The cooperative courtroom

Martinsen, Bodil; Dubslaff, Friedel

doi:10.1075/intp.12.1.02mar

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“…However, such forms of intervention may not be easily noticeable to monolingual recipients of interpreting services (Cheung 2012;Martinsen & Dubslaff 2010). Hence, it may be difficult to understand how users perceive the neutrality of interpreters in the case of any additions or omissions.…”

Section: Direct Speech In Court Interpretingmentioning

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The use of reported speech and the perceived neutrality of court interpreters

Cheung

2014

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A mock trial, with two-way consecutive interpreting between Cantonese and English, was used to test perceptions of a court interpreter’s neutrality when interpreting into Cantonese in reported rather than direct speech. Monolingual Cantonese speakers played the part of witnesses using the interpreter. Three groups were created: a control group (16 participants), receiving interpretation of all English utterances into Cantonese in direct speech; and two experimental groups (17 participants each). The experimental groups received interpretation with occasional switches to reported speech. These were introduced by third person pronouns (e.g., “he said”) for one group (the ‘pronoun group’), and by professional titles (e.g., “the judge said”) for the other group (the ‘title group’). Participants afterwards completed a questionnaire, assessing neutrality and alignment on a 5-point Likert scale. The title group not only perceived the interpreter to be aligned with the English speakers, but also gave a significantly different assessment of neutrality from the control group. The pronoun group perceived the interpreter to be aligned with them, but did not differ significantly from the control group in their perception of neutrality. Use of pronouns or professional titles in the reporting clauses thus affected the interpreter’s perceived neutrality differently.

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Section: Direct Speech In Court Interpretingmentioning

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The use of reported speech and the perceived neutrality of court interpreters

Cheung

2014

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On the distribution of responsibilities in treating critical issues in interpreter-mediated medical consultations: The case of “le spieghi(amo)”

Gavioli

2015

Journal of Pragmatics

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The collaborative and selective nature of interpreting in police interviews with stand-by interpreting

Monteoliva-García¹

2020

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Abstract This study explores interaction in two authentic interpreter-mediated police interviews with suspects. The analysis focuses on the interpreting regime used: stand-by interpreting. The interactional regime in the analysed interviews featured exolingual communication in English between a Spanish-speaking suspect with emerging competencies in English and English-speaking interviewers, with intermittent interpreter participation. Drawing on Conversation Analysis and interactional sociolinguistics, this study analyses how the interpreting regime was negotiated, how it was constructed over the course of the interviews, and the observable function of interpreting episodes. The analysis revealed a markedly collaborative nature of stand-by interpreting, differences in the distribution of interactional power over interpreting episodes among the three participants depending on their activity role and the interview phase, and the multimodal nature of turn-management. Interpreting was used selectively as a resource to either repair or prevent miscommunication, aligning with the way the interpreting regime was set up. Rather than advocating for or against the stand-by mode of interpreting, this paper describes its features in the police interview and highlights both its potential and its risks for communication in interpreter-mediated police interviews as a discourse genre.

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The cooperative courtroom

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

The use of reported speech and the perceived neutrality of court interpreters

The use of reported speech and the perceived neutrality of court interpreters

On the distribution of responsibilities in treating critical issues in interpreter-mediated medical consultations: The case of “le spieghi(amo)”

The collaborative and selective nature of interpreting in police interviews with stand-by interpreting

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