Bourdieu and public service interpreting and translation: towards a social theory in PSIT

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2010.2.5
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Public service interpreting and translating, Sociology Migration, Minority languages and cultures

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Carmen Valero Garcés
Laura Gauthier Blasi

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Within Translation Studies (TS), Public Service Interpreting and Translation (PSIT) is a relatively recent area (Critical Link 1995) still fighting for academic and professional recognition inside and outside the limits of that discipline. The growing interest in PSIT is undoubtedly linked to the migration phenomenon and the intervention of intermediaries (interpreters and translators) who make communication possible is generally recognised. But the controversy about the role(s) these intermediaries have to perform in public services seems to be one of the main difficulties to obtain academic and institutional acceptance and recognition. Following the influence of Bourdieu's social theory in certain areas of TS (Simeoni 1998; Heilbron and Sapiro 2002; Inghilleri 2003, 2005), it is our intention to apply the basic concepts of his theory (habitus, field, illusion and symbolic capital) to PSIT in an attempt to explain the performance of these ‘visible’ interpreters. New areas of research in the development of a sociological theory of PSIT will also be suggested. 

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Valero Garcés, C., & Gauthier Blasi, L. (2014). Bourdieu and public service interpreting and translation: towards a social theory in PSIT. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (2), 97–117. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2010.2.5
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