Laura Rademaker
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laura Rademaker plays a role.
Articles
2023 Chapter 8. Interpreters of mission: How indigenous peoples shaped mission projects across Australia and the Pacific Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting: Voices from around the world, Ruiz Rosendo, Lucía and Jesús Baigorri-Jalón (eds.), pp. 193–211 | Chapter
Focusing on the histories of interpretation in mission contexts across Australia and the Pacific, this chapter reveals that wherever they operated, missionaries depended on the cooperation of local intermediaries. Interpreters were vital. While this has long been noted in Pacific histories,… read more
2015 Mission, Politics and Linguistic Research: The case of the Anindilyakwa language of North Australia Missionary Linguistics world-wide: Theory, practice and politics, pp. 379–400 | Article
This article investigates the ways local mission and national politics shaped linguistic research work in mid-20th century Australia through examining the case of the Church Missionary Society’s Angurugu Mission on Groote Eylandt in the Northern Territory and research into the Anindilyakwa… read more