Kristina Gustafsson
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kristina Gustafsson plays a role.
Articles
2021 Chapter 6. Child language brokering in Swedish welfare institutions: A matter of structural complicity? Translating Asymmetry – Rewriting Power, Carbonell i Cortés, Ovidi and Esther Monzó-Nebot (eds.), pp. 125–144 | Chapter
This chapter investigates the asymmetries associated to child language brokering in Swedish welfare institutions. Group interviews with (a) people who have experiences of language brokering as children and (b) public service professionals who have used children as brokers in encounters with… read more
2013 The interpreter – a cultural broker? Interpreting in a Changing Landscape: Selected papers from Critical Link 6, Schäffner, Christina, Krzysztof Kredens and Yvonne Fowler (eds.), pp. 187–202 | Article
A community interpreter works behind closed doors and becomes witness to how the exercise of authority and communication is carried out in multicultural Sweden. With time, interpreters collect experiences about interpreted meetings, power relations and unequal situations. The purpose of this paper… read more
2012 Working conditions of community interpreters in Sweden: Opportunities and shortcomings Interpreting 14:2, pp. 242–260 | Article
The aim of this article is to describe and analyse the working conditions of interpreters and interpreting services in Sweden. An understanding of interpreters’ working conditions is a key to such factors as the management of resources, the reading and implementation of legislation, the… read more