Linguistic-Cultural Mediation in Asylum and Refugee Settings and Its Emotional Impact on Arabic-Spanish Interpreters.

ABSTRACT: Emotional factors in linguistic-cultural mediation have attracted the attention of prior literature for a number of decades, both regarding the cognitive processes involved in language interpreting and the impact of stress and emotion on the performance of interpreters. However, research has not yet been replicated in the Arabic-Spanish pair, despite it being one of the combinations most requested by public services in Spain and Europe.

Methodology

An exploratory study conducted by an anonymous online 17-item survey was carried out in order to discover the perception of Arabic-Spanish interpreters in asylum and refugee settings about the emotional impact of their job. Out of 30 contacted, 23 active interpreters completed the survey.

Results

The answers showed that all of the

SUBMITTER: Mahyub-Rayaa B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8552076 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature