The bilingual courtroom
Subtitle: court interpreters in the judicial process : with a new chapter
By: Susan Berk-Seligson.
Series: Language and legal discourse
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Court interpreting and translating -- United States.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [306]-316) and indexes.