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Publication details [#2213]
Dunningan, Timothy and Bruce T. Downing. 1995. Legal interpreting on trial: a case study. In Millán-Valera, Carmen. Translation and the business of normalization: the Galician case. In : 339–356. : 93–113.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Keywords
analysis | bilingualism | case study | court interpreting | equivalence=non-equivalence | historical approach=historiography=history | interculturality=transculturality=cross-culturality | interpreter=interpreter's role | legal discourse | problem-solving=problem | quality | semantics | strategy=procedure
Abstract
In this paper, the authors examine a trial in Minnesota in which the work of interpreters is itself the subject before the court. The background part of the study is divided into three sections: a review of relevant case history, a description of interpreting procedures that were in place at the time of the trial, and a summary of appellate court arguments about the quality of interpreting. The analysis section discusses a number of erroneous ideas emerging from the arguments about cross-linguistic and cross-cultural semantic equivalence. They conclude with a discussion of deficiencies in the system of courtroom interpreting and suggest some needed improvements.
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