Public service and community interpreting in plurilingual Africa
Venue
Universität Fribourg
Linguistic diversity in societies involves a wide range of translating and interpreting practices among speakers for mutual understanding. In many cases, daily social interactions, rather than formal training, provide the context and basis to act as interpreter or translator.
This workshop serves as a platform to bring together interested scholars from Africa and Europe looking at various aspects of interpretation in African societies. We encourage contributions from researchers in African Studies, anthropology, language and literature studies, (socio)linguistics, translation and interpretation studies, but also members of NGOs and applied scientists who are interested in exploring public service and community interpretation in Africa.