Police interviews : communication challenges and solutions / Edited by Luna Filipović, University of East Anglia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Filipović, Luna, editor.

Series:

Benjamins current topics, 1874-0081 ; Volume 118

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interviewing in law enforcement.

Police questioning.

Law enforcement--Language.

Law enforcement.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Communication challenges and solutions

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]

Summary:

This collection breaks new ground in police communication research. It involves the first instance of the same dataset being analysed from different theoretical and methodological perspectives as well as providing original and detailed insights into both monolingual and bilingual UK police interviews and US police interrogations of suspects. The topics include the role of metacommunication and its appropriate vs. inappropriate use in evidence elicitation, assessment of mitigation vs. aggravation strategies in questioning, identification of right vs. wrong empathy and the importance of getting it right, effects on complexity in police speak on quantity and quality of information obtained, and the multiple challenges that affect interpreter-mediated exchanges in this highly sensitive communicative context. All levels of linguistic meaning are covered, words, constructions, sentences, discourse, and contextualised within psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic knowledge about inferencing, emotion, and social interaction. This holistic approach helps us explain where, when and why communicative conflicts arise in this sensitive context and propose concrete practical solutions to resolve them. This volume will be useful and relevant to both academics, students and researchers, and to professionals in the domains of language and the law. Originally published as special issue of Pragmatics and Society 10:1 (2019).

Contents:

Intro

Police Interviews

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Police interviews. Communication challenges and solutions

Avenues for further research in this area

References

Evidence-gathering in police interviews. Communication problems and possible solutions

1.Introduction

2.Relevant research on police interviews, in brief

3.Data and methodology

4.Data analysis: Complex and negative questions

4.1Complex questions

4.2Negative questions

5.Uncooperativeness

6.Cross-linguistic difficulties: Interpreting language differences

7.Conclusions and future directions

Acknowledgements

"You keep telling us different things, what do we believe?" Meta-communication and meta-representation in police interviews

1.Introduction: Metacommunication and metarepresentation in interviews of suspects

2.The importance of being quoted: Cautions, quotations and metacommunicative argument loops

3.The importance of being earnestly allowed to reinterpret one's own quotes

4.Conclusions

"Would it be fair to say that you actively sought out material?" Mitigation and aggravation in police investigative interviews

2.Police interviews: Process and questioning

3.Questioning from a linguistic perspective

3.1Speech Acts: Mitigation and aggravation

3.2Classification and uses of mitigation

4.Data and analytical approach

5.Analysis of results

5.1Mitigation

5.2Aggravation

6.Discussion: Mitigation and aggravation strategies in investigative interviews

7.Conclusion

Translating accurately or sounding natural? The interpreters' challenges due to semantic typology and the interpreting process

2.Forensic linguistics and interpreting

2.1Interpreting skills.

2.2Applied language typology

3.Methodology

4.Results: Discrepancies

4.1Agentivity

4.2Information loss

4.3Loss of intensity

4.4Manner of motion

4.5Modal verbs

4.6Euphemisms

4.7Grammar errors

4.8Addition of intensity

4.9Addition of information

4.10Emotions

4.11Other discrepancies

5.Discussion and conclusions

Rapport-building in suspects' police interviews. The role of empathy and face

2.Rapport, empathy and face

3.Rapport, empathy and face in ISs

4.Insights from interview data

5.Insights from police interview training

5.1Expressing understanding of other's feelings

5.2Positive regard and other face-enhancing expressions

5.3Negative regard and other face-threatening expressions

6.Concluding discussion

Appendix 1.Guidelines for the conduct of police interviews with suspects

PEACE SUSPECT INTERVIEW STRUCTURE

Appendix 2.The global rapport management memory aid

Appendix 3.Key to transcription

Striving for impartiality. Conflicts of role, trust and emotion in interpreter-assisted police interviews

1.1Conflict of role

1.2Conflict of trust

1.3Conflict of emotion

1.4Research questions

2.Method

2.1Participants

2.2Research materials

3.Data analysis: Quantitative

3.1Briefing

3.2Errors

3.3Emotions experienced

3.4Response to emotion

3.5Debriefing

4.Data analysis: Qualitative

4.1Well-being

4.2Language preparation

4.3Lack of briefing

4.4Maintaining control of the interview

5.Discussion

5.1Conflict of role: How proper briefing may help

5.2Conflict of trust: The issues of perceived competence and control

5.3Conflict of emotion: Dealing with emotions during and after IAPIs

5.4Limitations of the study

6.Conclusion.

References

Appendix

A.Demographics

B.Interpreter-assisted Interviews

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Police interviews

OCLC:

1252735938