Bente Jacobsen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bente Jacobsen plays a role.
2012 The significance of interpreting modes for question–answer dialogues in court interpreting Interpreting 14:2, pp. 217–241 | Article
Studies of court interpreting have so far neglected interpreters’ choice of mode for interpreting question–answer dialogues, though their choice of mode may impact the way questions and answers are reproduced and received by end receivers. Typically, the (short) consecutive mode, regarded as the… read more
2010 Interactional pragmatics and court interpreting: An analysis of face Doing Justice to Court Interpreting, Shlesinger, Miriam † and Franz Pöchhacker (eds.), pp. 193–239 | Article
2008 Interactional pragmatics and court interpreting: An analysis of face Doing Justice to Court Interpreting, Shlesinger, Miriam † and Franz Pöchhacker (eds.), pp. 128–158 | Article
This article reports on an investigation of face in a triadic speech event, a prosecutor’s interpreter-mediated questioning of a defendant in a criminal trial at a Danish district court. The power differential of this particular speech event makes it inherently threatening for the less powerful… read more
2003 Pragmatics in Court Interpreting: Additions The Critical Link 3: Interpreters in the Community, Brunette, Louise, Georges L. Bastin, Isabelle Hemlin and Heather Clarke (eds.), pp. 223–238 | Article