Translation and Interpreting Studies - Faculty Members: Miriam N. Shlesinger, Senior Teacher

Israel Science Foundation (ISF) - BIKURA Individual Research Grant for (2006-2009) – Linguistic and Translational Universals: Theory and Statistical Applications

Israel Science Foundation (ISF) –Research Grant 619/06 (2006-2009) – Strategies of Image-Making and Status Advancement of a Marginal Occupational Group: Translators and Interpreters in Israel as a Case in Point

Publications List

Books (edited)

2009. Dimitriu, Rodica and Miriam Shlesinger (eds.) Translators and Their Readers – in homage to Eugene A. Nida. 363 pp. Brussels: Les Éditions du Hasard.

2008. Pym, Anthony, Miriam Shlesinger and Daniel Simeoni (eds.) Descriptive translation studies and beyond: investigations in homage to Gideon Toury , 417 pp. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins.

2007. Gambier, Yves , Miriam Shlesinger and Radigundis Stolze (eds.) Doubts and Directions in Translation Studies , 356 pp. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins.

2007. Pöchhacker, Franz and Miriam Shlesinger (eds.) Healthcare Interpreting:

Discourse and Interaction. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins.

Pöchhacker, F. & Shlesinger, M. (eds) 2007. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John

Benjamins.

2006. Pym, Anthony , Miriam Shlesinger and Zuzana Jettmarova (eds.) Sociocultural Aspects of Translating and Interpreting , 255 pp. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins.

2002. Pöchhacker, Franz and Miriam Shlesinger, eds. The Interpreting Studies Reader. London: Routledge.

Chapters in books

(Accepted) Shlesinger, Miriam, Moshe Koppel, Noam Ordan and Brenda Malkiel. Markers of translator gender: do they really matter? In Mees, Inger M., Alves, Fabio & Göpferich, Susanne (eds). Methodology, Technology and Innovation in Translation Process Research (Copenhagen Studies in Language 38), Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur.

(2009) "The Israeli Academic as Reluctant 'Representative': the Academic Boycott Dispute." Ethics Yearbook. Jerusalem: Magnes Press. (Asa Kasher, ed.). [In Hebrew]

(2008) "Healthcare interpreting - legal requirement, necessary evil, best practice?" In: Epstein, Leon (eds.) Culturally Appropriate Health Care By Culturally Competent Health Professionals. Tel Aviv: National Institute For Health Policy. 71-84.

(2008) Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet and Shlesinger, Miriam. "Strategies of Image-Making and Status Advancement of Translators and Interpreters as a Marginal Occupational Group." In: Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies. Investigations in homage to Gideon Toury. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 79-90.

(2008) "Towards a definition of Interpretese: an intermodal, corpus-based study". In: G. Hansen, A. Chesterman, H. Gerzymisch-Arbogast (eds.) Models in Interpreting & Translation Research. Amsterdam/Philadelphia , John Benjamins. 237-253.

(2008) Weissbrod, Rachel, Shlesinger, Miriam. "For better and for worse: the transformation of a diploma program into MA studies" In: Garant, Michael (eds.) Current Trends in Translation Teaching And Learning. Helsinki: University of Helsinki. 13-37.

(2007) Schuster, Michal and Shlesinger, Miriam. "Access of Essential Services to Language Minorities". In: Dina Feldman, Yael Danieli Lahav and Shmuel Haimovitz (eds.) The Accessibility of Israeli Society to Persons With Disability on the Threshold of the 21st Century. Jerusalem: Government Publication Service. [In Hebrew]. 639-663.

(2006) Miriam Shlesinger, Elda Weizman and Francine Kaufmann. "From Vocational Training to an Academic Discipline: history of the department of translation". In: Dov Schwartz (ed.) Mi-ra'ayon le-Ma'as [From Idea to Deed]. Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press. [In Hebrew]. 449-462.

(2004) "Doorstep inter-subdisciplinarity and beyond". In Christina Schäffner (ed.) Translation Research and Interpreting Research: Traditions, gaps and synergies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 116 – 123.

(2003). "Split Attention in the Processing of Texts from English into Hebrew". Rina Ben Shahar and Gideon Toury, eds. Ivrit Safa Haya. 311-328.

(2000). "Interpreting As A Cognitive Process: How Can We Know What Really Happens?" In Tirkkonen-Condit, S. and R. Jaaskelainen, eds. Tapping and Mapping the Processes of Translation and Interpreting. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 3-15.

