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Review article published In: Unpacking Sign Language Interpreting: Special issue of the Journal on Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:3 (2022)
Edited by Hilde Haualand, Maartje De Meulder and Jemina Napier
[Translation and Interpreting Studies 17:3] 2022
► pp. 351–358

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Introduction

Unpacking sign language interpreting as a social institution

The missing macro perspective?

ORCiD logo with link | OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
ORCiD logo with link | Hogeschool Utrecht | Heriot-Watt University
 | Heriot-Watt University
Published online: 10 March 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.00055.hau
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