Raffaela Merlini
List of John Benjamins publications for which Raffaela Merlini plays a role.
2024 Review of de Boe, Vranjes & Salaets (2024): Interactional dynamics in remote interpreting: Micro-analytical approaches Technology, Pöchhacker, Franz and Minhua Liu (eds.), pp. 323–330 | Review
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 | Chapter
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
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 | Article
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
2009 Seeking asylum and seeking identity in a mediated encounter: The projection of selves through discursive practices Interpreting 11:1, pp. 57–93 | Article
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
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 | Article
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
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 | Article
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
2005 Examining the “voice of interpreting” in speech pathology Healthcare Interpreting: Discourse and Interaction, Pöchhacker, Franz and Miriam Shlesinger † (eds.), pp. 263–302 | Article
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
2002 Computer-assisted interpreter training Interpreting in the 21st Century: Challenges and opportunities, Garzone, Giuliana and Maurizio Viezzi (eds.), pp. 277–294 | Article