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Humanitarian Interpreting in the Age of COVID-19

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Translation and Interpreting in the Age of COVID-19

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This chapter describes the study of humanitarian interpreting as an emerging discipline within Translation and Interpreting Studies. Its aim is to chart the rapidly expanding volume of literature on humanitarian interpreting and describe the state of the field in the age of COVID-19 pandemic. It first provides an overview of the impact of the pandemic on the provision of humanitarian aid, as a general topic, to then focus on humanitarian interpreting. The chapter offers some background information on the definition of “humanitarian interpreting”, as framed within the broader field of crisis translation, to subsequently address the challenges that humanitarian organizations and their interpreters face in their efforts to meet the needs posed by multilingual and multicultural communication, especially after the outbreak of the pandemic. It concludes with some recommendations for future research in the field of humanitarian interpreting.

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    Lucía Ruiz Rosendo & Maura Radicioni

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    Andrew K. F. Cheung

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Ruiz Rosendo, L., Radicioni, M. (2022). Humanitarian Interpreting in the Age of COVID-19. In: Liu, K., Cheung, A.K.F. (eds) Translation and Interpreting in the Age of COVID-19. Corpora and Intercultural Studies, vol 9. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6680-4_9

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