Katrijn Maryns
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 139953 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Katrijn Maryns |
| NOMBRES | Katrijn |
| APELLIDO | Maryns |
| FIRMA | MARYNS K |
| AFILIACIONES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8919-3050 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 91 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Advancing training in video-mediated interpreting for asylum and refugee settings
Video-mediated interpreting (VMI) can enhance access to language support in asylum reception, but its success relies on context-sensitive guidelines and training. This paper introduces a VMI training framework developed through the European Project EU-WEBPSI, which consolidates research and professional standards into minimum requirements for asylum and refugee contexts. Addressing technical, interactional, and ethical dimensions, it clarifies sh…
Language assistance in the Criminal Court
European Union Directive 2010/64/EU introduces a defendant’s right to receive written translations of documents in criminal proceedings but at the same time it allows Member States to substitute written translations with oral translations or summaries. Through an instrumental case study, this article investigates the implementation and adequacy of substituting written translations with oral interpreting for defendants with limited Dutch proficien…
When Stories Tire
Given the critical role of national authorities in the asylum process, sociolinguistic research on inequalities in narrative assessment has prioritised the high-stakes hearings within the official process. It is, however, also crucial to analyse how non-state actors play a central role in asylum bureaucracies. Accordingly, this article focuses on “helping encounters” with social workers, guardians and lawyers on the “backstage side” of the asylum…
But that’s what I’m saying”
Asylum interviews have come to resemble credibility inquiries into applicants’ stories. Their narratives are scrutinised and held against bureaucratic standards of ‘truth’. To meet these standards, applicants for international protection require support in uncovering and reorienting their lived stories into factual accounts. Although this support is typically provided by legal professionals, unaccompanied refugee minors may receive additional gui…
Conflicting Expectations of Interpreters’ Roles in the Interaction between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors
Public service interpreters assume a key role in rendering accessible social services to newcomer clients. They could even be considered inherent to social work settings that are multilingual in nature, such as the interactional context of unaccompanied minors and their legal guardians. However, despite the intrinsic linguistic diversity and the unique position of interpreters in this setting, guardian–minor encounters remain unexplored in resear…
Discursive Tensions of Credibility and Performance in Assessing Lesbian Refugee Claims for International Protection
Mediated disclosure in asylum encounters
Discursive input functions as the core decisive element in answering the legal dilemma of whether someone is eligible for international protection. This pleads in favour of strengthening the narrative-discursive component in migration studies by offering a micro-sociolinguistic analysis of interactional data from diverse legal encounters with applicants for international protection. This article adopts a case study approach, bringing together two…
Exploring (Im)mobilities
The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.
Pretextuality and pretextual gaps
Drawing on the rich tradition of investigations into linguistic inequality, this paper seeks to define the phenomenon of pretextual gaps, i.e. socially anchored and often invisible differences between what is expected in communication and what people can bring and deploy in communication. Pretextual gaps refer to conditions on sayability, differential distribution of access to these conditions, and social evaluations attached to such differences.…
Agency and vulnerability in the field of immigration law
Migrants are often perceived as a group of vulnerable victims, especially within a legal context such as the one in this study: lawyer–client consultations in the field of immigration law. The literature describes how institutional limitations often translate into asymmetric lawyer–client dynamics. The linguistic‐ethnographic data gathered for this study shows, however, that the reality is more complex. In operationalizing the concept of agency, …
Managing narratives, managing identities
This study examines interactional management practices and narrative co-construction in lawyer-asylum seeker consultations in Flanders, Belgium. Drawing upon linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork, it presents a case study of a consultation between an Afghan applicant for international protection, his adviser, and his lawyer. The purpose of the consultation is to prepare the applicant for testifying at the upcoming asylum hearing. Data analysis focuse…
Data constitution and engagement with the field of asylum and migration
The Use of English as ad hoc Institutional Standard in the Belgian Asylum Interview
In institutional settings of globalization, labelled languages are generally preferred over multilingual repertoires and mobile language resources. Drawing on linguistic-ethnographic analysis of the way English is treated as an invariable ‘ad hoc’ idiom in the Belgian asylum interview, this article demonstrates how institutional measures and routines relating to multilingualism fail to address the communicative needs and practices of the particip…
Orality and authenticity in an interpreter-mediated defendant’s examination
This case study examines how a court’s perception of the defendant’s socio-legal identity may be affected by interpreting. Since this perception relies largely on language, interpreters are expected to minimise their impact on the dynamics of direct communication between primary participants. The analysis focuses on an interpreter-mediated defendant’s examination, recorded in an attempted murder case tried before the Belgian Assize Court, identif…
