The Identity of the Professional Interpreter: How Professional Identities are Constructed in the Classroom - Softcover

Runcieman, Alan James

 
9789811356773: The Identity of the Professional Interpreter: How Professional Identities are Constructed in the Classroom
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9811356777 ISBN 13: 9789811356773
Verlag: Springer, 2019

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This monograph examines how higher education(HE) institutions construct ‘professional identities’ in the classroom, specifically how dominant discourses in institutions frame the social role, requisite skills and character required to practice a profession, and how students navigate these along their academic trajectories. This book is based on a longitudinal case study of a prestigious HE institution specialising in training professional interpreters.  

Adopting an innovative research approach, it investigates a community of aspiring professionals in a HE context by drawing on small story narrative analysis from an ethnographic perspective to provide emic insights into the student community and the development of their social identities. The findings (contextualised by examining the curricula of similar institutions worldwide) suggest that interpreter institutions might not be providing students with a clear and comprehensive picture of the interpreterprofession, and not responding to its increasingly complex role in today’s society.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Alan James Runcieman is currently an adjunct professor at the Department for Interpreters and Translators,University of Bologna, Italy. His principle research interests lie in the fields of narrative research, ethnography, interpreter training, intercultural communication, phonetics and phonology and World Englishes.

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This monograph examines how higher education(HE) institutions construct ‘professional identities’ in the classroom, specifically how dominant discourses in institutions frame the social role, requisite skills and character required to practice a profession, and how students navigate these along their academic trajectories. This book is based on a longitudinal case study of a prestigious HE institution specialising in training professional interpreters.

Adopting an innovative research approach, it investigates a community of aspiring professionals in a HE context by drawing on small story narrative analysis from an ethnographic perspective to provide emic insights into the student community and the development of their social identities. The findings (contextualised by examining the curricula of similar institutions worldwide) suggest that interpreter institutions might not be providing students with a clear and comprehensive picture of the interpreterprofession, and not responding to its increasingly complex role in today’s society.

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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9811356777
ISBN 13 
9789811356773
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
200
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