Doing Justice to Court Interpreting (Benjamins Current Topics)

ISBN 10: 9027222568 / ISBN 13: 9789027222565

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Compan, 2010

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Title: Doing Justice to Court Interpreting (...

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Compan

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

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First published as a Special Issue of Interpreting (10:1, 2008) and complemented with two articles published in Interpreting (12:1, 2010), this volume provides a panoramic view of the complex and uniquely constrained practice of court interpreting. In an array of empirical papers, the nine authors explore the potential of court interpreters to make or break the proceedings, from the perspectives of the minority language speaker and of the other participants. The volume offers thoughtful overviews of the tensions and conflicts typically associated with the practice of court interpreting. It looks at the attitudes of judicial authorities towards interpreting, and of interpreters towards the concept of a code of ethics. With further themes such as the interplay of different groups of "linguists" at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and the language rights of indigenous communities, it opens novel perspectives on the study of interpreting at the interface between the letter of the law and its implementation.