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The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process (Language and Legal Discourse)
The Bilingual Courtroom Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process - Language and Legal Discourse Author:Susan Berk-Seligson 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 i... more »mportant 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.« less