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Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0466-9302
AccessType
Open Access Dissertation
Document Type
dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Comparative Literature
Year Degree Awarded
2020
Month Degree Awarded
September
First Advisor
Moira Inghilleri
Second Advisor
James Hicks
Third Advisor
Chan Young Park
Fourth Advisor
Michael Pettid
Subject Categories
Korean Studies | Translation Studies
Abstract
This dissertation presents an overview of interpreting during the Korean War by examining shifts in the positionality of interpreters during the preparatory, engagement, and conclusionary stages of the conflict. Here, the preparatory stage refers to the U.S. military occupation of south Korea (1945-1948), the engagement stage refers to period of active military engagement between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and its allies against the Republic of Korea and the United Nations Command (1950-1953), while the conclusionary stage refers to the Korean Armistice Negotiations (1951-1953). Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory and Moira Inghilleri’s (2005a) influential argument that interpreting takes place in a “zone of uncertainty,” this dissertation explores how new interpreting habitus emerged as the communicational purposes and power dynamics within the military field were oriented, disoriented, and reoriented with the progression of the conflict. The variation in who was allowed to act as an interpreter, the tasks interpreters were assigned, and the norms that dictated how interpreters should act and react during interpreted events indicates a need to reconsider traditional notions of interpreting.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/19020693
Recommended Citation
Kim, Hyongrae, "A PARROT PERCHED ON A RIFLE: MILITARY INTERPRETERS IN THE KOREAN CONFLICT 1945-1953" (2020). Doctoral Dissertations. 2037.
https://doi.org/10.7275/19020693
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/2037
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