Marianne Mason

List of John Benjamins publications for which Marianne Mason plays a role.

Journal

Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS)

Edited by Brian James Baer and Christopher D. Mellinger

ISSN 1932-2798 | E-ISSN 1876-2700

Articles

Mason, Marianne 2015 The role of interpreters in adjudicating blame: An examination of clitics and active-passive voice in a Spanish-English bilingual criminal trial Translation and Interpreting Studies 10:2, pp. 187–202 | Article

This paper provides a linguistic analysis of the interpreter’s role in shaping the discursive reality of the Spanish-English bilingual courtroom. The paper examines the interpreter’s rendition of morphosyntactic features, specifically clitic pronouns and active-passive voice using excerpts from an… read more

Mason, Marianne 2011 Examining the rhetorical structure and discursive features of letters of leniency as a genre Pragmatics 21:1, pp. 111–125 | Article

This paper presents a genre analysis of 73 letters of leniency, which were obtained in two United States federal district courthouses. The primary objective of this type of genre is to persuade a judge to be lenient during the sentencing of a defendant, such as by reducing or commuting the… read more

Mason, Marianne 2008 Psychics and the ‘other side’: A discourse analysis of televised psychic readings Pragmatics 18:3, pp. 453–468 | Article

This article provides a discourse analysis of a large corpus of televised psychic readings. The goal of this study is to uncover the relationship between the linguistic structure of psychic readings and the psychics’ linguistic agenda. The findings of this study suggest that the psychics’ engage… read more