The Bilingual Courtroom

Klappentext Drawing on more than one hundred hours of taped recordings of Spanish/English court proceedings in federal, state, and municipal courts--along with extensive psycholinguistic research using translated testimony and mock jurors--Susan Berk-Seligson's seminal book presents a systematic study of court interpreters, and raises some alarming, vitally important concerns: contrary to the assumption that interpreters do not affect the contents of court proceedings, they could potentially make the difference between a defendant being found guilty or innocent of a crime. Zusammenfassung Drawing on more than 100 hours of taped recordings of Spanish/English court proceedings in federal, state and municipal courts this volume presents a systematic study of court interpreters and raises some alarming concerns.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Berk-Seligson
• Assisted by: University Of Chicago Press (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.03.2003
• EAN: 9780226043784
• ISBN: 978-0-226-04378-4
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Language & Legal Discourse; Language & Legal Discourse S.; Language and Legal Discourse
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs