Multiple Voices in the Translation Classroom

“This book is a truly unique ethography providing an unusually detailed and emperically grounded insight into the organization of knowledge and its social distribution in a Caribbean community. Applying a conversation analytical approach, Sidnell strikingly demonstrates how everyday social practices and the social structure of a community are accomplished on a turn-by-turn basis. [...] This study accomplishes two important things. In relation to everyday social practices, it reveals how they are interactionally achieved, contribute to the community's social structure, and how members of the community make sense of them in unfolding talk. Methodologically, it strikingly demonstrates how close interactional analysis of the sort practiced by conversation analysts is vital for overcoming received and often biased notions about the social life of non-western communities. Sidnell's study sets new standards for doing ethnography, and rehabilitates the importance of close attention to social interaction and language in this enterprise.”

“[...] this book contains many activities that will be an invaluable source of ideas for the translation and language teacher.”

“Multiple Voices in the Translation Classroom provides successful alternatives to traditional transmissionist teaching models, and is highly recommendable as a valuable guide book, a resourceful databank an a helpful companion to teachers who seek to be inspired, to change their ways of doing things or to be informed and assisted when experimenting with process-based translation teaching.”