Moving In-Between

The Interpreter as Ethnographer and the Interpreting-Researcher as Anthropologist

Bibliographic Data

ID10608758
AuthorsŞebnem Bahadιr (Bogaziçi University, corresponding author), Şebnem Bahadır (Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey)
Year2005
Volume49
Issue4
Pages805-821
Publication date2005-01-13
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMeta Journal des traducteurs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0026-0452 • E-ISSN: 1492-1421
PublisherConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/009783ar
OpenAlexW2054384334
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited18

My starting point in this article is the community interpreter who works in social, medical and legal settings, under specific conditions, confronting very delicate ethical problems. In search of a theoretical framework that accounts for the social roles and cultural identities of the community interpreter I began to re-read the German anthropologist and conference interpreter Heinz Göhring. His articles can be positioned between German Studies (‘Deutsch als Fremdsprache‘), intercultural communication studies (including cultural anthropology) and translation studies. I start out with his view of an ideal translator/ interpreter as cultural expert acting like a “mini-ethnographer” and try to go beyond Göhring by connecting his ideas to the concept of the critical ethnographer as model for a professional community interpreter. In this theoretical discussion I want to show how a synthesis of the framework proposed by Göhring and recent anthropological theories can be used for a new professional profile of the interpreter, not only in community settings but in general. Besides aspects concerning translation/ interpreting politics, I wish to foreground that a re-thinking of interpreter roles would/ should also affect translation/ interpreting pedagogy and research

Epistemology · Ethnography · German · Interpreter · Linguistics · Point (geometry) · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices

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