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Turn taking and interpreting

Turn taking in discourse governs who has the right to talk, when you are allowed to talk and who decides whose turn it is. A turn in a discourse is the period when one speaker has the exclusive right...

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The interpreter’s role in the participation framework

Erving Goffman was an antropologist and sociologist who studied social interaction. Among other things, he proposed a model to analyse the distribution of responsibility between interlocutors. Cecilia...

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Four languages if you want to call 112 in Belgium, what about interpreters?

I read in http://www.lesoir.be/ today (in the paper copy, cannot find it on the Internet) that the “Commission permanente de contrôle linguistique” has given thumbs up for letting people use English...

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Very nice video on using an interpreter

Thanks to Bootheando

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Interpreters: How about getting together and really talk?

Lionel at the Japan interpreter has written at least two a very good posts on the curse of not actually meeting people, but just “liking” or “adding” or “RT:ing” or whatever it is we are doing. You can...

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Distance teaching from a (not too) distant teacher

Last #IntJC was dedicated to distance teaching. Now it may sound as if I’m only blogging about #IntJC topics, but hey, if the topic is good… When I took up my PhD post it involved teaching an...

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Interpreter mediated illusory communication

This is a post that I have translated from Anne-Birgitta’s tolkeblogg and publish with her permission. My apologies in advance to Anne-Birgitta and other Norwegian speakers if I have misunderstood or...

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In Translation – Saskia Holmkvist

Communication (Photo credit: P Shanks) Last week I took my students to see a video installation by Saskia Holmkvist, a Swedish artist who has done a series of works on role distribution and power (no...

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Babel precarity – more questions

Electronic red megaphone on stand. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Hi Babel guys! You said in the e-mails you sent after my last post that we should talk so that I don’t continue to mis-inform my fellow...

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Let me introduce myself – the interpreter’s introduction

Vector handshake (Photo credit: Wikipedia)   When you arrive at a meeting where you will interpret, you will have to introduce yourself. Well, maybe not if you’re part of the staff at an international...

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