Interpreter-mediated Police Interviews

A Discourse-Pragmatic Approach

I. Nakane (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

235 Seiten

2014 | 1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-34689-9 (ISBN)

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This book shows how participation of interpreters as mediators changes the dynamics of police interviews, particularly with regard to power struggles and competing versions of events. The analysis of interaction offers insights into language in the legal process.

Ikuko Nakane is Senior Lecturer at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research areas include language and law, intercultural communication and Japanese sociolinguistics. She is the author of Silence in Intercultural Communication and a number of articles in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics journals.

Introduction: Tripartite Police Interview Interaction 1. Police Interviews and Interpreter Mediation 2. Setting the Scene: The Police Interviews and the Interpreting 3. Mediated Questioning and Balance of Power 4. Mediated Responses and Balance of Power 5. Miscommunication and Repair 6. Managing Silence 7. Mediated Reality Construction: Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	IX, 235 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
Schlagworte	Intercultural communication • Interpreter mediated discourse • Legal discourse • Legal interpreting • Police interviews
ISBN-10	1-349-34689-6 / 1349346896
ISBN-13	978-1-349-34689-9 / 9781349346899
Zustand	Neuware