The Bilingual Courtroom
By Susan Berk-Seligson. 2002
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Drawing on more than one hundred hours of taped recordings of Spanish/English court proceedings in federal, state, and municipal courts-along with extensive psycholinguistic research using translated testimony and mock jurors-Susan Berk-Seligson's seminal book presents a systematic study of court interpreters, and raises some alarming, vitally important concerns: contrary to the assumption that interpreters do not affect the contents of court proceedings, they could potentially make the difference between a defendant being found guilty or innocent of a crime.
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- How faithfully do court interpreters render the style of non-English speaking witnesses' testimonies? A data-based study of Spanish—English bilingual proceedings (2002, methodology): “A number of authors (Benmaman, 1992; Berk-Seligson, 1990; De Jongh, 1991, 1992; Dueñas Gonzalez et al., 1991; Hale, 1997c; Laster, 1990; Laster and Taylor, 1994; O’Toole, 1993) agree that accuracy of interpretation in the courtroom implies much more than simply relaying the content of the utterance.”