Interpreter-mediated police interviews / Ikuko Nakane, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Author/creator Nakane, Ikuko
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Descriptionix, 235 pages ; 23 cm
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Contents Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: Tripartite Police Interview Interaction 1. Police Interviews and Interpreter Mediation 2. Setting the Scene: The Police Interviews and the Interpreting3. Mediated Questioning and Balance of Power 4. Mediated Responses and Balance of Power5. Miscommunication and Repair6. Managing Silence7. Mediated Reality Construction: Conclusions.
Abstract "This book shows how the participation of interpreters as mediators changes the dynamics of police interviews, particularly with regard to power struggles and competing versions of events. Employing a range of approaches including conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics and legal narrative theory, Interpreter-mediated Police Interviews provides a detailed study of the impact of interpreter mediation on this area of the justice system. It reveals how turn-by-turn decisions of communication by all three participants, including the interpreter, affect the trajectory of the institutional discourse. By providing a better understanding of police interview discourse and exploring the practical implications of interpreter participation, this book contributes to the improvement of interpreter-mediated investigative interviews and will be of great interest to legal professionals as well as interpreters and their trainers"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 223-229) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014019768
ISBN9780230355149 (hardback)

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