The article briefly presents research starting points for critical discourse analysis (CDA) and places them in the context of community interpreting. The authors discuss how to use CDA both for observing power relations between communicative partners and for analysing communication itself. The active role of the researcher is thus exposed, where they intentionally take a non-neutral position in order to change the current state of affairs. The second part of the article uses examples of interpreted interviews in international protection procedures to illustrate discourse elements that uncover social inequality, imbalances and domination.
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