Birgit Apfelbaum

List of John Benjamins publications in which Birgit Apfelbaum is involved.

Title

Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings

Edited by Bernd Meyer and Birgit Apfelbaum

This volume focuses on work situations in Europe, North America and South-Africa, such as academic, medical and public sector, or business settings, in which participants have to make constant use of more than one language to cooperate with partners, clients, or colleagues. Central questions are… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 9] 2010. viii, 274 pp.

Articles (5) | Order by:

Apfelbaum, Birgit 2010 The multilingual organization of remembrance in Nazi camp memorials Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings, Meyer, Bernd and Birgit Apfelbaum (eds.), pp. 47–80 | Article

This case study examines the multilingual organization of remembrance in a German Nazi camp memorial. Using tools from ethnographic Conversation Analysis, the author analyzes video-taped core activities from an annual gathering at the memorial site with regard to typical structural configurations… read more

Apfelbaum, Birgit and Bernd Meyer 2010 Multilingualism at work: A brief introduction Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings, Meyer, Bernd and Birgit Apfelbaum (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article

Apfelbaum, Birgit 2007 Conversational dynamics as an instructional resource in interpreter-mediated technical settings The Critical Link 4: Professionalisation of interpreting in the community, Wadensjö, Cecilia, Birgitta Englund Dimitrova and Anna-Lena Nilsson (eds.), pp. 53–63 | Article

Knowledge about interactional patterns community interpreters are involved in is increasingly recognized as being of crucial importance for the successful management of dialogically organized settings. It has been argued that interpreters as well as primary parties systematically and necessarily… read more

Meyer, Bernd, Birgit Apfelbaum, Franz Pöchhacker and Alexandre Bischoff 2003 Analysing Interpreted Doctor–Patient Communication from the Perspectives of Linguistics, Interpreting Studies and Health Sciences The Critical Link 3: Interpreters in the Community, Brunette, Louise, Georges L. Bastin, Isabelle Hemlin and Heather Clarke (eds.), pp. 67–79 | Article

Apfelbaum, Birgit 2002 Constructing identities in language learning MOOs: A conversational perspective Us and Others: Social identities across languages, discourses and cultures, Duszak, Anna † (ed.), pp. 111–130 | Article