Publications

Publication details [#27523]

Cooke, Michael. 1995. Interpreting in a cross-cultural cross-examination: An Aboriginal study. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (113) : 99–111.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

aboriginal | courtroom conversation | crosscultural communication | interpreting

Language as a subject

English | Languages, Australian aboriginal

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper deals with translation, interpretation and struggle over linguistic power in crosscultural Anglo-Australian/Aboriginal courtroom cross-examination, in casu the investigation into the death of a mentally ill aboriginal bushman, shot by the police in 1990.