Research Catalog

Title

The bilingual courtroom : court interpreters in the judicial process : with a new chapter / Susan Berk-Seligson.

Author

Berk-Seligson, Susan

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002.

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Details

Description

xi, 323 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Drawing on more than one hundred hours of taped recordings of Spanish ad English court proceedings - along with extensive psycholinguistic research using translated testimony and mock jurors - Susan Berk-Seligson's seminal book presents a systematic study of court interpreting issues. Now with a new chapter, it continues to raise some alarming concerns around a crucial point: contrary to the assumption that interpreters do not affect the outcomes of court proceedings, they potentially can make the difference between a defendant being found guilty or innocent of a crime"--Unedited summary from book cover.

Series Statement

Language and legal discourse

Uniform Title

Language and legal discourse

Subject

Court interpreting and translating > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-314) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Law and language -- The bilingual American courtroom: a legal raison d'Etre -- Field work procedures -- The ethnography of the bilingual courtroom -- Interpreter-induced altenation in pragmatic blame avoidance mechanisms -- The intersection of testimony styles in interpreted judicial proceedings: progmatics and the lengthening of testimony -- The impact of the interpreter on Mock juror evaluations of witnesses -- An appellate view of interpreting issues -- Recent developments in the field of legal interpreting.

ISBN

0226043789 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002027142

OCLC

50143179

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library