(1999). "Norms, Strategies and Constraints: How Do We Tell Them Apart?" In Lugrís, A. A. and A. F. Ocampo, eds. Anovar /Anosar: Estudios de traducción e interpretación. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo. 65-77.

(1999) "The Rights of the Language-Disabled Defendant" In: Ben-Shachar, R. and Toury, G. (eds.) Hebrew as a Living Language: Studies in the Socio-Cultural Context of Language [in Hebrew] . Tel Aviv, Porter Institute, 1999. 317-331.

(1997) "Quality in Simultaneous Interpreting". Gambier, Yves, Daniel Gile and Christopher Taylor, eds. Conference Interpreting: Current Trends in Research. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 123-132.

(1994) "Intonation in Simultaneous Interpretation". Lambert, Sylvia and Barbara Moser, eds. Bridging the Gap: Empirical Research in Simultaneous Interpreting. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. 225-236.

(1992) "Lexicalization in Translation: an Empirical Study of Students' Progress". Cay Dollerup and Anne Loddegaard, eds. Teaching Translation and Interpreting: Training, Talent and Experience. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 123-127.

(1991) "Interpreter Latitude vs. Due Process: Simultaneous and Consecutive Interpretation in Multilingual Trials". Sonja Tirkkonen-Condit, ed. Empirical Research in Translation and Intercultural Studies. 147-155.

(1991) "On the Translation of Shira into English: Stylistic factors in rendering 'Agnonese'". Uzi Ornan, Rina Ben Shahar and Gideon Toury, eds. Ivrit Safa Xaya. Haifa: Haifa University. 301-308. [In Hebrew]

(1990) "The Next Step: Quality Control for Courtroom Interpreting". Jovanovic, Mladen, ed. 1990. Proceedings of the Twelfth World Congress of the International Federation of Translators. Prevodilac, Belgrade.

Reviews

1998 - Colins, Joan and Ruth Morris. Interpreters and the Legal Process. Winchester: Waterside Press. Meta 43 (1): 157-158.

1997 - Tommola, Jorma, ed. Topics in Interpreting Research. Turku: University of Turku. The Translator 3 (1): 81-85.

1997 - Gentile, Adolfo, Uldis Ozolins and Mary Vasilakakos. Liaison Interpreting: A Handbook. Melbourne University Press, 1996. Target 9 (2): 396-397.

1991 - Peter W. Krawutschke, ed. Translator and Interpreter Training and Foreign Language Pedagogy. Binghamton: State University of New York, 1989; Delisle, Jean. Translation: An Interpretive Approach. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1988; Tirkkonen-Condit, Sonja and Stephen Condit, eds. Empirical Studies in Translation and Linguistics. Joensuu: University of Joensuu, 1989 -- Target 3 (2): 249-253

Articles in refereed journals

(Submitted) Ordan, Noam, Nimrod Hershberg and Miriam Shlesinger. Translational conflicts between cognate languages: Arabic into Hebrew as case in point.

(Submitted) Roziner, Ilan and Miriam Shlesinger. Much ado about something remote: Stress and performance in remote interpreting. Interpreting: International journal of research and practice in interpreting.

(Accepted) Sela-Sheffy, Rakefet and Miriam Shlesinger. "Introduction" to Special Issue [issue 4:2 – Profession, Identity and Status: Translators and Interpreters as an Occupational Group] of Translation and Interpreting Studies.

(Accepted) Ordan, Noam, Victoria Bromberg, Miriam Shlesinger and Ido Kanter. "Lexical richness revisited: blueprint for a more economical measure".

(2009) "Crossing the divide: What researchers and practitioners can learn from one another." Translation & Interpreting1 (1): 1-16.

(2008) Shlesinger, Miriam and Franz Pöchhacker. "Doing justice to court interpreting. Interpreting. 10: 2.

(2007) Gorm Hansen, Inge and Miriam Shlesinger. "The silver lining: Technology and self-study in the interpreting classroom". Interpreting: International journal of research and practice in interpreting. 9: 95-118.

(2007) "Making the most of settling for less". Forum - journal of translation studies. 5:2.

(2006) "Kanter, Ido, Haggai Kfir, Brenda Malkiel and Miriam Shlesinger. "Identifying Universals of Text Translation" Journal of Quantitative Linguistics.

(2006) Shlesinger, Miriam and Brenda Malkiel. "Comparing modalities: cognates as a case in point" Across Languages And Cultures. 6:.

