t is late in the afternoon. Thick clouds hover over the hill towering in front of us. Hundreds of houses and small buildings cascade down the hillside. They resemble Lego bricks carelessly stacked on top of each other—like a jigsaw puzzle of bricks and mortar. I am walking in a long row of about 40 black-clad police officers moving throug…
In its 15 chapters, this edited volume explores translation-related training in institutional settings on a global scale. It is divided into three parts which cover the following: (1) Competences expected and/or required on the part of institutional translators and surveyed by several survey exercises, (2) Practices of translator training at university level, and (3) actual Practices …
Heritage comes in many shapes—in tangible forms such as sites, buildings, landscapes, or as intangibles, like memories, emotions, values and customs—as does the use of heritage, ranging from the purpose of building nations to marketing places. Heritage usually represents a phenomenon within a traditional historical discourse but have lately, more and more, come to take in peripheral appeara…