Katrijn Maryns

List of John Benjamins publications for which Katrijn Maryns plays a role.

Articles

This case study examines how a court’s perception of the defendant’s socio-legal identity may be affected by interpreting. Since this perception relies largely on language, interpreters are expected to minimise their impact on the dynamics of direct communication between primary participants. The… read more
Maryns, Katrijn and Jan Blommaert † 2002 Pretextuality and pretextual gaps: On de/refining linguistic inequalityPragmatics 12:1, pp. 11–30 | Article
Drawing on the rich tradition of investigations into linguistic inequality, this paper seeks to define the phenomenon of pretextual gaps, i.e. socially anchored and often invisible differences between what is expected in communication and what people can bring and deploy in communication.… read more