Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 738368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philipp Sebastian Angermeyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philipp Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Angermeyer |
| SIGNATURE | ANGERMEYER P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2506-8533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From punitive multilingualism and forensic translation towards linguistic justice
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Translation as discrimination: Sociolinguistics and inequality in multilingual institutional contexts
Sociolinguistic approaches to social justice tend to treat the use of interpreters or translators as a remedy to linguistic inequality in multilingual institutional settings. This article challenges this assumption by showing how translation can instead contribute to inequality and discrimination. Drawing on studies of face-to-face interpreting in judicial contexts and of written translation in linguistic landscapes, it explores inequalities foun…
Beyond translation equivalence: Advocating pragmatic equality before the law
Controlling Roma refugees with ‘Google-Hungarian: Indexing deviance, contempt, and belonging in Toronto's linguistic landscape
This article investigates signage in the linguistic landscape of Toronto that is addressed to Hungarian-speaking Roma asylum applicants, focusing on multilingual public-order signs that convey warnings or prohibitions. Such signs are produced by institutional agents who often use machine translation (Google Translate), yielding ungrammatical texts in ostensible Hungarian. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, the article explores the indexicalities…
Indexicality and subjective perceptions of the linguistic landscape
The handbooks of sociolinguistics: Defining and dividing the field
Monolingual ideologies and multilingual practices in small claims court: The case of Spanish-speaking arbitrators
This article explores the institutional policies and practices concerning multilingualism in small claims courts in New York City. Building on prior work that has investigated the language use of court interpreters and of the litigants for whom they translate, this study focuses on the analysis of institutional interactions in which all participants, including the arbitrators who decide the cases, are speakers of Spanish. Court interpreters are r…
Multilingual speakers and language choice in the legal sphere
This paper explores the effects of linguistic diversity on equality before the law, by surveying sociolinguistic and applied research that investigates interaction between speakers of different languages in a variety of legal institutions, including genres such as courtroom talk, police interrogations, and asylum interviews. While the institutions have official languages that are used by agents working in them, many people who interact with them …
The Routledge handbook of sociolinguistcs around the world
Interpreter-mediated interaction as bilingual speech: Bridging macro- and micro-sociolinguistics in codeswitching research
This article investigates codeswitching, codemixing, and other bilingual speech phenomena in interpreter-mediated interaction, a type of data that has been largely ignored by linguists working on bilingualism. It is argued that important theoretical considerations exist for considering such data, as it represents interaction between speakers of the different languages that are in contact (exolingual interaction) and thus enables the researcher to…
Coerced Confessions: The Discourse of Bilingual Police Interrogations. Susan Berk-Seligson (2009)
Can equality before the law exist despite linguistic differences between individuals? This question, often conceptualized in terms of language 'barriers' , has emerged as one of the central concerns of research in language and law. It has been explored primarily in the context of court interpreting, and, beginning with Berk-Seligson's (1990) book on interpreting for Spanish-speaking defendants in US courts, researchers have often made explicit po…
Translation style and participant roles in court interpreting1
This paper investigates the translation styles of court interpreters in New York City and the styles' social and pragmatic implications for multilingual interactions in court. Interpreters are found to vary between using first or third person to represent the voice of a translated source speaker, thereby varying between adherence to explicit institutional norms that require first person and accommodation to non-professional interpreting practices…
Creating monolingualism in the multilingual courtroom
This paper contributes to research that has identified an institutional bias towards monolingualism in the legal sphere (Eades 2003, Haviland 2003), investigating how this ‘monolingual worldview’ (Ellis 2006) affects interactions between speakers of minority languages and courtroom professionals in New York City Small Claims Court. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and a data-set of 40 recorded arbitration hearings that include speakers of Spanis…
‘Speak English or what?’ Codeswitching and interpreter use in New York Small Claims Courts
Awarding Institution: New York University, USA Date of Award: May 2006
Spelling bilingualism: Script choice in Russian American classified ads and signage
This article investigates the role of script choice in bilingual writing, drawing on classified advertisements and other texts written for and by Russian-speaking immigrants in New York City. The study focuses on English-origin items that appear in Russian texts, which are found to be written either in roman or Cyrillic script. Through an investigation of categorical and variable constraints on this variation, it is found that script choice relat…
