Rebecca Tipton
Biographic Data
| ID | 2385169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Tipton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Tipton |
| SIGNATURE | TIPTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6974-8226 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The luxury of time: A reflexive thematic analysis of omnipresence, contradiction, and passivity in interpreter-mediated mental health act assessments
This paper explores the notion of time when undertaking interpreter-mediated Mental Health Act Assessments (MHAAs) from the perspective of Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs). It is based on one theme that emerged from a reflexive thematic analysis of 17 semi-structured interviews with AMHPs undertaken as part of a larger corpus ( Young et al., 2023 ). We found when carrying out interpreter-mediated MHAAs, AMHPs perceive time as luxury; …
Just interpret: Problematising demands and controls for effective interprofessional working in statutory mental health assessments
This article explores the lived experience of signed and spoken language interpreters in the context of Mental Health Act (1983) assessments (MHAAs) in England, based principally on data from 10 interviews from a wider corpus of the Interpreters for Mental Health Act assessments (INforMHAA) study (2021–2024). Informed by Braun and Clarke’s (2022) reflexive thematic analysis and Dean and Pollard’s (2001) Demand Control Schema, the present study in…
Interpreter mediation in statutory mental health assessments: A scoping review
This interdisciplinary scoping review addresses the involvement of spoken and signed language interpreters in statutory mental health assessments. Specifically, this inquiry seeks to identify and review pre-existing literature concerning the barriers to and facilitators of effective practice in interpreter-mediated statutory mental health assessments, and the extent to which interpreter mediation supports or impedes a person’s legal rights and be…
Mental health professionals' (AMHPs) perspectives on interpreter-mediated mental health act assessments
This article concerns interpreter-mediated Mental Health Act (MHA) (1983) assessments where either a signed or spoken language interpreter is required. It reports data from 132 Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) in England who have direct experience of such circumstances addressing expertise, training, readiness, and potential influences on the outcome when interpreters are involved. Quantitative data were collected by means of an onlin…
Vietnamese refugees in Britain: Language, translation, and the politics of protection in camp life and beyond
Through the lens of assemblage thinking and “territorialisation,” this article examines the operationalisation of language support by the voluntary sector in the Thorney Island and Sopley camps, which temporarily accommodated Vietnamese refugee arrivals in Britain in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Drawing on archival sources, the role and agency of interpreters are foregrounded in an analysis of the relationships between the materiality of the c…
‘Yes I understand’: Language choice, question formation and code-switching in interpreter-mediated police interviews with victim-survivors of domestic abuse
This article presents the findings of the analysis of authentic interpreter-mediated police interviews with victim-survivors of domestic abuse with a focus on question formation and delivery, language choice and code-switching. It is set against the backdrop of the forces wide inspection of police response to domestic abuse in England and Wales and implementation of EU Directive EU/2012/29 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and…
(Re-)voicing Beijing’s discourse through self-referentiality: A corpus-based CDA analysis of government interpreters’ discursive mediation at China’s political press conferences (1998–2017)
The premier's annual press conferences are an interpreter-mediated and institutionalised event, which enables the Chinese government to articulate its official discourse on a variety of topics in front of a domestic and international audience. Framing the conferences as part of an autopoietic system, following Luhmann, helps to shed light on the imperative for such systems to legitimate themselves for their autonomous and continued existence thro…
Exploring the Esol-PSIT relation: Interpellation, resistance and resilience
This article explores the relationship between English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and Public Service Interpreting and Translation (PSIT) and the problematic juxtaposition of the two in Government discourse. I analyse the discursive construction of the ESOL/PSIT subject at different levels and problematise language support provisions as acts of interpellation, drawing on quantitative and qualitative data collected in conjunction with a…
Interpreters as technologies of care and control: Language support for refugees in Britain following the 1956 Hungarian uprising
