Building bridges: the bilingual language work of migrant construction workers

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Table 1. Below shows the pseudonym given to the interview participant, their sex, position hired for when the experiences discussed occurred, whether they were individual participants or part of a set of interviews on a project that was visited, the languages the participants have in their repertoire, and if they acted as an interpreter onsite and in what capacity.

Interview participant	Male/Female	Job position	Construction project?	Languages in repertoire	Interpreter?
Aleksander	M	Contracts manager	1	Bulgarian, English	Untrained informal
Daniel	M	Site supervisor	1	Romanian, English	Untrained informal
Lei	M	Project manager	1	Chinese, English	No
Matei	M	Supervisor	1	Romanian, English	Untrained informal
Andrei	M	Site supervisor	1	Romanian, English	Untrained informal
Stefan	M	Assistant site manager	2	Romanian, English	Untrained informal
Marius	M	Site manager	2	Romanian, English	Untrained informal
Ivan	M	Supervisor	2	Bulgarian, English	Untrained informal
Jack	M	Project manager	2	English	No
Sean	M	Assistant site manager	2	English	No
Paul	M	Site Manager	N/A	Romanian, English	Untrained informal
David	M	Project Manager	N/A	English	No
Hannah	F	Senior Site Manager	N/A	English	No
Fernando	M	Laborer > office assistant	N/A	Spanish, English	Trained informal
Lanfen	F	Interpreter	N/A	Chinese, English	Untrained professional
Amir	M	Architect	N/A	Arabic, French, English	Trained professional
Elena	F	Superintendent	N/A	English, Spanish, Catalan	Trained professional
Amal	F	Interpreter	N/A	Arabic, French, English	Trained professional
Greg	M	Interpreter	N/A	Japanese, English	Trained professional
Karl	M	Interpreter	N/A	German, English, French	Trained professional
Farah	F	Interpreter	N/A	Arabic, English	Trained professional
Olga	F	Interpreter/consultant	N/A	Russian, Kazakh, English	Trained professional
Ulla	F	Interpreter	N/A	Finnish, English	Untrained professional
Demitri	M	Project manager	N/A	Greek, English	Untrained informal
Johnathan	M	Interpreter	N/A	German, English	Untrained professional
João	M	Laborer > supervisor	N/A	Portuguese, English, Italian, French	Untrained informal
Magda	F	Project secretary	N/A	English, Portuguese	Untrained professional
Ahmet	M	Interpreter	N/A	Turkish, English	Professional
Ali	M	Interpreter	N/A	Kazakh, Russian, English	Trained professional
Sofia	F	University professor	N/A	Romanian, English	No
Michail	M	Interpreter	N/A	Russian, English	Trained professional
Zane	M	Interpreter	N/A	Swahili, English	Untrained professional
Jen	F	Safety manager	N/A	English	No
Anna	F	Interpreter	N/A	Russian, English	Trained professional
Sara	F	Interpreter	N/A	Spanish, English	Trained professional
Toby	M	Innovations manager	N/A	English	No
Jake	M	Works supervisor	3	English	No
Constantin	M	Construction manager	3	Romanian, English	Untrained informal