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

Författare

• Franziska Heimburger EHESS Paris, CRH

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61200/mikael.129671

Nyckelord:

translation history, dictionaries, military interpreting, terminology

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.