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Linguistic hospitality and listening through interpreters: critical reflections and recommendations on linguistic power relationships in multilingual research

Tesseur, Wine orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-4882-3623 (2022) Linguistic hospitality and listening through interpreters: critical reflections and recommendations on linguistic power relationships in multilingual research. In: Holmes, Prue orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2923-2350, Reynolds, Judith orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-3154-4919 and Ganassin, Sara orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-0373-542X, (eds.) The politics of Researching Multilingually. Multilingual Matters, Bristol, GB, pp. 31-48. ISBN 9781800410138

This chapter reflects on my experiences of conducting interviews with staff from development organisations in Kyrgyzstan about the role of languages and culture in their work. These thirty-four semistructured interviews, conducted in January 2018, were collected for a case study as part of a larger project that aimed to raise the profile of languages in the development sector, and particularly in contexts in which international NGOs claim to listen to their so-called beneficiaries. The theoretical concept of ‘listening’ was central to the project. In this chapter, I describe how I used the concepts of listening and of linguistic hospitality (Ricoeur 2006) to reflect on my own linguistic practices as a translation studies scholar, who visited Kyrgyzstan as an outsider from a privileged background and who did not speak the local languages but worked with an interpreter. I demonstrate that using these concepts helped me to gain insights into the personal, institutional and sociopolitical issues that influenced my linguistic choices and assumptions. To conclude, I offer practical recommendations for researchers that can help in designing, delivering and reporting on multilingual research in a more linguistically equitable way.
Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Humanities > Language
Humanities > Linguistics
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies
Publisher:Multilingual Matters
Copyright Information:© 2022 Multilingual Matters
Funders:AHRC [AH/M006808/1], Irish Research Council, European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 713279
ID Code:28276
Deposited On:20 Apr 2023 15:20 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 20 Apr 2023 15:20

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