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The role of the interpreter in asylum procedure involving Chinese-speaking migrants
 Gutvirthová, Jana ; Rejšková, Jana (referee) ; Čeňková, Ivana (advisor)
The presented thesis adopts a descriptive approach towards examining the role of the CzechChinese interpreter in asylum procedure involving Chinese-speaking migrants. Based on both recent theoretical findings and empirical researches conducted in the field of interpreted communication in various institutional settings, it suggests the untenability of a passive and mechanistic definition of the role of the interpreter and advocates a dialogic approach to the interpreted communication event reflecting contextual and pragmatic aspects of the interlingual communication process. Following an empirical survey carried out among Czech interpreters for Chinese asylum seekers, the thesis argues that most interpreters are aware of the communicative dimension of the interpreting process and the inherent differences of cultural and social backgrounds between individual participants. This awareness is then manifested in the way they perceive and their define their own role in the interpreting process as both linguistic and and cultural mediators. The actual performance of the interpreter's role is thus viewed rather as active and visible contrary to the expectations of legal professionals involved in the asylum procedure, whose insistence on passive and invisible definition of interpreter's role makes their demands...
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