Silencing Language

Of Anthropologists and Interpreters

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2402196
AutoresAxel Borchgrevink (0000-0003-1767-1540, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen4
Número1
Páginas95-121
Fecha de publicación2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1466-1381 • E-ISSN: 1741-2714
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1466138103004001005
OpenAlexW2040239368
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas44
Referencias citadas54

While the use of interpreters in fieldwork is far from marginal in anthropological practice, it has received curiously little attention in anthropological texts. On the basis of a review of what little has been written, and in consideration of some of the particularities of working with interpreters, the article argues that overlooking this theme has had two unfortunate consequences: concrete steps that can reduce the problems associated with interpreter use have not been discussed; and fundamental issues related to language competence have remained largely unexamined. The article argues that the silence regarding interpreter use is linked to the anthropologist's need for establishing authority and to the position that fieldwork has within the discipline

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Interpreter · Linguistics · Silence · Sociology · Theme (computing · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Computer Science · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Philosophy · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies