Translation and inclusion. Practices of administrative audience differentiation (E03 (ehem.B03))

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 442261292

The project examines how state institutions segment their audience through inter- and intralingual translation to ensure semiotic accessibility. It observes which people are ascribed the need for translation, in which cultural layers of meaning this occurs and which social fields participate in this process. The project’s investigations are guided by the key question of the extent to which translation contributes to the levelling of cultural inequalities and/or to the creation of difference by attributing foreignness and deviance.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1482: Studies in Human Differentiation
• Applicant Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Dilek Dizdar