7. Interpreting in police settings in Spain: Service providers' and interpreters' perspectives

Herráez, Juan Miguel Ortega; Rubio, Ana Isabel Foulquié

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“…Primarily, the terms interpreting and interpreters are utilised [ 14 ; 15 ; 18 ; 39 ]. However, the compound term interpreter/translator [ 18 ] is utilised as well.…”

Section: Intercept Interpretation: the Academic Perspectivementioning

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“…Primarily, the terms interpreting and interpreters are utilised [ 14 ; 15 ; 18 ; 39 ]. However, the compound term interpreter/translator [ 18 ] is utilised as well. Similarly, in German, the terms Dolmetscherin/Dolmetscher (interpreter) and Übersetzerin/Übersetzer (translator) are both utilised [ 15 ].…”

Section: Intercept Interpretation: the Academic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The purpose of intercepting communications—which is defined as the legal wiretapping of landline or mobile telephone communications and bugging of cars, apartments, or any other location—is generally stated to be the collection of information and evidence during police investigations [ 3 ; 9 ; 14 ; 18 ; 36 ; 39 ]; however, the concrete contributions of intercept interpreters is less clearly identified.…”

Section: Intercept Interpretation: the Academic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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Interpreting Intercepted Communication: A Sui Generis Translational Activity

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Havelka

2021

Int J Semiot Law

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Legal wiretapping has gained importance in law enforcement along with the development of information and communication technology. Understanding the language of intercepted persons is essential for the success of a police investigation. Hence, intercept interpreters, as we suggest calling them in this article, are hired. Little is known about this specific work at the interface between language and law. With this article, we desire to contribute to closing this gap by focussing particularly on the translational activity. Our study identifies a fragmented field of research due to the difficulty in accessing workers in this specific field who interpret in a highly confidential phase of criminal investigations. The findings, which are drawn from scarce studies and our empirical data derived from an online questionnaire for a pilot study in Switzerland, demonstrate the wide range of the performed activity intercept interpreting. This article is the first to present translational activity from the perspective of intercept interpreters. The activity differs in many ways from interpretation in court hearings or police interviews. Hence, we suggest categorising interlingual intercept interpretation as a translational activity sui generis and—since previous research has not done justice to the ethical and deontological questions that intercept interpretation raises—advocate for further transdisciplinary research in this field of translation.

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“…Primarily, the terms interpreting and interpreters are utilised [ 14 ; 15 ; 18 ; 39 ]. However, the compound term interpreter/translator [ 18 ] is utilised as well.…”

Section: Intercept Interpretation: the Academic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Intercept Interpretation: the Academic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Intercept Interpretation: the Academic Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

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Interpreting Intercepted Communication: A Sui Generis Translational Activity

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Havelka

2021

Int J Semiot Law

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“…Judging from the experience of some researchers, the participant recruitment phase is a delicate stage with a number of major obstacles. Some authors have mentioned the low-level of participation (Monzó-Nebot, 2005), as well as difficulties accessing the target population (Ortega Herráez and Foulquié Rubio, 2008). Since the 1980s, researchers have generally alluded to a general distance between the professional and scholary communities which has yet to be resolved (Ladmiral, 1979;Robinson, 1991;Kelly, 2000;Campos Plaza and Ortega Arjonilla, 2005;Monzó-Nebot, 2005;Lavault, 2006;Angelelli, 2008).…”

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“…There is no data, however, on the researcher-participant relationship or participant involvement in the research. Ortega Herráez and Foulquié Rubio (2008), for example, explain that they used a chain or snowball sampling technique in order to identify interpreters working for the police in Spain, giving them two questionnaires to complete. 1 In an ethnographic study focusing on public service interpreting for the Chinese community in Catalonia, Vargas-Urpi (2012) sought the cooperation of non-professional and professional public service translators and interpreters.…”

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Finding Hidden Populations in The Field of Translating and Interpreting: A Methodological Model for Improving Access to Non-Professional Translators and Interpreters Working in Public Service Settings

Galiano

2020

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Translation and interpreting in public services is an activity often performed by practitioners with no background training in translation and interpreting. The challenges in accessing this population of research participants in a previous study (Lomeña Galiano, 2018) led us to label them a hidden population. If these groups mostly known as “non-professionals” remain in the shadows, because of social dynamics, there is a risk that the collection and production of data are biased due to the lack of representativeness of the samples, with respect to a part of the population that is in charge of a large number of translation and interpretation assignments, especially in public service settings. There is, however, a methodological gap and a lack of guidance for those researching in the area as to how to negotiate the framework for the participation “non-professional” translators and interpreters in the most efficient way. To address that issue, this paper presents some tools used in social and human sciences to improve relationships with hidden populations. Specifically, this article focuses on the interaction between researcher and participants and the relevance of the notions of reflexivity and rapport (tuning) in this interaction. The aim of this study is to identify key points in the methodology to approach the population in participatory studies in order to facilitate access and the consequent participation of hidden populations in studies on translation and interpretation in public services.Resumen: La traducción e interpretación en los servicios públicos es una actividad desempeñada, con frecuencia, por personas sin estudios en traducción. La dificultad de acceder a dichas personas en un estudio anterior (Lomeña Galiano, 2018) nos llevó a asignarles la categoría de población oculta. El riesgo de que estos grupos conocidos especialmente como “no profesionales” permanezcan en la sombra debido a las dinámicas sociales es que se produzcan sesgos en la recogida y producción de datos debido a la no representatividad de las muestras respecto de una parte de la población que se encarga de gran cantidad de los encargos de traducción e interpretación, especialmente en los servicios públicos. Se constata, no obstante, un vacío metodológico que oriente a quienes investigan en el área para negociar el marco de la participación de traductores e interpretes “nativos” o “no profesionales” del modo más eficiente. Por ello, este artículo expone algunas herramientas empleadas en ciencias sociales y humanas para mejorar la relación con grupos de población oculta. En concreto, la propuesta se centra en la interacción entre el investigador y los participantes y la relevancia que adquieren en esa interacción las nociones de reflexividad y de rapport (sintonía). Se pretende identificar puntos clave en la metodología de aproximación a la población en estudios participativos para facilitar el acceso y la consiguiente participación de poblaciones ocultas en estudios de sobre la traducción e interpretación en servicios públicos.

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Researching Professional Translator/Interpreter Experiences and Roles

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2020

Translator and Interpreter Education Research

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7. Interpreting in police settings in Spain: Service providers' and interpreters' perspectives

Cited by 12 publications

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Interpreting Intercepted Communication: A Sui Generis Translational Activity

Interpreting Intercepted Communication: A Sui Generis Translational Activity

Finding Hidden Populations in The Field of Translating and Interpreting: A Methodological Model for Improving Access to Non-Professional Translators and Interpreters Working in Public Service Settings

Researching Professional Translator/Interpreter Experiences and Roles

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