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Discrimination-based verbal aggression in interpreter-mediated public service provision in Flanders

Via ethnographic and discourse analytic methods we investigate how public service interpreters in Flanders handle discrimination-based verbal aggressions discursively and internationally. We also investigate how interpreters' handling of discrimination-based aggressions interacts with their (professional) identity and stances towards their own agency.

Date:1 Jan 2019 →  Today
Keywords:public service interpreting, verbal aggression, discrimination
Disciplines:Translation and interpretation sciences, Social perception and cognition, Social behaviour and social action, Discourse studies, Oral literature