Changing Footings on 'Jacob's ladder': dealing with sensitive issues in dual-role mediation on a Swedish TV show.
This case study examines a Swedish TV interview with a Soviet pop singer in 1985 where the talk show host, who is both a trained interpreter and an experienced media journalist, acts as a dual-role mediator, interviewing and interpreting at the same time. The analysis is contextualized within the po...
| Published in: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 718 - 732 |
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