Raffaela Merlini
List of John Benjamins publications for which Raffaela Merlini plays a role.
Articles
2017. Chapter 7. Developing flexibility to meet the challenges of interpreting in film festivals. Teaching Dialogue Interpreting: Research-based proposals for higher education, Cirillo, Letizia and Natacha Niemants (eds.), pp. 137–157
The focus of this chapter is on an under-investigated setting of professional interpreting practice, namely Film Festival Interpreting, which is subsumed here under the wider field of “broadcast interpreting” on three counts: the multiplicity of communication levels; the interpreters’ professional… read more | Chapter
2015. Review of Nicodemus & Metzger (2014): Investigations in healthcare interpreting. Interpreting 17:2, pp. 290–296
Review
2013. Changing perspectives: Politeness in cooperative multi-party interpreted talk. Interpreting in a Changing Landscape: Selected papers from Critical Link 6, Schäffner, Christina, Krzysztof Kredens and Yvonne Fowler (eds.), pp. 267–283
The paper explores politeness dynamics through a qualitative analysis of three interpreted encounters in the fields of health care, primary education, and the social services. The overall framework involves a three-fold shift in perspective: contextually, cooperative conversations replace… read more | Article
2009. Seeking asylum and seeking identity in a mediated encounter: The projection of selves through discursive practices. Interpreting 11:1, pp. 57–93
The paper explores the professional practice of “cultural mediation” in the Italian context. This activity is taken here as a vantage point from which the dynamics of identity projections can be observed, as they emerge from a real-life interaction. The analysis is carried out on a recorded and… read more | Article
2009. 12. Quality in healthcare interpreter training: Working with norms through recorded interaction. The Critical Link 5: Quality in interpreting – a shared responsibility, Hale, Sandra, Uldis Ozolins and Ludmila Stern (eds.), pp. 187–200
This paper presents an interpreter training program recently implemented at an Italo-American healthcare facility and illustrates how the notion of “norm”, as developed within Descriptive Translation Studies, successfully shifted the trainees’ attention away from externally imposed instructions… read more | Article
2007. Review of Bot (2005): Dialogue interpreting in mental health. Interpreting 9:1, pp. 124–130
Review
2007. Examining the “voice of interpreting” in speech pathology. Healthcare Interpreting: Discourse and Interaction, Pöchhacker, Franz and Miriam Shlesinger † (eds.), pp. 101–137
This paper investigates professional interpreting practice in the setting of speech pathology through a multifaceted analysis of the transcripts of three recorded sessions involving first-generation Italian-speaking immigrants to Australia and English-speaking healthcare professionals working in… read more | Article
2005. Examining the “voice of interpreting” in speech pathology. Healthcare Interpreting: Discourse and Interaction, Pöchhacker, Franz and Miriam Shlesinger † (eds.), pp. 263–302
This paper investigates professional interpreting practice in the setting of speech pathology through a multifaceted analysis of the transcripts of three recorded sessions involving first-generation Italian-speaking immigrants to Australia and English-speaking healthcare professionals working in… read more | Article
2002. Computer-assisted interpreter training. Interpreting in the 21st Century: Challenges and opportunities, Garzone, Giuliana and Maurizio Viezzi (eds.), pp. 277–294
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