Marie Jacobs

Supervisor

Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

Marie Jacobs is a post-doctoral researcher in the field of sociolinguistics. Next to a dedicated CESSMIR member, she is also part of the MULTIPLES Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in Society. Her doctoral dissertation presented a linguistic ethnography of the role of language in legal assistance to asylum seekers. She has published in international journals such as Language in Society, Journal of Pragmatics and Multilingua. Her research interests concern the role of language in settings of asylum and migration, the discursive dynamics of institutional encounters and the methodological intricacies of conducting qualitative research in superdiverse contexts.

Research themes:

Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality || Communication, media and discourse || Identity || Migration law, migrants’ rights and legal Identity