“Who are you standing with?”: cultural (self-re)translation of a Russian-speaking conference immigrant-interpreter in Israel during the war in Ukraine

IF 1.4 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Multilingua-Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication Pub Date : 2023-10-06 DOI:10.1515/multi-2023-0054
Tanya Voinova
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Abstract The war in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, has led to a significant civilian involvement in Israel, particularly among immigrants from the former Soviet Union, who began to provide humanitarian assistance, including interpreting. Highlighting the interrelation between translation and migration, I argue that the war strongly affects multiple hybrid identities of immigrant-interpreters who along with interlingual translation engage also in processes of cultural (self-re)translation. Scholarly attention for such experiences has been relatively limited, since most research on interpreting in war and conflict has prioritized interpreter experiences within war struck regions. Little attention has also been devoted to the work of (conference) interpreters who are themselves immigrants. In this autoethnographic study therefore, I present my own experience during the war as both an immigrant from Russia and a conference interpreter who works with Russian and Hebrew. I discuss several aspects pertinent to the immigrant-interpreter experience within and beyond the interpreting practice: being part of a collective of immigrants, involved in humanitarian assistance; negotiating the devaluation of Russian(ness); facing challenges to the (in)visibility, implied in the interpreter’s role; and moving in-between the origin and the host countries.
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“你站在谁一边?”:乌克兰战争期间,一位在以色列讲俄语的会议移民口译员的文化(自我重新)翻译
乌克兰战争于2022年2月24日开始,导致大量平民参与以色列,特别是前苏联移民,他们开始提供人道主义援助,包括口译。强调翻译与移民之间的相互关系,我认为战争强烈影响了移民口译员的多重混合身份,他们与语际翻译一起参与文化(自我重新)翻译过程。对于这种经历的学术关注相对有限,因为大多数关于战争和冲突中的口译研究都优先考虑了受战争影响地区的口译经历。很少有人关注本身就是移民的(会议)口译员的工作。因此,在这本自传体的民族志研究中,我呈现了我自己在战争期间的经历,作为一名来自俄罗斯的移民和一名用俄语和希伯来语工作的会议口译员。我将讨论与口译实践内外的移民口译经验相关的几个方面:作为移民集体的一部分,参与人道主义援助;谈判卢布贬值;面对(in)可见性的挑战,隐含在解释器的角色中;在来源国和东道国之间移动。
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期刊介绍: Multilingua is a refereed academic journal publishing six issues per volume. It has established itself as an international forum for interdisciplinary research on linguistic diversity in social life. The journal is particularly interested in publishing high-quality empirical yet theoretically-grounded research from hitherto neglected sociolinguistic contexts worldwide. Topics: -Bi- and multilingualism -Language education, learning, and policy -Inter- and cross-cultural communication -Translation and interpreting in social contexts -Critical sociolinguistic studies of language and communication in globalization, transnationalism, migration, and mobility across time and space
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