Alys Young

List of John Benjamins publications in which Alys Young is involved.

Articles

Tipton, Rebecca, Jemina Napier, Natalia Rodríguez Vicente, Alys Young, Sarah Vicary and Celia Hulme 2025 ‘Just interpret’: Problematising demands and controls for effective interprofessional working in statutory mental health assessments Interpreting 27:2, pp. 221–251 | Article

This article explores the lived experience of signed and spoken language interpreters in the context of Mental Health Act (1983) assessments (MHAAs) in England, based principally on data from 10 interviews from a wider corpus of the Interpreters for Mental Health Act assessments (INforMHAA)… read more

Napier, Jemina, Rosemary Oram, Alys Young and Robert Skinner 2019 “When I speak people look at me”: British deaf signers’ use of bimodal translanguaging strategies and the representation of identities Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 5:2, pp. 95–120 | Article

Deaf people’s lives are predicated to some extent on working with sign language interpreters. The self is translated on a regular basis and is a long-term state of being. Identity becomes known and performed through the translated self in many interactions, especially at work. (Hearing) others’… read more