The case for politeness: Pronoun variation in co-ordinate NPs in object position in English
The use of the nominative 1sg pronouns in co-ordinate NPs in object position, most famously between you and I, has received much attention from prescriptivists and formal linguists, but it has never been the object of a variationist study that compares its usage to that of other variants. This article seeks to fill the gap, based on a data set of co-ordinate NPs in object position, gathered through observation of everyday speech as well as in exp…
Lexical cohesion in multilingual conversation
Many studies have shown intersentential codeswitching to be related to conversational structure. In this paper, I argue that insertion can be explained in these terms as well. Drawing on Halliday's and Hasan's(1976) notion of cohesive tie, I claim that insertions are a consequence of the bilingual speaker's attempt to create coherence between utterances in different languages. By repeating a lexical item from a previous utterance even if the lang…
Translation style and participant roles in court interpreting1
This paper investigates the translation styles of court interpreters in New York City and the styles' social and pragmatic implications for multilingual interactions in court. Interpreters are found to vary between using first or third person to represent the voice of a translated source speaker, thereby varying between adherence to explicit institutional norms that require first person and accommodation to non-professional interpreting practices…
Beyond translation equivalence: Advocating pragmatic equality before the law
Creating monolingualism in the multilingual courtroom
This paper contributes to research that has identified an institutional bias towards monolingualism in the legal sphere (Eades 2003, Haviland 2003), investigating how this ‘monolingual worldview’ (Ellis 2006) affects interactions between speakers of minority languages and courtroom professionals in New York City Small Claims Court. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and a data-set of 40 recorded arbitration hearings that include speakers of Spanis…
Controlling Roma refugees with ‘Google-Hungarian: Indexing deviance, contempt, and belonging in Toronto's linguistic landscape
This article investigates signage in the linguistic landscape of Toronto that is addressed to Hungarian-speaking Roma asylum applicants, focusing on multilingual public-order signs that convey warnings or prohibitions. Such signs are produced by institutional agents who often use machine translation (Google Translate), yielding ungrammatical texts in ostensible Hungarian. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, the article explores the indexicalities…
Spelling bilingualism: Script choice in Russian American classified ads and signage
This article investigates the role of script choice in bilingual writing, drawing on classified advertisements and other texts written for and by Russian-speaking immigrants in New York City. The study focuses on English-origin items that appear in Russian texts, which are found to be written either in roman or Cyrillic script. Through an investigation of categorical and variable constraints on this variation, it is found that script choice relat…
Translation as discrimination: Sociolinguistics and inequality in multilingual institutional contexts
Sociolinguistic approaches to social justice tend to treat the use of interpreters or translators as a remedy to linguistic inequality in multilingual institutional settings. This article challenges this assumption by showing how translation can instead contribute to inequality and discrimination. Drawing on studies of face-to-face interpreting in judicial contexts and of written translation in linguistic landscapes, it explores inequalities foun…
The case for politeness: Pronoun variation in co-ordinate NPs in object position in English
The use of the nominative 1sg pronouns in co-ordinate NPs in object position, most famously between you and I, has received much attention from prescriptivists and formal linguists, but it has never been the object of a variationist study that compares its usage to that of other variants. This article seeks to fill the gap, based on a data set of co-ordinate NPs in object position, gathered through observation of everyday speech as well as in exp…
The handbooks of sociolinguistics: Defining and dividing the field
Monolingual ideologies and multilingual practices in small claims court: The case of Spanish-speaking arbitrators
This article explores the institutional policies and practices concerning multilingualism in small claims courts in New York City. Building on prior work that has investigated the language use of court interpreters and of the litigants for whom they translate, this study focuses on the analysis of institutional interactions in which all participants, including the arbitrators who decide the cases, are speakers of Spanish. Court interpreters are r…
Lexical cohesion in multilingual conversation
Many studies have shown intersentential codeswitching to be related to conversational structure. In this paper, I argue that insertion can be explained in these terms as well. Drawing on Halliday's and Hasan's(1976) notion of cohesive tie, I claim that insertions are a consequence of the bilingual speaker's attempt to create coherence between utterances in different languages. By repeating a lexical item from a previous utterance even if the lang…
The case for politeness: Pronoun variation in co-ordinate NPs in object position in English
