Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings
Edited by Bernd Meyer and Birgit Apfelbaum
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 9] 2010. viii, 274 pp.
Birgit Apfelbaum
List of John Benjamins publications for which Birgit Apfelbaum plays a role.
Title
Subjects Discourse studies | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2010 The multilingual organization of remembrance in Nazi camp memorials Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings, Meyer, Bernd and Birgit Apfelbaum (eds.), pp. 47–80 | Article
This case study examines the multilingual organization of remembrance in a German Nazi camp memorial. Using tools from ethnographic Conversation Analysis, the author analyzes video-taped core activities from an annual gathering at the memorial site with regard to typical structural configurations… read more
2010 Multilingualism at work: A brief introduction Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings, Meyer, Bernd and Birgit Apfelbaum (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2007 Conversational dynamics as an instructional resource in interpreter-mediated technical settings The Critical Link 4: Professionalisation of interpreting in the community, Wadensjö, Cecilia, Birgitta Englund Dimitrova and Anna-Lena Nilsson (eds.), pp. 53–63 | Article
Knowledge about interactional patterns community interpreters are involved in is increasingly recognized as being of crucial importance for the successful management of dialogically organized settings. It has been argued that interpreters as well as primary parties systematically and necessarily… read more
2003 Analysing Interpreted Doctor–Patient Communication from the Perspectives of Linguistics, Interpreting Studies and Health Sciences The Critical Link 3: Interpreters in the Community, Brunette, Louise, Georges L. Bastin, Isabelle Hemlin and Heather Clarke (eds.), pp. 67–79 | Article
2002 Constructing identities in language learning MOOs: A conversational perspective Us and Others: Social identities across languages, discourses and cultures, Duszak, Anna † (ed.), pp. 111–130 | Article