Susanne van der Kleij, Interaction in Dutch asylum interviews: A Corpus study of interpreter-mediated institutional discourse. LOT dissertation series. 2015, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics/Landelijke (LOT) (book review)

Abstract

<p>"Interaction in Dutch asylum interviews: A corpus study of interpreter-mediated institutional discourse" sets out Susanne van der Kleij's doctoral research findings, based on the analysis of 14 recorded second-stage asylum interviews from the Dutch Immigration and Naturalization Service (IND).</p> <p>In Chapter 1, van der Kleij provides an overview of the IND, explaining the different procedural stages through which asylum seekers pass, with special attention to the role and nature of interpreting. She describes past reviews of interpreting and its regulation in this setting, and outlines subsequent adjustments to interpreter training, selection and participation in the IND, as well as the revision of a code of conduct for interpreters. She describes institutional discourse in general and asylum interviews in particular, explaining the roles of different participants. Finally, she presents her research questions: the discrepancy between law and practice, "relation between source and translation", rendition quality and the role of the interpreter.</p>