The identity of the professional interpreter : how students construct the identity of the professional interpreter in an Italian higher education institution
Although professional interpreters are increasingly important in todayâs world, helping minority language speakers in other nations in their pursuit of basic human rights, there has not as yet been any substantial empirical research into the institutions that train them. This research therefore aimed to fill this gap by carrying out narrative research, from an ethnographic perspective, to provide emic insights into how students construct the professional interpreterâs identity over the period of their first year in the institution. The research drew on small story narrative research, which analyses small, often fragmentary, co-constructed narratives as they emerge in situated talk. The analytical frame adopted was narrative positioning analysis, which analyses narratives on three levels: the level of the actual narrative told, the level of the tellers in the moment of the telling, and the level of wider Discourses that shape the first two levels. Narrative positioning is concerned with how narrators position themselves and others, as well as the characters in the narratives they tell, towards the social world. This positioning is then analysed to draw conclusions about the Discourses that shape their perceptions
Runcieman, Alan James
The identity of the professional interpreter : how students construct the identity of the professional interpreter in an Italian higher education institution. Although professional interpreters are increasingly important in todayâs world, helping minority language speakers in other nations in their pursuit of basic human rights, there has not as yet been any substantial empirical research into the institutions that train them. This research therefore aimed to fill this gap by carrying out narrative research, from an ethnographic perspective, to provide emic insights into how students construct the professional interpreterâs identity over the period of their first year in the institution. The research drew on small story narrative research, which analyses small, often fragmentary, co-constructed narratives as they emerge in situated talk. The analytical frame adopted was narrative positioning analysis, which analyses narratives on three levels: the level of the actual narrative told, the level of the tellers in the moment of the telling, and the level of wider Discourses that shape the first two levels. Narrative positioning is concerned with how narrators position themselves and others, as well as the characters in the narratives they tell, towards the social world. This positioning is then analysed to draw conclusions about the Discourses that shape their perceptions
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