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The Bilingual Courtroom. Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process, Second Edition.
Susan Berk-Seligson
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Description for The Bilingual Courtroom. Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process, Second Edition.
hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages, 1 halftone, 4 line drawings, 14 tables. BIC Classification: LNFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Susan Berk-Seligson's groundbreaking book draws 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 to present a systematic study of court interpreters that raises some alarming, vitally important concerns. Contrary to the assumption that interpreters do not affect the dynamics of court proceedings, Berk-Seligson shows that interpreters could potentially make the difference between a defendant being found guilty or not guilty of a crime. This second edition of the The Bilingual Courtroom includes a fully updated review of ... Read more
Susan Berk-Seligson's groundbreaking book draws 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 to present a systematic study of court interpreters that raises some alarming, vitally important concerns. Contrary to the assumption that interpreters do not affect the dynamics of court proceedings, Berk-Seligson shows that interpreters could potentially make the difference between a defendant being found guilty or not guilty of a crime. This second edition of the The Bilingual Courtroom includes a fully updated review of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226329338
SKU
V9780226329338
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About Susan Berk-Seligson
Susan Berk-Seligson is research professor of Spanish linguistics in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, an affiliate faculty member of the Center for Latin American Studies, Research, and an associate of the Latin American Public Opinion Project, all at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Coerced Confessions: The Discourse of Bilingual Police Interrogations.
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