RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 PĂ©rez, Marcos Sarmiento YR 2011 T1 The role of interpreters in the conquest and acculturation of the Canary Archipelago JF Interpreting VO 13 IS 2 SP 155 OP 175 DO https://doi.org/10.1075/intp.13.2.01sar PB John Benjamins SN 1384-6647, AB From the mid-fourteenth century to the end of the fifteenth, the kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula used the Canary Archipelago as a testing ground for their later conquests and colonization in the Americas. Numerous interpreters, among them many women, enabled communication between Europeans, indigenous islanders, and groups on the North African coast. The paper describes the linguistic context of their work and how it related to the successive stages of conquest and acculturation. Attempts are made to identify the interpreters, to explain how they learned their languages, to analyze the situations in which they participated and to assess the philosophical precepts that may initially have guided their training. These factors are used to group the interpreters into various categories., UL https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/intp.13.2.01sar