1887
Profession, Identity and Status: Translators and Interpreters as an Occupational Group: Part II: Questions of role and identity
  • ISSN 1932-2798
  • E-ISSN: 1876-2700
USD
Buy:$35.00 + Taxes

Abstract

“Boundary work” is a concept that was introduced by Thomas Gieryn in the early 1980s in order to study the construction of differences between “us” and “them.” Although it was used in the first instance to study the rhetorical construction of differences between science and non-science, boundary theories have been further developed since then and are now used in various disciplines to focus on a range of topics, including the construction of boundaries between profession and non-profession. In this article I will present the concept of boundary work and outline a research project I have launched to examine the construction of sign language interpreters as an occupational group in Austria.

Loading

Article metrics loading...

/content/journals/10.1075/tis.5.1.07grb
2010-01-01
2025-02-15
Loading full text...

Full text loading...

/content/journals/10.1075/tis.5.1.07grb
Loading
This is a required field
Please enter a valid email address
Approval was successful
Invalid data
An Error Occurred
Approval was partially successful, following selected items could not be processed due to error