Doing justice to court interpreting / edited by Miriam Shlesinger and Franz Pöchhacker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shlesinger, Miriam, 1947-2012.

Pöchhacker, Franz.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 26.

Benjamins current topics ; v. 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Court interpreting and translating.

Conduct of court proceedings.

Law--Translating.

Law.

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

viii, 246 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published as a Special Issue of Interpreting (10:1, 2008) and complemented with two articles published in Interpreting (12:1, 2010), this volume provides a panoramic view of the complex and uniquely constrained practice of court interpreting. In an array of empirical papers, the nine authors explore the potential of court interpreters to make or break the proceedings, from the perspectives of the minority language speaker and of the other participants. The volume offers thoughtful overviews of the tensions and conflicts typically associated with the practice of court interpreting. It looks at the attitudes of judicial authorities towards interpreting, and of interpreters towards the concept of a code of ethics. With further themes such as the interplay of different groups of "linguists" at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and the language rights of indigenous communities, it opens novel perspectives on the study of interpreting at the interface between the letter of the law and its implementation.

Contents:

Introduction : doing justice to court interpreting / Miriam Shlesinger and Franz Pöchhacker

Articles : interpreting at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal / Kayoko Takeda

Judicial systems in contact : access to justice and the right to interpreting/translating services among the Quichua of Ecuador / Susan Berk-Seligson

Missing stitches : an overview of judicial attitudes to interlingual interpreting in the criminal justice systems of Canada and Israel / Ruth Morris

Norms, ethics and roles among military court interpreters : the unique case of the Yehuda Court / Shira L. Lipkin

Interpreting reported speech in witnesses' evidence / Jieun Lee

The cooperative courtroom : a case study of interpreting gone wrong / Bodil Martinsen and Friedel Dubslaff

Judges' deviations from norm-based direct speech in court / Tina Paulsen Christensen

Interactional pragmatics and court interpreting : an analysis of face / Bente Jacobsen.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-89573-7

9786612895739

90-272-8762-7

OCLC:

688293481