Status of interpreters

Cecilia Wadensjö
Stockholm University
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The concept of ‘status’ can refer to social ranking as well as to group membership. The term can also refer to alignment in social interaction, or participation status, to use Goffman’s (1981) terminology. In all three respects, the status of interpreters can be characterised as ambiguous and ambivalent.

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