Meeting the language challenges of NATO Operations : policy, practice and professionalization /

Meeting the language challenges of NATO Operations : policy, practice and professionalization / Ian P. Jones, SHAPE (NATO), Belgium ; Louise Askew, Independent Scholar and Interpreter, UK.

"After 40 years of Cold War, during which it never carried out a 'live' operation, NATO suddenly found itself intervening in three conflicts - in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Afghanistan - where the ability to communicate with local officials and populations was essential to the suc...

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Main Authors: Jones, Ian P., 1948- (Author), Askew, Louise, 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Palgrave studies in languages at war.
Subjects:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Language policy > Political aspects.
Translating and interpreting > Political aspects.
Language and languages > Political aspects.
Languages in contact > Political aspects.
Sociolinguistics.
Social history.
Translations.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Translation and Interpretation as the Focus of Language Policy
  • 1. NATO Linguistic Services 1949-1994
  • 2. English as the Working Language
  • 3. Bosnia-Herzegovina : Identifying the Problems
  • 4. Bosnia-Herzegovina : Implementing Solutions
  • 5. Kosovo : Following a Pattern
  • 6. Kosovo : Implementing Solutions
  • 7. Afghanistan 2003
  • 8. Afghanistan 2006
  • 9. Afghanistan from 2008
  • 10. NATO Doctrine
  • 11. Conclusions.

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