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    The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process

    By Susan Berk-Seligson

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    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 important 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateApr 13, 2012
    ISBN9780226923277
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