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Project

The international dynamics of multiple monolingualism in the Belgian asylum procedure

This project investigates the ways in which linguistic diversity and multilingualism are institutionally managed in the Belgian asylum procedure. Drawing on linguistic-ethnographic data, this study (a) analyses language ideological issues related to competing forms of multilingualism, with a particular focus on interpreting practice and LADO applications and (b) explores how the observed interactional dynamics may affect the legal-institutional construction of evidence and identity in asylum cases.

Date:1 Oct 2010 →  1 Oct 2011
Keywords:legal interpreting, multilingualism, discursive identity construction
Disciplines:Literary studies, Linguistics, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Other languages and literary studies, Theory and methodology of language studies