Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 4157446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magdalena |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartłomiejczyk |
| SIGNATURE | BARTŁOMIEJCZYK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Silesia in Katowice |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6645-1849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Theory of Interpreting
Theory of interpreting is a dynamically developing field of study dealing with various aspects of oral and sign language translation in its several modes and a wide range of settings.
‘I’m an arrogant cow because I quarrel with them'. Activist interpreters navigating positionalities in the context of anonymous births
We explore interpreting at anonymous births, presenting data from 13 individual interviews and a group interview with pro-choice activists who provide organizational and linguistic support to Poles traveling to Austria to have an abortion or deliver anonymously. Drawing on research on communication with migrant patients and interpreting in pre-, peri-, and postnatal care, we investigate how the activists view their positionalities in the intricat…
Can you amuse the audience through an interpreter
In this article, I investigate how interpreters handle humorous utterances during plenary debates of the European Parliament, focusing on the input by one Polish Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Janusz Korwin-Mikke. The source speeches (in Polish or English) are analysed bottom-up to identify the types of humour favoured by the speaker. The most frequent ones are irony, ad hominem arguments with an element of ridicule, absurdity, and shif…
The heart will stop beating
This article highlights some ethical questions in activist interpreting in the context of transnational patient mobility, with a specific focus on abortion travel from Poland to Austria. It presents a case study of Ciocia Wienia, a Vienna-based activist collective which facilitates access to abortion mainly for Poles and provides support and interpreting services in abortion clinics. Drawing primarily on the literature on activist interpreting an…
Interpreting Sexist Discourse in the European Parliament
The paper employs critical discourse analysis for a pragmatically-oriented exploration of sexist statements by a Polish Eurosceptic Member of the European Parliament, Janusz Korwin-Mikke. Extracts from plenary speeches (delivered by the controversial politician between 2014 and 2018, originally in Polish or English) are compared with their interpretations into German and, respectively, either English or Polish. The qualitative analysis reveals a …
EP-Poland
This paper reports on the process of building the EP-Poland corpus and on the first empirical applications thereof. This extensive bidirectional English-Polish corpus of original parliamentary contributions paired with professional simultaneous interpretations includes 11 European Parliament debates held between January 2016 and February 2020. The main topic of these debates is the rule of law crisis triggered by the Law and Justice government in…
Interpreters’ explicitating styles
This article investigates explicitation as an indicator of individual interpreters’ style in the outputs of professional interpreters working for the European Parliament. The material used for the study is a sub-corpus of target texts by 12 interpreters extracted from a larger bi-directional parallel corpus of plenary contributions with the aid of voice recognition software. Interpretations from English into Polish and vice versa have been annota…
Interpreting nonmainstream ideology (Euroscepticism) in the European Parliament
The paper investigates possible ideological shifts introduced by interpreters during plenary debates in the European Parliament when dealing with strongly Eurosceptic statements. The material undergoing this discourse analysis are Polish and English plenary contributions by a highly controversial politician, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, and the corresponding interpretations into the other language of this pair. The focus is on his Eurosceptic credo which…
Parliamentary impoliteness and the interpreter’s gender
Impoliteness is a common phenomenon across various democratically elected parliaments. However, in multilingual legislative bodies such as the European Parliament speakers have to rely on interpreters to transfer pragmatic meaning, including face-threatening acts and impoliteness. The existing research in the field of Interpreting Studies offers much evidence of the filtering effect that interpreting may have on impoliteness, through facework str…
How much noise can you make through an interpreter
The paper employs critical discourse analysis for a pragmatically-oriented exploration of several racist statements by a Polish Eurosceptic Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Janusz Korwin-Mikke. The original fragments in English or in Polish were extracted from a larger corpus containing all the plenary contributions of the MEP (2014–2018). They are compared with their interpretations into German and, respectively, either Polish or Englis…
The interpreter’s visibility in the European Parliament
This ethnographic study aims to shed light on how the services of simultaneous interpreters working during plenary sessions of the European Parliament are perceived and evaluated by the users, i.e. mainly Members of the European Parliament and other European Union officials. The corpus analysed covers all the plenaries in the eight-year period 2005–2012. The aim was to examine references to interpreters and/or their output made by the speakers. A…
Strategies of simultaneous interpreting and directionality
This article describes an experimental study on strategies of simultaneous interpreting used by 36 advanced students working in two directions: from English (B) into Polish (A) and the reverse. The material analysed comprises retrospective remarks provided by the subjects, prompted by listening to the source texts and their interpretations directly after the interpreting task. Twenty-one interpreting strategies were identified; a detailed classif…
Strategies of simultaneous interpreting and directionality
This article describes an experimental study on strategies of simultaneous interpreting used by 36 advanced students working in two directions: from English (B) into Polish (A) and the reverse. The material analysed comprises retrospective remarks provided by the subjects, prompted by listening to the source texts and their interpretations directly after the interpreting task. Twenty-one interpreting strategies were identified; a detailed classif…
How much noise can you make through an interpreter
The paper employs critical discourse analysis for a pragmatically-oriented exploration of several racist statements by a Polish Eurosceptic Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Janusz Korwin-Mikke. The original fragments in English or in Polish were extracted from a larger corpus containing all the plenary contributions of the MEP (2014–2018). They are compared with their interpretations into German and, respectively, either Polish or Englis…
The interpreter’s visibility in the European Parliament
This ethnographic study aims to shed light on how the services of simultaneous interpreters working during plenary sessions of the European Parliament are perceived and evaluated by the users, i.e. mainly Members of the European Parliament and other European Union officials. The corpus analysed covers all the plenaries in the eight-year period 2005–2012. The aim was to examine references to interpreters and/or their output made by the speakers. A…
