CROSSING BARRIERS & BRIDGING CULTURES Edited by Arturo Tosi (Royal Holloway, University of London)

This collection of papers offers a unique insight into the world’s largest translation service from the point of view of the translators themselves. No longer invisible, professional translators here voice their own views on their experience of working life in a multilingual community and on the endless challenge of safeguarding this multilingualism. I hope this book will remind scholars of the centrality of this kind of translation in today’s world: it also demonstrates what we can learn from listening to the professionals themselves. Andrew Chesterman, University of Helsinki

DESCRIPTION This book assumes particular significance today in that for the first time translators from different linguistic backgrounds discuss multilingual translation in the European Union. All articles in this book stress the political dimension of multilingualism, and the professional role of the translator as communicator, on which much of the credibility of a Union “speaking with one voice in many languages” will ultimately depend.

CONTENTS PART ONE THE TRANSLATION OF LANGUAGES IN CONTACT Barry Wilson The Translation Service in the EU Parliament John Trim European Multilingualism and Languages in Contact Christopher Rollason Anglicisms in Contemporary French Renato Correia Translation of EU Legal Texts Arturo Tosi European Affairs: the Writer, the Translator and the Reader

PART TWO THE MAKING OF A SINGLE EUROPEAN VOICE Anne Tucker Computer Translation in the EU Parliament Luca Tomasi Translating Transparency in the EU Commission Freddie De Corte The Contribution of Freelance Translators Christopher Cook Helping the Journalist to Translate for the Reader

PART THREE THE DEBATE BETWEEN INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS Helen Swallow Linguistic interpenetration or cultural contamination ? Nichole Buchin & Edward Seymour Equivalences or divergences in legal translation ? Christopher Rollason Opacity or User-Friendliness? Sylvia Ball Multilingualism: Barrier or Bridge? Arturo Tosi Closing Remarks

AUTHOR INFORMATION Arturo Tosi was born and raised in Italy but has taught in British universities for many years. He has researched extensively into sociolinguistics, contact-linguistics, translation, multilingualism, language education and language policies in Europe. He has also published widely in the fields of bilingualism and bilingual education. He is Professor of Italian at Royal Holloway, University of London and is Visiting Professor of Sociolinguistics in Italy at the Universita’ degli Studi di Siena.

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