This article investigates aspects of intercultural communication in institutional interaction with refugees in Britain following the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Their arrival, against a backdrop of Cold War politics and the ongoing Suez crisis, constituted Britain’s first test as a signatory to the 1951 UN Convention on the Status of Refugees. While accounts of displaced persons in 20th century Britain mention communication problems, the impact of i…
Ideology, Ethics and Policy Development in Public Service Interpreting and Translation
Perceptions of the ‘Occupational Other’: Interpreters, Social Workers and Intercultures
This article investigates occupational intercultures generated between interpreters and social workers, and is informed by research in Translation and Interpreting Studies. The Bourdieusian concepts of field, habitus and zones of uncertainty are used to illuminate the particular status of interpreter mediation within the interculture as a backdrop to theorising about the impact of interpreter mediation on the nature of social workers' change agen…
Public service interpreting and the politics of entitlement for new entrants to the United Kingdom
This article examines the function and perception of public service interpreting provision in contemporary Britain against the backdrop of conflict that has emerged in media and political circles as a result of the spiralling cost of such provision. Using an approach based on critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2000, 2003; Fowler 1991) the article begins by examining a corpus of media reports in which the twin societal aims of community cohes…
(Re-)voicing Beijing’s discourse through self-referentiality: A corpus-based CDA analysis of government interpreters’ discursive mediation at China’s political press conferences (1998–2017)
The premier's annual press conferences are an interpreter-mediated and institutionalised event, which enables the Chinese government to articulate its official discourse on a variety of topics in front of a domestic and international audience. Framing the conferences as part of an autopoietic system, following Luhmann, helps to shed light on the imperative for such systems to legitimate themselves for their autonomous and continued existence thro…
Perceptions of the ‘Occupational Other’: Interpreters, Social Workers and Intercultures
This article investigates occupational intercultures generated between interpreters and social workers, and is informed by research in Translation and Interpreting Studies. The Bourdieusian concepts of field, habitus and zones of uncertainty are used to illuminate the particular status of interpreter mediation within the interculture as a backdrop to theorising about the impact of interpreter mediation on the nature of social workers' change agen…
Public service interpreting and the politics of entitlement for new entrants to the United Kingdom
This article examines the function and perception of public service interpreting provision in contemporary Britain against the backdrop of conflict that has emerged in media and political circles as a result of the spiralling cost of such provision. Using an approach based on critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2000, 2003; Fowler 1991) the article begins by examining a corpus of media reports in which the twin societal aims of community cohes…
Exploring the Esol-PSIT relation: Interpellation, resistance and resilience
This article explores the relationship between English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and Public Service Interpreting and Translation (PSIT) and the problematic juxtaposition of the two in Government discourse. I analyse the discursive construction of the ESOL/PSIT subject at different levels and problematise language support provisions as acts of interpellation, drawing on quantitative and qualitative data collected in conjunction with a…
Public service interpreting and the politics of entitlement for new entrants to the United Kingdom
This article examines the function and perception of public service interpreting provision in contemporary Britain against the backdrop of conflict that has emerged in media and political circles as a result of the spiralling cost of such provision. Using an approach based on critical discourse analysis (Fairclough 2000, 2003; Fowler 1991) the article begins by examining a corpus of media reports in which the twin societal aims of community cohes…
Perceptions of the ‘Occupational Other’: Interpreters, Social Workers and Intercultures
This article investigates occupational intercultures generated between interpreters and social workers, and is informed by research in Translation and Interpreting Studies. The Bourdieusian concepts of field, habitus and zones of uncertainty are used to illuminate the particular status of interpreter mediation within the interculture as a backdrop to theorising about the impact of interpreter mediation on the nature of social workers' change agen…
Ideology, Ethics and Policy Development in Public Service Interpreting and Translation
Interpreters as technologies of care and control: Language support for refugees in Britain following the 1956 Hungarian uprising