The interdiscursive construction of irresponsibility as a defence strategy in the Belgian Assize Court
Disclosure and (re)performance of gender-based evidence in an interpreter-mediated asylum interview
In order to handle the complexities of increasing influxes of people, asylum agencies tend to adhere to static categorisations of the variability encountered in the institutional space. This study demonstrates that, although classification is to some extent inevitable, isolation of social categories (gender, age, citizenship) into policy guidelines and routine procedures can be counterproductive in socially heterogeneous settings, such as the asy…
Procedures without borders
Theoretical and applied research in the field of institutional discourse analysis calls for an increasing awareness of the constitutive nature of discourse in the representation and the assessment of social identities (Sarangi & Roberts 1999; Blommaert 2010; Eades 2010). The staunchly textualist accounts surviving institutional practice, however, tend to obscure complex multidiscursive and language ideologically anchored processes that mold proce…
Conducting Dissonance
One of the major inequalities in the field of communication is inequality in access to particular contexts. Context and contextualization, as we have learned from Gumperz and his associates, is the key to understanding and misunderstanding in social interactions. Codeswitching, Gumperz convincingly demonstrated, was a powerful contextualization cue, something which framed and directed people’s interpretation of talk (Gumperz 1982a; Gumperz and Ro…
Monolingual language ideologies and code choice in the Belgian asylum procedure
Identifying the asylum speaker
The objective of this article is to come closer to an empirically grounded perception of the functions linguistic method can serve in the Belgian asylum procedure. It investigates the extent to which linguistic expert vision can anticipate practical problems related to language and identity in the procedure. Given the enormous demand for linguistic expertise in the Belgian asylum procedure, this article will call into question the reliability of …
Identifying the asylum speaker
The objective of this article is to come closer to an empirically grounded perception of the functions linguistic method can serve in the Belgian asylum procedure. It investigates the extent to which linguistic expert vision can anticipate practical problems related to language and identity in the procedure. Given the enormous demand for linguistic expertise in the Belgian asylum procedure, this article will call into question the reliability of …
Stylistic and thematic shifting as a narrative resource
The aim of this paper is to come closer to an empirically grounded view of the functions served by shifting and mixing within an intrinsically mixed speaker's repertoire. We shall do this by means of a detailed narrative analysis of a fragment taken from an autobiographical narrative of a West African asylum seeker. In the data a large variety of ‘shifts’ can be detected at various levels: phonetic, grammatical and paralinguistic. Small linguisti…
Disclosure and (re)performance of gender-based evidence in an interpreter-mediated asylum interview
In order to handle the complexities of increasing influxes of people, asylum agencies tend to adhere to static categorisations of the variability encountered in the institutional space. This study demonstrates that, although classification is to some extent inevitable, isolation of social categories (gender, age, citizenship) into policy guidelines and routine procedures can be counterproductive in socially heterogeneous settings, such as the asy…
Stylistic and thematic shifting as a narrative resource
The aim of this paper is to come closer to an empirically grounded view of the functions served by shifting and mixing within an intrinsically mixed speaker's repertoire. We shall do this by means of a detailed narrative analysis of a fragment taken from an autobiographical narrative of a West African asylum seeker. In the data a large variety of ‘shifts’ can be detected at various levels: phonetic, grammatical and paralinguistic. Small linguisti…
Monolingual language ideologies and code choice in the Belgian asylum procedure
Managing narratives, managing identities
This study examines interactional management practices and narrative co-construction in lawyer-asylum seeker consultations in Flanders, Belgium. Drawing upon linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork, it presents a case study of a consultation between an Afghan applicant for international protection, his adviser, and his lawyer. The purpose of the consultation is to prepare the applicant for testifying at the upcoming asylum hearing. Data analysis focuse…
Orality and authenticity in an interpreter-mediated defendant’s examination
This case study examines how a court’s perception of the defendant’s socio-legal identity may be affected by interpreting. Since this perception relies largely on language, interpreters are expected to minimise their impact on the dynamics of direct communication between primary participants. The analysis focuses on an interpreter-mediated defendant’s examination, recorded in an attempted murder case tried before the Belgian Assize Court, identif…
Data constitution and engagement with the field of asylum and migration
Procedures without borders
Theoretical and applied research in the field of institutional discourse analysis calls for an increasing awareness of the constitutive nature of discourse in the representation and the assessment of social identities (Sarangi & Roberts 1999; Blommaert 2010; Eades 2010). The staunchly textualist accounts surviving institutional practice, however, tend to obscure complex multidiscursive and language ideologically anchored processes that mold proce…
The interdiscursive construction of irresponsibility as a defence strategy in the Belgian Assize Court
