Susan Berk-Seligson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Susan Berk-Seligson is involved.
2016 Reported threats: The routinization of violence in Central America Pragmatics 26:4, pp. 583–607 | Article
This study offers new insights into the complex and underexplored nature of reported threats. Combining the theoretical framework of speech act analysis with the concept of reported speech, the study finds six categories of reported threats, uncovering ones that have been overlooked by existing… read more
2011 Review of Russell & Hale (2008): Interpreting in legal settings Interpreting 13:2, pp. 258–263 | Review
2010 Judicial systems in contact: Access to justice and the right to interpreting/translating services among the Quichua of Ecuador Doing Justice to Court Interpreting, Shlesinger, Miriam † and Franz Pöchhacker (eds.), pp. 29–53 | Article
2008 Judicial systems in contact: Access to justice and the right to interpreting/translating services among the Quichua of Ecuador Doing Justice to Court Interpreting, Shlesinger, Miriam † and Franz Pöchhacker (eds.), pp. 9–33 | Article
The Quichua of Ecuador, along with other indigenous peoples of Latin America, have been struggling to attain the right to use their ancestral language and their traditional ways of administering justice in an effort to gain greater autonomy in a variety of sociopolitical spheres of life. Based on… read more
1983 Virginia Zúñiga Tristán. El anglicismo en el habla costarricense Language Problems and Language Planning 7:1, pp. 113–115 | Miscellaneous