This article investigates aspects of intercultural communication in institutional interaction with refugees in Britain following the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Their arrival, against a backdrop of Cold War politics and the ongoing Suez crisis, constituted Britain’s first test as a signatory to the 1951 UN Convention on the Status of Refugees. While accounts of displaced persons in 20th century Britain mention communication problems, the impact of i…
Exploring the Esol-PSIT relation: Interpellation, resistance and resilience
This article explores the relationship between English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and Public Service Interpreting and Translation (PSIT) and the problematic juxtaposition of the two in Government discourse. I analyse the discursive construction of the ESOL/PSIT subject at different levels and problematise language support provisions as acts of interpellation, drawing on quantitative and qualitative data collected in conjunction with a…
(Re-)voicing Beijing’s discourse through self-referentiality: A corpus-based CDA analysis of government interpreters’ discursive mediation at China’s political press conferences (1998–2017)
The premier's annual press conferences are an interpreter-mediated and institutionalised event, which enables the Chinese government to articulate its official discourse on a variety of topics in front of a domestic and international audience. Framing the conferences as part of an autopoietic system, following Luhmann, helps to shed light on the imperative for such systems to legitimate themselves for their autonomous and continued existence thro…
Vietnamese refugees in Britain: Language, translation, and the politics of protection in camp life and beyond
Through the lens of assemblage thinking and “territorialisation,” this article examines the operationalisation of language support by the voluntary sector in the Thorney Island and Sopley camps, which temporarily accommodated Vietnamese refugee arrivals in Britain in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Drawing on archival sources, the role and agency of interpreters are foregrounded in an analysis of the relationships between the materiality of the c…
‘Yes I understand’: Language choice, question formation and code-switching in interpreter-mediated police interviews with victim-survivors of domestic abuse
This article presents the findings of the analysis of authentic interpreter-mediated police interviews with victim-survivors of domestic abuse with a focus on question formation and delivery, language choice and code-switching. It is set against the backdrop of the forces wide inspection of police response to domestic abuse in England and Wales and implementation of EU Directive EU/2012/29 establishing minimum standards on the rights, support and…
Interpreter mediation in statutory mental health assessments: A scoping review
This interdisciplinary scoping review addresses the involvement of spoken and signed language interpreters in statutory mental health assessments. Specifically, this inquiry seeks to identify and review pre-existing literature concerning the barriers to and facilitators of effective practice in interpreter-mediated statutory mental health assessments, and the extent to which interpreter mediation supports or impedes a person’s legal rights and be…
Mental health professionals' (AMHPs) perspectives on interpreter-mediated mental health act assessments
This article concerns interpreter-mediated Mental Health Act (MHA) (1983) assessments where either a signed or spoken language interpreter is required. It reports data from 132 Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs) in England who have direct experience of such circumstances addressing expertise, training, readiness, and potential influences on the outcome when interpreters are involved. Quantitative data were collected by means of an onlin…
The luxury of time: A reflexive thematic analysis of omnipresence, contradiction, and passivity in interpreter-mediated mental health act assessments
This paper explores the notion of time when undertaking interpreter-mediated Mental Health Act Assessments (MHAAs) from the perspective of Approved Mental Health Professionals (AMHPs). It is based on one theme that emerged from a reflexive thematic analysis of 17 semi-structured interviews with AMHPs undertaken as part of a larger corpus ( Young et al., 2023 ). We found when carrying out interpreter-mediated MHAAs, AMHPs perceive time as luxury; …
Just interpret: Problematising demands and controls for effective interprofessional working in statutory mental health assessments
This article explores the lived experience of signed and spoken language interpreters in the context of Mental Health Act (1983) assessments (MHAAs) in England, based principally on data from 10 interviews from a wider corpus of the Interpreters for Mental Health Act assessments (INforMHAA) study (2021–2024). Informed by Braun and Clarke’s (2022) reflexive thematic analysis and Dean and Pollard’s (2001) Demand Control Schema, the present study in…
Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Interpreter (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Social science (5 works)