The use of the nominative 1sg pronouns in co-ordinate NPs in object position, most famously between you and I, has received much attention from prescriptivists and formal linguists, but it has never been the object of a variationist study that compares its usage to that of other variants. This article seeks to fill the gap, based on a data set of co-ordinate NPs in object position, gathered through observation of everyday speech as well as in exp…
Spelling bilingualism: Script choice in Russian American classified ads and signage
This article investigates the role of script choice in bilingual writing, drawing on classified advertisements and other texts written for and by Russian-speaking immigrants in New York City. The study focuses on English-origin items that appear in Russian texts, which are found to be written either in roman or Cyrillic script. Through an investigation of categorical and variable constraints on this variation, it is found that script choice relat…
‘Speak English or what?’ Codeswitching and interpreter use in New York Small Claims Courts
Awarding Institution: New York University, USA Date of Award: May 2006
Creating monolingualism in the multilingual courtroom
This paper contributes to research that has identified an institutional bias towards monolingualism in the legal sphere (Eades 2003, Haviland 2003), investigating how this ‘monolingual worldview’ (Ellis 2006) affects interactions between speakers of minority languages and courtroom professionals in New York City Small Claims Court. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and a data-set of 40 recorded arbitration hearings that include speakers of Spanis…
Translation style and participant roles in court interpreting1
This paper investigates the translation styles of court interpreters in New York City and the styles' social and pragmatic implications for multilingual interactions in court. Interpreters are found to vary between using first or third person to represent the voice of a translated source speaker, thereby varying between adherence to explicit institutional norms that require first person and accommodation to non-professional interpreting practices…
Interpreter-mediated interaction as bilingual speech: Bridging macro- and micro-sociolinguistics in codeswitching research
This article investigates codeswitching, codemixing, and other bilingual speech phenomena in interpreter-mediated interaction, a type of data that has been largely ignored by linguists working on bilingualism. It is argued that important theoretical considerations exist for considering such data, as it represents interaction between speakers of the different languages that are in contact (exolingual interaction) and thus enables the researcher to…
Coerced Confessions: The Discourse of Bilingual Police Interrogations. Susan Berk-Seligson (2009)
Can equality before the law exist despite linguistic differences between individuals? This question, often conceptualized in terms of language 'barriers' , has emerged as one of the central concerns of research in language and law. It has been explored primarily in the context of court interpreting, and, beginning with Berk-Seligson's (1990) book on interpreting for Spanish-speaking defendants in US courts, researchers have often made explicit po…
The Routledge handbook of sociolinguistcs around the world
Multilingual speakers and language choice in the legal sphere
This paper explores the effects of linguistic diversity on equality before the law, by surveying sociolinguistic and applied research that investigates interaction between speakers of different languages in a variety of legal institutions, including genres such as courtroom talk, police interrogations, and asylum interviews. While the institutions have official languages that are used by agents working in them, many people who interact with them …
Monolingual ideologies and multilingual practices in small claims court: The case of Spanish-speaking arbitrators
This article explores the institutional policies and practices concerning multilingualism in small claims courts in New York City. Building on prior work that has investigated the language use of court interpreters and of the litigants for whom they translate, this study focuses on the analysis of institutional interactions in which all participants, including the arbitrators who decide the cases, are speakers of Spanish. Court interpreters are r…
Indexicality and subjective perceptions of the linguistic landscape
The handbooks of sociolinguistics: Defining and dividing the field
Controlling Roma refugees with ‘Google-Hungarian: Indexing deviance, contempt, and belonging in Toronto's linguistic landscape
This article investigates signage in the linguistic landscape of Toronto that is addressed to Hungarian-speaking Roma asylum applicants, focusing on multilingual public-order signs that convey warnings or prohibitions. Such signs are produced by institutional agents who often use machine translation (Google Translate), yielding ungrammatical texts in ostensible Hungarian. Drawing on ethnographic interviews, the article explores the indexicalities…
Beyond translation equivalence: Advocating pragmatic equality before the law
From punitive multilingualism and forensic translation towards linguistic justice
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Translation as discrimination: Sociolinguistics and inequality in multilingual institutional contexts
Sociolinguistic approaches to social justice tend to treat the use of interpreters or translators as a remedy to linguistic inequality in multilingual institutional settings. This article challenges this assumption by showing how translation can instead contribute to inequality and discrimination. Drawing on studies of face-to-face interpreting in judicial contexts and of written translation in linguistic landscapes, it explores inequalities foun…
Linguistics (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Interpreter (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works)