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“I feel like a Referee”: Building Role Metaphors for Educational Interpreters of Spoken Languages in the U.S.

dc.contributor.advisorFernandez-Kelly, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorDelgado Santacruz, Melanie
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-31T14:08:33Z
dc.date.available2025-07-31T14:08:33Z
dc.date.issued2025-04-29
dc.description.abstractSpoken language interpreting in U.S. educational settings remains a largely understudied area compared to sign language interpreting and other specialized fields. As a result, interpreters who serve language-minoritized families often navigate complex, underdefined roles. Drawing from semi-structured interviews with certified interpreters, bilingual staff, and ad-hoc language brokers, this qualitative study develops metaphorical descriptions that offer a deeper understanding of the roles educational interpreters perform. These role metaphors reflect interpreters’ dynamic role and alignment shifting, their negotiation of professional identity and collaboration with other members of the educational team, and the relational and linguistic work they do to build meaning across language and culture. Findings provide valuable insight into the plurality of actors who serve as interpreters, offer a foundation for developing professional standards and strengthening institutional support for interpreters in education, and calls attention to the importance of improving the quality of language access services in education.
dc.identifier.urihttps://theses-dissertations.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp014x51hn456
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.title“I feel like a Referee”: Building Role Metaphors for Educational Interpreters of Spoken Languages in the U.S.
dc.typePrinceton University Senior Theses
dspace.entity.typePublication
dspace.workflow.startDateTime2025-04-30T00:03:59.743Z
pu.contributor.authorid920246181
pu.date.classyear2025
pu.departmentSociology

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