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From the Page to the Battlefield and Back: Translating War

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This chapter provides an overview of the way translation and interpreting studies have engaged with issues of language mediation in conflict situations and have articulated conceptualisations of conflict. Arguing that the sub-discipline of translation and interpreting in war is now recognised as a defined site of inquiry, the chapter discusses some of the challenges presented by more diffuse forms of ‘perpetual war’, including fake news and a climate of so-called post-truth.

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Salama-Carr, M. (2019). From the Page to the Battlefield and Back: Translating War. In: Kelly, M., Footitt, H., Salama-Carr, M. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Languages and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04825-9_4

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