Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Tripartite Police Interview Interaction -- 1. Police Interviews and Interpreter Mediation -- 2. Setting the Scene: The Police Interviews and the Interpreting -- 3. Mediated Questioning and Balance of Power -- 4. Mediated Responses and Balance of Power -- 5. Miscommunication and Repair -- 6. Managing Silence -- 7. Mediated Reality Construction: Conclusions.
Summary:
"This book shows how the participation of interpreters as mediators changes the dynamics of police interviews, particularly with regard to power struggles and competing versions of events. Employing a range of approaches including conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics and legal narrative theory, Interpreter-mediated Police Interviews provides a detailed study of the impact of interpreter mediation on this area of the justice system. It reveals how turn-by-turn decisions of communication by all three participants, including the interpreter, affect the trajectory of the institutional discourse. By providing a better understanding of police interview discourse and exploring the practical implications of interpreter participation, this book contributes to the improvement of interpreter-mediated investigative interviews and will be of great interest to legal professionals as well as interpreters and their trainers"-- Provided by publisher.
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