RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 The professional status of public service interpreters. A comparison with nurses T2 El estatus profesional del intérprete de SSPP. Una comparación con las enfermeras A1 Gentile, Paola K1 Public service interpreters K1 Nurses K1 Status K1 Sociology K1 Survey K1 Intérpretes de SSPP K1 Enfermeras K1 Estatus K1 Sociología K1 Encuesta K1 Filología K1 Philology AB This paper aims to investigate the relationship between the professional status of public service interpreters and that which sociologists (Etzioni, 1969; Abbott and Meerabeau, 1998) have attributed to semi-professionals such as nurses. Drawing on the sociological theories of professionalization (Albrecht et al., 2003) and on certain hypotheses suggested by interpreting scholars (Sela-Sheffy and Shlesinger, 2011), the concept of semi-profession will be defined and discussed. Subsequently, the three sociological features shared by the two professions – the lack of specialised training, increasing feminisation and the caring nature of their tasks – will be analysed from a sociological perspective. To test these assumptions, the results of a global questionnaire on the status of public service interpreters – which gathered 888 responses – will be illustrated and commented. The data showed a close relationship between the two professions, which appears to confirm the hypothesis that nurses and public service interpreters are still following the path towards full professionalization. PB FITISPos-UAH Research Group SN 2341-3778 YR 2016 FD 2016 LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/29642 UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/29642 LA eng DS MINDS@UW RD 29-mar-2024