(2003) "Effects of Presentation Rate on Working Memory in Simultaneous Doorstep Interpreting". The Interpreters' Newsletter. 37 – 49.

(2003) "Effects of Presentation Rate On Working Memory in Simultaneous Doorstep Interpreting" The Interpreters' Newsletter 12: 37-49.

(2002) "Choosing a Research Topic in Interpreting Studies". Conference Interpretation and Translation. 1 (1): 25-36.

(2001). "Shared Ground in Interpreting Studies". Target: International Journal of Translation Studies 13 (1): 167-170.

(2000). "Evaluation Issues in Interpreting: a bibliography". The Translator 6 (2): 363-366.

(1998). "Corpus-based Interpreting Studies". Laviosa, Sara, ed. Meta 43(4): 486-493.

(1997). Massaro, Dominic and Miriam Shlesinger. "Information Processing and a Computational Approach to the Study of Simultaneous Interpretation". Interpreting: International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting. 2:(1/2): 13-53.

(1997). Gernsbacher, Morton Ann and Miriam Shlesinger. "Suppression in Simultaneous Interpreting". Interpreting: International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting. 2(1/2): 119-140.

(1995) "Shifts in Cohesion in Simultaneous Interpreting". The Translator 1(2): 193-214.

(1995) "Strangers in Paradigms: What Lies Ahead for Simultaneous Interpreting Research". Target: International Journal of Translation Studies 7(1): 7-28.

Articles in non-refereed journals

(1999). "Who's Afraid of Translation Theory?" Targima - Israel Translators' Association Journal. 2-9. [In Hebrew].

(1997). "Using Business English To Do Better Business". Status: The Executive's Monthly, 73: 73-74. [In Hebrew].

(1996) "What Are We Testing When We Test Translation Students?" English Teachers' Journal. 49: 38-40.

(1988). "Interpreting a Toothache - on terminological challenges of interpreting into Hebrew". Targima, - Israel Translators' Association Journal. 9-14. [In Hebrew].

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(2000) Strategic Allocation of Working Memory and Other Attentional Resources in Simultaneous Interpreting. PhD Dissertation. Bar-Ilan University. March 2000.

(1989) Simultaneous Interpretation as a Factor in Effecting Shifts in the Position of Texts on the Oral-Literate Continuum. M.A. Thesis. Tel-Aviv University.

Professional positions

1974 – 1977	In-house translator for Research and Design Committee, Beth Hatefutsoth, Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
1980	Founded Translation Program, Beit Berl College
1980 – 1993	Director, Translation Program, Beit Berl College
1989	Member of the jury, American Embassy Prize for Hebrew Translations of American Literature
Since 1989	Style Editor for Target: International Journal of Translator Studies.
1992	Member of the jury, Ada Ben Nahum Prize for Theater Translation
1993	Member of the jury, Ministry of Education Annual Translation Prize
Since 1994	Member of the Editorial Board. Dictionary of Foreignisms in Contemporary Hebrew. Prolog Publishing.
1995	Member of the jury, Translation Prize, Ministry of Science and the Arts
1995-1997	Member of the International Advisory Committee, The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication
Since 1998	Review Editor, Interpreting: International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting
1998	Editor, The Translator’s Diary 1998 (St. Jerome Publishing)
1998 – 1999	Consultant Editor, Bibliography of Translation Studies (St. Jerome Publishing)
1997 and 1999	Consultant editor for Hebrew translation, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, translated by Rina Litwin. Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing
1998 – 2002	Member of the Editorial Committee, The Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication
1998 – 2003	Academic Advisor, Translation Program (English, Arabic, Russian tracks), Beit Berl College
1999	Member of the jury, Yardena Harel Prize for Subtitle Translation
1999-2000	Member of Scientific Committee, International Conference on Research Models in Translation Studies
1999-2004	Member of the Advisory Committee. Benjamins Translation Library (John Benjamins Publishing. Editor in Chief: Gideon Toury)
Since 2003	Chair, Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies, Bar Ilan University
Since 2004	Associate Editor, Benjamins Translation Library (John Benjamins Publishing. Editor in Chief: Yves Gambier)
Since 2006	Co-editor, Interpreting: International Journal of Research and Practice in Interpreting
2006	Co-editor, Sociocultural Aspects of Translating and Interpreting. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2008	Co-editor, Translation Studies: Doubts and Directions. Selected contributions from the EST Congress, Lisbon 2004. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2009	Co-editor, Beyond Descriptive Translation Studies. Investigations in homage to Gideon Toury. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
2009	Guest co-editor, Translation and Interpreting Studies. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Special issues 4:2 and 5:1.

