LEARNING TO SMOKE
The social and psychological ingredients which make a smoker a Smoker are an aspect of tobacco addiction which nicotine patches don’t reach.
Laurie Taylor hears tales of mothers packing their children’s satchels with a pipe as well as an apple, of the pamphlets written against tobacco-drinkers and of the subsequent emergence of a strict smoking etiquette and explores with Jason Hughes, Lecturer in the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester and author of Learning to Smoke, the history of the weed and its continuing role in the creation of individual identity.
INTERPRETERS: BIRTH OF A PROFESSION
This year sees the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Association of International Conference Interpreters – AIIC, an elite professional body which has largely defined its own role as diplomacy’s critical link. But there’s another group of interpreters, those who work in our courts and our social services, whose role is rather more ambiguous than that of their more glamorous international counterparts.
Laurie Taylor is joined by Jack Lonergan, Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Westminster and Ian Mason, Dean of Heriot Watt University and Professor of Interpreting and Translating to examines the life and times of the interpreter.
Additional information:
Learning to Smoke: Tobacco Use in the West
by Jason Hughes
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN 0 226 35910 7
Jason Hughes
Centre for Labour Market Studies
University of Leicester
7-9 Salisbury Road
Leicester
LE1 7QR
Tel: 01162522522
Jack Lonergan
University of Westminster
Headquarters
309 Regent Street
London
W1B 2UW
Tel: 020 7911 5000
Ian Mason
Heriot Watt University
Department of Languages
School of Management & Languages
Edinburgh
EH14 4AS
Tel: 0131 449 5111
‘Investigating Dialogue Interpreting’, Research Methods in Translation Studies
UCL/UMIST joint conference
Manchester, April 2000.
Association of International Conference Interpreters – AIIC
10 avenue de Sécheron
CH - 1202
Geneva
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 908 15 40
Weblinks:
Criminal Court Review Report on legal interpreting,
response by The Council for the Advancement of Communication
Institute of Translation and Interpreting - ITI
Fortuna House
South Fifth Street
Milton Keynes
MK9 2EU
Tel: 01908 325250
List of translation and interpreting courses available in UK
The Role of Ethics in a Deregulated 21st Century
by Jean-Pierre Allain
Sites for interpreters
Institute of Linguistics
Saxon House
48 Southwark Street
London
SE1 1UN
Tel: 020 7940 3100
National Register of Public Service Interpreters
Diploma in Public Service Interpreting
Criminal Court Review Report on legal interpreting,
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