Sociolinguistic profiles of users and providers of lay and professional interpreting services: the experiences of a recently-arrived Iraqi language community in Melbourne

This paper focuses on a group of 66 recently-arrived Chaldeans and Assyrians from Iraq and the incidence of group members being users and/or providers of interpreting services in Melbourne. The distinction between ‘user’ and ‘provider’ is of interest: some informants belong to one group only; others...

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Main Author: Jim Hlavac
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Western Sydney University 2012-02-01
Series:Translation and Interpreting : the International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research
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Online Access:http://www.trans-int.org/index.php/transint/article/view/149/91