The heart will stop beating
This article highlights some ethical questions in activist interpreting in the context of transnational patient mobility, with a specific focus on abortion travel from Poland to Austria. It presents a case study of Ciocia Wienia, a Vienna-based activist collective which facilitates access to abortion mainly for Poles and provides support and interpreting services in abortion clinics. Drawing primarily on the literature on activist interpreting an…
Interpreters’ explicitating styles
This article investigates explicitation as an indicator of individual interpreters’ style in the outputs of professional interpreters working for the European Parliament. The material used for the study is a sub-corpus of target texts by 12 interpreters extracted from a larger bi-directional parallel corpus of plenary contributions with the aid of voice recognition software. Interpretations from English into Polish and vice versa have been annota…
Interpreting nonmainstream ideology (Euroscepticism) in the European Parliament
The paper investigates possible ideological shifts introduced by interpreters during plenary debates in the European Parliament when dealing with strongly Eurosceptic statements. The material undergoing this discourse analysis are Polish and English plenary contributions by a highly controversial politician, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, and the corresponding interpretations into the other language of this pair. The focus is on his Eurosceptic credo which…
Strategies of simultaneous interpreting and directionality
This article describes an experimental study on strategies of simultaneous interpreting used by 36 advanced students working in two directions: from English (B) into Polish (A) and the reverse. The material analysed comprises retrospective remarks provided by the subjects, prompted by listening to the source texts and their interpretations directly after the interpreting task. Twenty-one interpreting strategies were identified; a detailed classif…
The interpreter’s visibility in the European Parliament
This ethnographic study aims to shed light on how the services of simultaneous interpreters working during plenary sessions of the European Parliament are perceived and evaluated by the users, i.e. mainly Members of the European Parliament and other European Union officials. The corpus analysed covers all the plenaries in the eight-year period 2005–2012. The aim was to examine references to interpreters and/or their output made by the speakers. A…
Parliamentary impoliteness and the interpreter’s gender
Impoliteness is a common phenomenon across various democratically elected parliaments. However, in multilingual legislative bodies such as the European Parliament speakers have to rely on interpreters to transfer pragmatic meaning, including face-threatening acts and impoliteness. The existing research in the field of Interpreting Studies offers much evidence of the filtering effect that interpreting may have on impoliteness, through facework str…
How much noise can you make through an interpreter
The paper employs critical discourse analysis for a pragmatically-oriented exploration of several racist statements by a Polish Eurosceptic Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Janusz Korwin-Mikke. The original fragments in English or in Polish were extracted from a larger corpus containing all the plenary contributions of the MEP (2014–2018). They are compared with their interpretations into German and, respectively, either Polish or Englis…
Interpreting nonmainstream ideology (Euroscepticism) in the European Parliament
The paper investigates possible ideological shifts introduced by interpreters during plenary debates in the European Parliament when dealing with strongly Eurosceptic statements. The material undergoing this discourse analysis are Polish and English plenary contributions by a highly controversial politician, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, and the corresponding interpretations into the other language of this pair. The focus is on his Eurosceptic credo which…
EP-Poland
This paper reports on the process of building the EP-Poland corpus and on the first empirical applications thereof. This extensive bidirectional English-Polish corpus of original parliamentary contributions paired with professional simultaneous interpretations includes 11 European Parliament debates held between January 2016 and February 2020. The main topic of these debates is the rule of law crisis triggered by the Law and Justice government in…
Interpreters’ explicitating styles
This article investigates explicitation as an indicator of individual interpreters’ style in the outputs of professional interpreters working for the European Parliament. The material used for the study is a sub-corpus of target texts by 12 interpreters extracted from a larger bi-directional parallel corpus of plenary contributions with the aid of voice recognition software. Interpretations from English into Polish and vice versa have been annota…
Interpreting Sexist Discourse in the European Parliament
The paper employs critical discourse analysis for a pragmatically-oriented exploration of sexist statements by a Polish Eurosceptic Member of the European Parliament, Janusz Korwin-Mikke. Extracts from plenary speeches (delivered by the controversial politician between 2014 and 2018, originally in Polish or English) are compared with their interpretations into German and, respectively, either English or Polish. The qualitative analysis reveals a …
Can you amuse the audience through an interpreter
In this article, I investigate how interpreters handle humorous utterances during plenary debates of the European Parliament, focusing on the input by one Polish Member of the European Parliament (MEP), Janusz Korwin-Mikke. The source speeches (in Polish or English) are analysed bottom-up to identify the types of humour favoured by the speaker. The most frequent ones are irony, ad hominem arguments with an element of ridicule, absurdity, and shif…
The heart will stop beating
This article highlights some ethical questions in activist interpreting in the context of transnational patient mobility, with a specific focus on abortion travel from Poland to Austria. It presents a case study of Ciocia Wienia, a Vienna-based activist collective which facilitates access to abortion mainly for Poles and provides support and interpreting services in abortion clinics. Drawing primarily on the literature on activist interpreting an…
Theory of Interpreting
Theory of interpreting is a dynamically developing field of study dealing with various aspects of oral and sign language translation in its several modes and a wide range of settings.
‘I’m an arrogant cow because I quarrel with them'. Activist interpreters navigating positionalities in the context of anonymous births
We explore interpreting at anonymous births, presenting data from 13 individual interviews and a group interview with pro-choice activists who provide organizational and linguistic support to Poles traveling to Austria to have an abortion or deliver anonymously. Drawing on research on communication with migrant patients and interpreting in pre-, peri-, and postnatal care, we investigate how the activists view their positionalities in the intricat…
Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Interpreter (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Parliament (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Law (5 works)