Introduction -- Law and language -- The bilingual American courtroom: a legal raison d'etre -- Field work procedures -- The ethnography of the bilingual courtroom -- Interpreter-induced altenation in pragmatic blame avoidance mechanisms -- The intersection of testimony styles in interpreted judicial proceedings: pragmatics and the lengthening of testimony -- The impact of the interpreter on mock juror evaluations of witnesses -- An appellate view of interpreting issues -- Recent developments in the field of legal interpreting.
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