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Doing interpreting within interaction: The interactive accomplishment of a “Henna Gaijin” or “Strange Foreigner”

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The aims of this paper are: (1) to criticize the traditional conception of understanding in sociology; (2) to show how doing interpreting is achieved within the activity the participant is currently involved in; (3) to show how an individual's special characteristics, e.g., a "strange foreigner," are constructed and used within the actual trajectory of interaction; and (4) to demonstrate how the participants in the so-called intercultural communication 'do cultural differences' within interaction.

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  1. Department of Sociology, Meiji Gakuin University, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8636, Japan

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Nishizaka, A. Doing interpreting within interaction: The interactive accomplishment of a “Henna Gaijin” or “Strange Foreigner”. Human Studies 22, 235–251 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005492518477

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