Impoliteness in interpreting: a question of gender?

@inproceedings{Magnifico2016ImpolitenessII,
  title={Impoliteness in interpreting: a question of gender?},
  author={C{\'e}dric Magnifico and Bart Defrancq},
  year={2016}
}
This paper reports on a study carried out on corpus data drawn from the Ghent Section of the European Parliament Interpreting Corpus. It focuses on how simultaneous interpreters handle face-threatening acts (FTAs) performed by speakers they interpret, and, more in particular, on the question whether female and male interpreters present different patterns of behaviour when faced with speakers’ FTAs. In line with previous research on face work performed by interpreters, the results show that… 
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