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.
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Drawing on more than one hundred hours of taped recordings of Spanish and 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.
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Drawing on more than one hundred hours of taped recordings of Spanish and 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.
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Susan Berk-Seligson is an associate professor of Hispanic linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh.
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This is an excellent book, has solid research and is very professional. Several times Susan Berk-Seligson (the author) is quoted in other authoritative works on the subject. However, my only critique with this work is how many mistakes there were in the Spanish grammar and renderings in English. For such a professional and high level work, the author, now in at least her second if not third edition still has glaring errors of the simplist type, somewhat embarassing to those of us who truly are bilingual. It's just kind of ironic how the whole point of the book is how important it is to pay attention to minor and many times disregarded elements of speech like register, hedges, false starts, tone and additions in order to faithfully interpret into the Target Language. Yet Susan Berk-Seligson or her editing team has not taken into consideration, in at least two editions, how weak her argument becomes and how much credibility she loses when one considers how blatent and glaring her own mistakes are in several translations in her book. Overall, however, it is a must read for anyone thinking of going into court interpretation.
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Since the late 1960s, with America's awakening sensitivity to the social needs and rights of linguistic minorities, there has been a veritable explosion in the use of foreign language interpreting in American courtrooms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
foreign language testimony, powerless testimony style, hyperformal style, spoken legal language, interpreted judicial proceedings, court interpreter training programs, court interpreters examination, polite address term, addressing attorney, addressing interpreter, court interpreters act, court interpreting services, presiding judicial officer, legal translators, polite interpretation, polite address forms, inaccurate interpreting, interpreter interruptions, interrogating attorney, consultative version, pragmatic alterations, bilingual courtroom, consecutive interpreting, addressing witness, mock jurors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Estados Unidos, Court Interpreters Act, New York, New Jersey, Code Ann, Forensic Linguistics, Latin America, American English, New Mexico, New Zealand, Francisco Araya Zúñiga, Haitian Creole, Meanb Std, Puerto Rico, Administrative Office of the Courts, Cuando Uds, European Court of Justice, Lobo Arce, Los Angeles, Miguel Rios, United Nations, University of Arizona, American Sign Language, Appendix Six New!
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Since the late 1960s, with America's awakening sensitivity to the social needs and rights of linguistic minorities, there has been a veritable explosion in the use of foreign language interpreting in American courtrooms. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
foreign language testimony, powerless testimony style, hyperformal style, spoken legal language, interpreted judicial proceedings, court interpreter training programs, court interpreters examination, polite address term, addressing attorney, addressing interpreter, court interpreters act, court interpreting services, presiding judicial officer, legal translators, polite interpretation, polite address forms, inaccurate interpreting, interpreter interruptions, interrogating attorney, consultative version, pragmatic alterations, bilingual courtroom, consecutive interpreting, addressing witness, mock jurors Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Estados Unidos, Court Interpreters Act, New York, New Jersey, Code Ann, Forensic Linguistics, Latin America, American English, New Mexico, New Zealand, Francisco Araya Zúñiga, Haitian Creole, Meanb Std, Puerto Rico, Administrative Office of the Courts, Cuando Uds, European Court of Justice, Lobo Arce, Los Angeles, Miguel Rios, United Nations, University of Arizona, American Sign Language, Appendix Six New!
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