Marie Jacobs
List of John Benjamins publications in which Marie Jacobs is involved.
Articles
2025 Refugee languages and the right to interpretation: Local language policies of ‘tolerance’ of Belgian asylum lawyers Translation and Interpreting Studies 20:3, pp. 329–351 | Article
This article examines the tensions between the language needs of asylum seekers and how these are addressed in institutional language policy and practice, focusing on the everyday practice of asylum lawyers communicating with their clients, which is characterized by immense linguistic diversity… read more
2024 Intervision Handbook of Pragmatics: 27th Annual Installment, Vandenbroucke, Mieke, Jana Declercq, Frank Brisard and Sigurd D’hondt (eds.), pp. 155–167 | Chapter
2022 The metapragmatics of legal advice communication in the field of immigration law Pragmatics 32:4, pp. 537–561 | Article
Metapragmatic comments are crucial in lawyers’ attempts at managing legal advice communication with asylum seekers. Drawing on linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium, this paper aims to demonstrate how/when/why textual features which tell interactants how to… read more