Conflicting Expectations of Interpreters’ Roles in the Interaction between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors
Public service interpreters assume a key role in rendering accessible social services to newcomer clients. They could even be considered inherent to social work settings that are multilingual in nature, such as the interactional context of unaccompanied minors and their legal guardians. However, despite the intrinsic linguistic diversity and the unique position of interpreters in this setting, guardian–minor encounters remain unexplored in resear…
Mediated disclosure in asylum encounters
Discursive input functions as the core decisive element in answering the legal dilemma of whether someone is eligible for international protection. This pleads in favour of strengthening the narrative-discursive component in migration studies by offering a micro-sociolinguistic analysis of interactional data from diverse legal encounters with applicants for international protection. This article adopts a case study approach, bringing together two…
But that’s what I’m saying”
Asylum interviews have come to resemble credibility inquiries into applicants’ stories. Their narratives are scrutinised and held against bureaucratic standards of ‘truth’. To meet these standards, applicants for international protection require support in uncovering and reorienting their lived stories into factual accounts. Although this support is typically provided by legal professionals, unaccompanied refugee minors may receive additional gui…
Stylistic and thematic shifting as a narrative resource
The aim of this paper is to come closer to an empirically grounded view of the functions served by shifting and mixing within an intrinsically mixed speaker's repertoire. We shall do this by means of a detailed narrative analysis of a fragment taken from an autobiographical narrative of a West African asylum seeker. In the data a large variety of ‘shifts’ can be detected at various levels: phonetic, grammatical and paralinguistic. Small linguisti…
Identifying the asylum speaker
The objective of this article is to come closer to an empirically grounded perception of the functions linguistic method can serve in the Belgian asylum procedure. It investigates the extent to which linguistic expert vision can anticipate practical problems related to language and identity in the procedure. Given the enormous demand for linguistic expertise in the Belgian asylum procedure, this article will call into question the reliability of …
Identifying the asylum speaker
The objective of this article is to come closer to an empirically grounded perception of the functions linguistic method can serve in the Belgian asylum procedure. It investigates the extent to which linguistic expert vision can anticipate practical problems related to language and identity in the procedure. Given the enormous demand for linguistic expertise in the Belgian asylum procedure, this article will call into question the reliability of …
Monolingual language ideologies and code choice in the Belgian asylum procedure
Conducting Dissonance
One of the major inequalities in the field of communication is inequality in access to particular contexts. Context and contextualization, as we have learned from Gumperz and his associates, is the key to understanding and misunderstanding in social interactions. Codeswitching, Gumperz convincingly demonstrated, was a powerful contextualization cue, something which framed and directed people’s interpretation of talk (Gumperz 1982a; Gumperz and Ro…
Disclosure and (re)performance of gender-based evidence in an interpreter-mediated asylum interview
In order to handle the complexities of increasing influxes of people, asylum agencies tend to adhere to static categorisations of the variability encountered in the institutional space. This study demonstrates that, although classification is to some extent inevitable, isolation of social categories (gender, age, citizenship) into policy guidelines and routine procedures can be counterproductive in socially heterogeneous settings, such as the asy…
Procedures without borders
Theoretical and applied research in the field of institutional discourse analysis calls for an increasing awareness of the constitutive nature of discourse in the representation and the assessment of social identities (Sarangi & Roberts 1999; Blommaert 2010; Eades 2010). The staunchly textualist accounts surviving institutional practice, however, tend to obscure complex multidiscursive and language ideologically anchored processes that mold proce…
Orality and authenticity in an interpreter-mediated defendant’s examination
This case study examines how a court’s perception of the defendant’s socio-legal identity may be affected by interpreting. Since this perception relies largely on language, interpreters are expected to minimise their impact on the dynamics of direct communication between primary participants. The analysis focuses on an interpreter-mediated defendant’s examination, recorded in an attempted murder case tried before the Belgian Assize Court, identif…
The interdiscursive construction of irresponsibility as a defence strategy in the Belgian Assize Court
The Use of English as ad hoc Institutional Standard in the Belgian Asylum Interview
In institutional settings of globalization, labelled languages are generally preferred over multilingual repertoires and mobile language resources. Drawing on linguistic-ethnographic analysis of the way English is treated as an invariable ‘ad hoc’ idiom in the Belgian asylum interview, this article demonstrates how institutional measures and routines relating to multilingualism fail to address the communicative needs and practices of the particip…
Data constitution and engagement with the field of asylum and migration
Exploring (Im)mobilities
The chapters in this volume use ethnographically-based methodologies to address the interconnectedness between forms of mobility and immobility in international migratory processes or in discriminatory practices within the boundaries of national states, thus bringing to light a sociolinguistics responsive to 21st century concerns.
