Filtered meaning: appreciating linguistic skill, social position and subjectivity of interpreters in cross-language research

Qualitative Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 167-182

  MacKenzie, Catrina A ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

interpreter; linguistic skill; situated knowledge; social position; subjectivity; translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960963007     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794115569564     Document Type: Article

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