Department Member, School of Languages
School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences
Thesis Title: The significance of discourse markers in interpreter-mediated police interviews
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Professor Myriam Salama-Carr
Professor Diane Blakemore |
About
My research focuses on the overall effect of police interpreters' treatment of discourse markers on police interviews and, in particular, the participants’ ability to recover relevant implicit content from the interpretation of such markers.
My study aims at a dialectic synthesis of two theoretical frameworks: Sperber & Wilson’s (1986/1995) relevance-theoretic model of human communication and Goffman’s (1973, 1981) dialogic theory of language and the nature of social organisation.
I analyse video-recordings of interpreter-mediated interviews provided by Greater Manchester Police (GMP), involving four interpreters and two language combinations (Italian-English and Portuguese-English).
Contact Information
| Address: | University of Salford |
