scarce. I therefore conducted a study to shed light on this topic, focusing on PSI for the Chinese in Catalonia, a region where this service began only relatively recently. This paper discusses the results of the research. The research was conducted using a mixed method. Qualit…
Coping with Nonverbal Communication in Public Service Interpreting with Chinese Immigrants
Nonverbal communication (NVC) plays a key role in face-to-face interactions. This article explores how nonverbal communication affects interpreter-mediated interactions between Chinese immigrants living in Catalonia and local public service providers. It presents data obtained from a qualitative study based on in-depth interviews with public service interpreters and intercultural mediators, and analyses their experience in coping with nonverbal c…
Public service interpreting for Chinese immigrants in Catalonia
Public service interpreting (PSI) for the Chinese is a reality in many European states. However, research on the specificities of interpreting for this community is rather scarce. I therefore conducted a study to shed light on this topic, focusing on PSI for the Chinese in Catalonia, a region where this service began only relatively recently. This paper discusses the results of the research. The research was conducted using a mixed method. Qualit…
Problems and strategies in public service interpreting as perceived by a sample of Chinese-Catalan/Spanish interpreters
Problems and strategies have been widely discussed in Translation and Interpreting Studies, but they have received scarce attention in the field of Public Service Interpreting (PSI). On the basis of interviews with 20 public service interpreters working in the Chinese-Catalan/Spanish combination, this article analyses their answers in relation to the problems and difficulties they usually encounter, which are classified into two categories: word …
Strategies in public service interpreting
Strategies have been far more widely researched in conference interpreting than in the interactional setting of public service interpreting (PSI), although studies of the latter by Wadensjö and other authors suggest a strategic rationale for certain types of rendition (especially non-renditions ). The present article describes an exploratory, qualitative study, based on roleplay, to identify strategies in PSI: the roleplays were designed to incor…
Community translation, Mustapha Taibi and Uldis Ozolins, (2016), London and New York
Chinese discourse and interaction
Chinese discourse and interaction: Theory and practiceYuling Pan and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.) (2013)London: Equinox Publishing. Pp. 326ISBN: 978-1-84553-632-9
Translators revising translators
This article discusses the revision process in a non-profit digital publisher led by translators and aims to fill the research gap with regard to the revision process in literary translation. ¡Hjckrrh! is a non-profit publishing initiative that has published 21 e-books translated from 7 different languages, with the collaboration of 14 translators. This article discusses the revision process in ¡Hjckrrh! by documenting the making of two e-books. …
Tipton, Rebecca and Furmanek, Olgierda (2016)
Tipton, Rebecca and Furmanek, Olgierda (2016): Dialogue Interpreting: A Guide to Interpreting in Public Services and the Community. Londres/Nueva York: Routledge, 295 p.. An article from journal Meta (Traductologie de corpus : 20 ans après), on Érudit
Official bilingualism meets de facto multilingualism
Catalonia is well known for being a bilingual region with language policies that give full support to promoting Catalan. More recently, the number of languages spoken in Catalonia has risen significantly due to immigration flows, while immigration policies encourage all citizens living in Catalonia to be able to communicate in Catalan with the public Administration. The same immigration policies, however, also acknowledge that interpreting (or in…
Judged in a Foreign Language
Recent legislation in Spain has transposed Directive 2010/64/EU, which recognises interpretation as an essential tool for safeguarding fairness in criminal proceedings, in particular, for preventing any state of defencelessness. Previous research, however, has suggested important deficiencies in court interpreting in this country. This article analyses court interpreting from Chinese to Spanish, based on a case study of a recording of a criminal …
Investigar la traducción de productos culturales chinos
In a context in which Digital Humanities are changing traditional research methodologies, this article presents two open access databases on Chinese literature and cinema, two key areas of Chinese cultural production. The information contained in these two resources, available to the entire scientific community, is not only valuable for Translation Studies scholars (because they include data on their introduction in the Spanish sociocultural cont…
Child language brokering and multilingualism in Catalonia
Children and young people from migrated families often learn host languages faster than their parents might do, and from very young ages they help their parents, families or community members by translating or interpreting, known as child language brokering (CLB). Language brokers need to mediate with different languages in different contexts and are more likely to become aware of the different status of the languages they use or are in contact w…
Translators as publishers
Motivations for volunteering have rarely been studied in the context of professional literary translators. Instead, studies have mainly focused on amateur translators in areas such as charities, fansubbing, TED, Wikipedia, Skype and Facebook. This paper explores this under-researched topic in the context of ¡Hjckrrh!, a non-profit publisher led by translators who self-publish literary translations in e-book format. As of March 2018, ¡Hjckrrh! had…
Children and teenagers acting as language brokers
Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS) usually investigates translation and interpreting by adults who perform either as professionals or amateurs. To distinguish them from professional, adult translators and interpreters they are called Child Language Brokers. This article seeks to shed some light on their reality, which has received little, if any, attention from scholars in the translation, interpreting and interculturality fields. After a…
The gift of language
The phenomenon of child language brokering (CLB), that is, translation and interpreting tasks children take on to facilitate communication for their parents and other adults, is often invisible or neglected. The present article seeks to study CLB in the province of Barcelona (Spain) through the theoretical lens of Marcel Mauss's anthropological concept of the ‘gift’. The authors employ interviews with child language brokers, young mediators and p…
Intermediación lingüística por parte de menores (ILM) desde la perspectiva de los progenitores
Este artículo explora el fenómeno de la intermediación lingüística por parte de menores (ILM), es decir, las tareas de traducción e interpretación que los hijos de familias inmigradas realizan para adultos con competencias lingüísticas limitadas. Partiendo del objetivo de reflejar la perspectiva de los progenitores que en alguna ocasión han recurrido a los hijos -todavía niños o adolescentes- para comunicarse en los servicios públicos, los autore…
Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Interpreter (7 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Social science (4 works)