TY - BOOK AU - Ball,Sylvia AU - Buchin,Nichole AU - Cook,Christopher AU - Correia,Renato AU - Corte,Freddie De AU - Rollason,Christopher AU - Seymour,Edward AU - Swallow,Helen AU - Tomasi,Luca AU - Tosi,Arturo AU - Trim,John AU - Tucker,Anne AU - Wilson,Barry TI - Crossing Barriers & Bridging Cultures SN - 9781853596049 AV - P306.8.E85C76 2001 U1 - 418.02094 PY - 2002///] CY - Bristol, Blue Ridge Summit : PB - Multilingual Matters, KW - Languages in contact KW - Europe KW - Multilingualism KW - Political aspects KW - Translating and interpreting KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; The Contributors --; Introduction --; Part 1: Overviews of Languages and Cultures in Contact --; Chapter 1. The Translation Service in the European Parliament --; Chapter 2. Multilingualism and the Interpretation of Languages in Contact --; Chapter 3. The Use of Anglicisms in Contemporary French --; Chapter 4. Translation of EU Legal Texts --; Chapter 5. European Affairs: The Writer, the Translator and the Reader --; Part 2: The Making of a Single European Voice --; Chapter 6. The Contribution of Freelance Translators --; Chapter 7. Translation and Computerisation at the EU Parliament --; Chapter 8. Translating Transparency in the EU Commission --; Chapter 9. Helping the Journalist to Translate for the Reader --; Part 3: The Debate Between Insiders and Outsiders --; Chapter 10. Linguistic Interpenetration or Cultural Contamination? --; Chapter 11. Equivalences or Divergences in Legal Translation? --; Chapter 12. Opaque or User-friendly Language? --; Chapter 13. Round Table on Multilingualism: Barrier or Bridge? --; Chapter 14. Conclusions --; Appendix: The European Community’s Language Charter --; Index of Names; restricted access N2 - This text presents translators from different linguistic backgrounds discussing multilingual translation in the European Union. All articles 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853596704 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781853596704 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781853596704/original ER -