Getting at language use in translation history through dictionaries produced for interpreters

Getting at language use in translation history through dictionaries produced for interpreters

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Heimburger, F. 2010.

Abstract:

This paper examines dictionaries produced for military interpreters on the Western Front during the
First World War as a source on the history of military interpreting. Methods from lexicography,
translation studies, and the cultural history of the First World War provide us with possible approaches
to this unique trace of language use in the past. History of translation and interpreting is
thus shown to be in construction on the boundaries of several disciplines which mutually enrich
each other.