Other positions

1989-1994	Executive Board, Israel Section of Amnesty International
1991-1994	Chair, Executive Board, Israel Section of Amnesty International
1993-2000	Executive Board, Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace
1994-1998	Chair, Executive Board, Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace

Interpreting

Since 1983	Simultaneous and consecutive interpreting in Israel and abroad at hundreds of conferences, symposia, board meetings, congresses, international assemblies, political conventions, academic seminars, focus groups, press conferences, depositions etc.
1983, 1986, 1988, 1995	Interpretation and coordination of interpreting teams on international tours of Israeli theaters to the UK and the US
1983 – 1987	Interpretation and coordination of interpreting teams at performances of the Cameri and Habimah theaters, Tel Aviv
1986 – 1988, 1990	Simultaneous interpreting, State of Israel vs. John (Ivan) Demjanjuk
1988	Simultaneous interpreting, Conference of Jewish Writers, Berkeley
1989	Simultaneous interpreting, The Crown vs. Imre Finta (Toronto, Canada)
1990, 1991	Simultaneous interpreting, Peace conferences, Madrid & Moscow
1990, 1991	Simultaneous interpreting for Foreign Minister Levy on state visits to Egypt and the US
Since 1992	Professional organizer of multilingual interpreting teams for international events
1993	Consecutive interpreting, The Crown vs. Polyukovich (Adelaide, Australia)
Since 1994	Live simultaneous interpretation of interviews and news (for CNN)

Written translations

1980	Sadai, Y. Harmony in Its Systemic and Phenomenological Aspects. Jerusalem: Yanetz.
1983	Sobol, Y. Soul of a Jew. (a play)
1983	Ben-Asher, D. Fighting Fit: The Israel Defense Forces Guide to Physical Fitness and Self-Defense. New York: Perigee.
1985	Sobol, Y. Ghetto. (a play)
1985	Valero, R. Delights of Jerusalem. Tel Aviv: Steimatzky.
1986	Hasfari, S. Kiddush. (a play)
1986	Mittelpunct, H. Death and the Maiden. (a play)
1986	Sobol, Y. Shooting Magda. (a play)
1987	Habibi, E. The Opsimist. (a play)
1987	Sobol, Y. Countdown. (a play)
1987	Horowitz, D. Homecoming. (a play)
1988	Huberman, I. Symbols in Jewish Art. Tel Aviv: Steimatzky.
1988	Semel, N. The Child Behind the Eyes. (a play)
1988	Semel, N. “Hunger”, “A Hat of Glass” (short stories)
1989	Golan, M. Scoop. (a play)
1989	Lerner, M. Tale of Three and Four. (based on Bialik) (a play)
1990	Almagor, G. Avia’s Summer. (a play)
1990	Agnon, S. Y. Shira. (a play)
1990	Lerner, M. Elsa. (a filmscript)
1990	Hatzor, I. Blood Brothers. (a play)
1992	Sharir, D. The Magic Flute. (a play)
1992	Porat, R. Naomi (a play)
1992	Yehoshua, A. B. Babes in the Night. (a play)
1992	Levi, A. & Danon, R. Sheindele. (a play)
1993	Shabtai, Y. Spotted Leopard. (a play)
1993	Mittelpunct, H. Gorodish. (a play)
1993	Weingarten, I. Dancing with Father. (a play)
1994	Even-Or, Y. Fleisher. (a play)
1994	Ninio, R. A Little Drama. (a play)
1995	Korkin, H. Love in the Shadow of AIDS. (a play)
1995	Olmert, A. The Piano. (a play)
2000	Semel, N. “Lady of Fayum”, “School Trip” (short stories)
2001	Levin, H. Requiem (a play)
2001	Keret, E. The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God. St. Martin's.
2002	Semel, N. Smile of a Rat (a novel)
2004	Keret, E. The Nimrod Flipout. Picador. (2005 – Chatto & Windus)
2004	Kashua, S. Dancing Arabs.
2006	Keret, E. Gaza Blues. (Picador)
2006	Kashua, S. Then There Was Morning.
2007	Keret, E. Missing Kissinger (Chatto & Windus)

Contact Information

Translation and Interpreting Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Bar Ilan University 52900 Ramat-Gan, ISRAEL

e-mail: shlesm@mail.biu.ac.il

Phone: +972.3.5318227
Fax: +972.3.7384107