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Susan Berk-Seligson

The Bilingual Courtroom

Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process

With a new Chapter
322 pages,  6 x 9  © 1990, 2002

Paper $25.00

ISBN: 9780226043784   Published September 2002

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction

2 Law and Language

3 The Bilingual American Courtroom: A Legal
Raison d'Etre

4 Fieldwork Procedures

5 The Ethnography of Bilingual Courtroom

6 Interpreter-Induced Alternation in Pragmatic Blame
Avoidance Mechanisms

7 The Intersection of Testimony Styles in Interpreted
Judicial Proceedings: Pragmatics and the
Lengthening of Testimony

8 The Impact of the Interpreter on Mock Juror
Evaluations of Witnesses

9 An Appellate View of Interpreting Issues

10 Recent Developments in the Field of Legal Interpreting

Notes
References
Name Index
Subject Index
Subjects



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