Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreting
Context, Challenges, and Strategies
1st Edition
Published on 3. September 2014
147 pages
978-1-4822-4256-0 (ISBN)
Description
Police interviews with suspects and witnesses provide some of the most significant evidence in criminal investigations. Frequently challenging, they require special training and skills. This interaction process is further complicated when the suspect or witness does not speak the same language as the interviewer. A professional reference that can b
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Interpreters, police officers and trainees, investigative interviewers who work in multilingual societies, private security officers, linguists and bilingual specialist staff in foreign affairs, security agencies, intelligent agencies, army language service departments, insurance claim investigators, and psychologists in clinical trauma treatment.
Illustrations
5 s/w Abbildungen
5 b/w images
ISBN-13
978-1-4822-4256-0 (9781482242560)
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Context, Challenges, and Strategies
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Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreting
Context, Challenges, and Strategies
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Persons
Sedat Mulayin is the current discipline head of translating and interpreting at RMIT University in Australia. Miranda Lai is currently a lecturer and trainer in translating and interpreting at RMIT University in Australia. Caroline Norma, Ph.D, is a lecturer in the Master of Translation Studies degree at RMIT University of Melbourne, Australia.
Content
The Interpreting Profession. What Is Interpreting? The Interpreting Process. Skills Required for Interpreting. Modes of Interpreting. The Professional Role of Interpreters in Legal Settings. Investigative Interviewing. The Significance of Investigative Interviews. Main Features of Police Discourse. Two Major Police Interview Models. Overview of Interpreting Challenges and Interpreter Conduct Issues. Overview of Interpreter Intervention. The Role of Professional Interpreters. Conduct Issues of Professional Interpreters. Linguistic Transfer Issues in Police. Interpreting and Recommended Strategies. Style of Interpreting: Free versus Literal. The Law and Words. The Power of Words. Handling Interviewer's Rapport-Building Strategies. Misinterpreting Lexical Items/Collocations. Misinterpreting Grammatical Structures/Units. Personality and Linguistic Skills: Author Profiling. Managing Speech Styles of Speakers. Other Linguistic Related and Nonlinguistic Issues in Police. Interpreting and Recommended Strategies. Managing Turn-Taking. Managing Overlapping Turns in Police Interviews. Managing Deliberate Attempts to Undermine Communication. Dealing With Nonfluency and Paralinguistic Features. Maintaining "Hedges". Strengthening/Clarifying Answers. Hyperformality. Managing Multicomponent Questions and Answers: "Chunking" Issues. Managing Clarification. Conclusion. References. Index.
