LINGUIST List 26.2672

Fri May 29 2015

Books: Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Elias-Bursac

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Date: 29-May-2015
From: Stephanie Morgan <Stephanie.Morganpalgrave.com>
Subject: Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Elias-Bursac
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Title: Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes
Tribunal
Subtitle: Working in a Tug-of-War
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
Published: 2015
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
                http://www.palgrave.com

Book URL: http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/?K=9781137332660

Author: Ellen Elias-Bursac
Hardback: ISBN: 9781137332660 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 63.00
Abstract:

How can defendants be tried if they cannot understand the charges being raised against them? Can a witness testify if the judges and attorneys cannot understand what the witness is saying? Can a judge decide whether to convict or acquit if she or he cannot read the documentary evidence? The very viability of international criminal prosecution and adjudication hinges on the massive amounts of translation and interpreting that are required in order to run these lengthy, complex trials, and the procedures for handling the demands facing language services. This book explores the dynamic courtroom interactions in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in which witnesses testify—through an interpreter—about translations, attorneys argue—through an interpreter—about translations and the interpreting, and judges adjudicate on the interpreted testimony and translated evidence.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                            Sociolinguistics
                            Translation

Written In: English (eng)

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