Pretextuality and pretextual gaps
Drawing on the rich tradition of investigations into linguistic inequality, this paper seeks to define the phenomenon of pretextual gaps, i.e. socially anchored and often invisible differences between what is expected in communication and what people can bring and deploy in communication. Pretextual gaps refer to conditions on sayability, differential distribution of access to these conditions, and social evaluations attached to such differences.…
Agency and vulnerability in the field of immigration law
Migrants are often perceived as a group of vulnerable victims, especially within a legal context such as the one in this study: lawyer–client consultations in the field of immigration law. The literature describes how institutional limitations often translate into asymmetric lawyer–client dynamics. The linguistic‐ethnographic data gathered for this study shows, however, that the reality is more complex. In operationalizing the concept of agency, …
Managing narratives, managing identities
This study examines interactional management practices and narrative co-construction in lawyer-asylum seeker consultations in Flanders, Belgium. Drawing upon linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork, it presents a case study of a consultation between an Afghan applicant for international protection, his adviser, and his lawyer. The purpose of the consultation is to prepare the applicant for testifying at the upcoming asylum hearing. Data analysis focuse…
Discursive Tensions of Credibility and Performance in Assessing Lesbian Refugee Claims for International Protection
Mediated disclosure in asylum encounters
Discursive input functions as the core decisive element in answering the legal dilemma of whether someone is eligible for international protection. This pleads in favour of strengthening the narrative-discursive component in migration studies by offering a micro-sociolinguistic analysis of interactional data from diverse legal encounters with applicants for international protection. This article adopts a case study approach, bringing together two…
Conflicting Expectations of Interpreters’ Roles in the Interaction between Guardians and Unaccompanied Minors
Public service interpreters assume a key role in rendering accessible social services to newcomer clients. They could even be considered inherent to social work settings that are multilingual in nature, such as the interactional context of unaccompanied minors and their legal guardians. However, despite the intrinsic linguistic diversity and the unique position of interpreters in this setting, guardian–minor encounters remain unexplored in resear…
But that’s what I’m saying”
Asylum interviews have come to resemble credibility inquiries into applicants’ stories. Their narratives are scrutinised and held against bureaucratic standards of ‘truth’. To meet these standards, applicants for international protection require support in uncovering and reorienting their lived stories into factual accounts. Although this support is typically provided by legal professionals, unaccompanied refugee minors may receive additional gui…
Advancing training in video-mediated interpreting for asylum and refugee settings
Video-mediated interpreting (VMI) can enhance access to language support in asylum reception, but its success relies on context-sensitive guidelines and training. This paper introduces a VMI training framework developed through the European Project EU-WEBPSI, which consolidates research and professional standards into minimum requirements for asylum and refugee contexts. Addressing technical, interactional, and ethical dimensions, it clarifies sh…
Language assistance in the Criminal Court
European Union Directive 2010/64/EU introduces a defendant’s right to receive written translations of documents in criminal proceedings but at the same time it allows Member States to substitute written translations with oral translations or summaries. Through an instrumental case study, this article investigates the implementation and adequacy of substituting written translations with oral interpreting for defendants with limited Dutch proficien…
When Stories Tire
Given the critical role of national authorities in the asylum process, sociolinguistic research on inequalities in narrative assessment has prioritised the high-stakes hearings within the official process. It is, however, also crucial to analyse how non-state actors play a central role in asylum bureaucracies. Accordingly, this article focuses on “helping encounters” with social workers, guardians and lawyers on the “backstage side” of the asylum…
Linguistics (17 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (16 obras) · Law (16 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (10 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 obras) · Refugee (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras)