Embedding Police Interviews in the Prosecution Case in the Shipman Trial

Johnson, Alison

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199746842.003.0007

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“…These include, for example, studies where lawyers draw on excerpts from police interviews with defendants, or from earlier witness (cross-)examination, to strategically present evidence in a desired light (e.g. Eades, 2012;Johnson, 2013). They demonstrate how such strategies can mask the author's or speaker's own role in discourse creation: drawing on the evidence of others is a legitimate discursive practice in such settings.…”

Section: Methodology and Datamentioning

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Deficiencies and loopholes: Clashing discourses, problems and solutions in Australian migration advice regulation

Smith‐Khan

2021

Discourse & Society

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In Australia, access to high-quality migration advice can often be crucial to obtaining a visa, and migration advisors have attracted ongoing scrutiny from policymakers, leading to successive inquiries and reviews. Such inquiries and the recommendations they produce are used to justify policy design and reform that can have significant impacts on a range of stakeholders, including of course, migration advisors and their clients. This article explores one such recent inquiry, completed in 2018. It adopts a critical discourse analysis to examine the way the inquiry’s official report presents migration advisors, and how it frames the inquiry process itself. Finding that the report presents its recommendations as being based on evidence created by external stakeholder submissions, the examination goes on to explore to what extent this is actually the case. Through an examination of the ‘textual travels’ submissions undergo when incorporated in the report, the article finds that these texts are either transformed to support dominant discourses, or simply excluded. The article concludes that decision-making is inaccurately presented as a participatory, evidence-based process, thus legitimising particular policy decisions, and unfairly continuing to present migration advisors as problems requiring fixing.

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Section: Methodology and Datamentioning

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Deficiencies and loopholes: Clashing discourses, problems and solutions in Australian migration advice regulation

Smith‐Khan

2021

Discourse & Society

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“…Rock (2013) examines a police interview as text production, and demonstrates how recontextualization and intertextuality operate in the interview, as a witness's talk is transformed into evidence. Johnson (2013) analyses how police interview texts travel from the interview room to the audio-recording to the court and how, through re-enactment, objectification in transcribed bundles of documents, shared reading between the judge and jury, and narration in monologue, they are institutionally evaluated and transformed. They travel across time and place and are ventriloquized, summarized in monologue, read, and enacted as they are embedded in the prosecution case, and taken up by the judge in his or her summing up.…”

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Translation and Translanguaging in (Post)multilingual Societies

Lee¹

2022

The Cambridge Handbook of Translation

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This is a summary of the research outcomes elaborated in detail in the following report, which was conducted as Phase Four of the Birmingham case study of AHRC-funded Translating Cultures project, 'Translation and Translanguaging: Investigating Linguistic and Cultural Transformations in Superdiverse Wards in Four UK Cities'. Linguistic ethnographic research was conducted with an Advice and Advocacy worker in the Chinese Community Centre, Birmingham, in 2016. In the process of providing advice and advocacy services to people with a wide range of needs and requests for support, translation is a crucial dimension of exchange. Advice and advocacy in the Chinese Community Centre takes place in a translation zone, where biographies, histories, beliefs, values, and future trajectories of participants come into contact, and shape the interaction. The translation zone is a space which offers hope of being heard, hope that there will be a response from those in authority. The translator (mediator, advisor, advocate) offers the possibility that the individual will be heard by the powerful. The translator is frequently confronted with the necessity to make decisions and choices in translation. In some cases the translator makes ethical and ideological choices based on social justice for the client. Of secondary importance are questions of adherence to the letter of the law, or loyalty to the neutrality of the translation process. Translation in practice extends far beyond the transfer of meanings from one language to another. It includes translation of the complexity of government systems, with their unfamiliar terms and acronyms, and web of rules and regulations. A feature of translation is the co-construction, re-telling, and re-formulating of narrative. Every re-telling of a story is a translation. Narratives are recontextualised as they are retold, through the rearrangement of their structure, the substitution of some words, the addition of new elements, and the deletion of others. Discourse may be translated from one semiotic domain to another, 'resemiotized' as it shifts from context to context, from practice to practice. Often narratives told in one language, and in one mode, are resemiotized in another language, and in another mode. In the health and welfare benefits systems discourse may gain legitimacy as it is resemiotized, gaining status as it changes from a spoken to a written artefact. As artefacts gain symbolic and economic capital they may become sites of contestation and tension.

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“…Rock (2013) examines a police interview, and demonstrates how recontextualization operates as a witness's talk is transformed into evidence. Johnson (2013) analyses how police interview texts travel from the interview room to the audio-recording to the court, and how the interview texts are institutionally evaluated and transformed. Harding and Ralarala (2017) analyse transcripts of police interviews conducted in isiXhosa in South Africa, and notes the omission or de-selection of key narrative elements and story aspects.…”

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Recontextualisation and advocacy in the translation zone

Blackledge

Creese

2020

Text &Amp; Talk

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This paper reports an element of a team linguistic ethnography which investigated the ways people communicate with each other in the changing, dynamic environments of superdiverse cities in the UK. The particular example examined here is that of a ‘translation zone’ between an advice worker and her Chinese clients in a community centre with a remit to support Chinese people in the city. In the interaction the advice worker, herself a migrant from China, translates relevant aspects of the complex, bureaucratic welfare benefits system, deploying interlingual, intralingual, and intersemiotic translation. More than this, however, the advice worker engages in recontextualisation, co-constructing and re-shaping the client’s narrative so that it meets the criteria of the government welfare benefits office. Recontextualisation is a consistent feature of the discourse practice of the advice worker as she seeks to support her clients. We propose that it may well be a salient feature of interactional encounters as people seek help and advocacy to negotiate complex bureaucratic systems.

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Embedding Police Interviews in the Prosecution Case in the Shipman Trial

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Deficiencies and loopholes: Clashing discourses, problems and solutions in Australian migration advice regulation

Deficiencies and loopholes: Clashing discourses, problems and solutions in Australian migration advice regulation

Translation and Translanguaging in (Post)multilingual Societies

Recontextualisation and advocacy in the translation zone

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