Mulayim / Lai / Norma Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreting

Context, Challenges, and Strategies
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4822-4256-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 147 Seiten

Reihe: Advances in Police Theory and Practice

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 be used in police training or in any venue where an interpreter is used, Police Investigative Interviews and Interpreting: Context, Challenges, and Strategies provides solutions for the range of interview demands found in today’s multilingual environments.

Topics include:

- What interpreting is, the skills required, and the role of interpreters in any job context

- Investigative interviewing in law enforcement

- Concerns about interpreter intervention and its impact on interview outcomes

- The value of word-based over meaning-based interpretation in police and legal contexts

- Nonlinguistic factors that can have an impact on the interpreting process

The book explores the multi-faceted dynamics of conducting investigative interviews via interpreters and examines current investigative interviewing paradigms. It offers strategies to help interpreters and law enforcement officers and provides examples of interpreted interview excerpts to enable understanding. Although the subject matter and the examples in this book are largely limited to police interview settings, the underlying rationale applies to other professional areas that rely on interviews to collect information, including customs procedures, employer-employee interviews, and insurance claim investigations.

This book is part of the CRC Press Advances in Police Theory and Practice Series.

Zielgruppe

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mulayim, Sedat

Lai, Miranda

Norma, Caroline

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Technische Informatik Computersicherheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Interpreting Profession
What Is Interpreting?
Interpreters Are Like
Role of Interpreter
The Interpreting Process
What Is Being Transferred Across Languages?
Lexis Across Languages—and Beyond
Classification of Meaning
Core Competence of an Interpreter
Skills Required for Interpreting
Bilingualism: Language Competence
Biculturalism: Cultural/Contextual Knowledge
Transfer Skills
Modes of Interpreting
The Professional Role of Interpreters in Legal Settings
Investigative Interviewing
The Significance of Investigative Interviews
Interviewing Skills of Police Officers
When Interpreters Are Needed
Impact of Interpreting on Questioning Strategies Used By Police
Main Features of Police Discourse
Power Asymmetry
Primary versus Secondary Reality
Lexical Choice
Produced for a Third Party
Turn-Taking
Highly Prescriptive Opening and Closing
Two Major Police Interview Models
The PEACE Model
The Reid Technique
Overview of Interpreting Challenges and Interpreter Conduct Issues
Overview of Interpreter Intervention
The Role of Professional Interpreters
Conduct Issues of Professional Interpreters
Interpreter Giving Instructions or Prodding Speaker Into Action
Managing Issues Resulting From Power Asymmetry
Linguistic Transfer Issues in Police
Interpreting and Recommended Strategies
Style of Interpreting: Free versus Literal
The Law and Words
Literal Rule
Purpose (Golden) Rule
Mischief Rule
The Power of Words
Handling Interviewer’s Rapport-Building Strategies
Misinterpreting Lexical Items/Collocations
Misinterpreting Grammatical Structures/Units
Active and Passive Sentence Structures
Definite and Indefinite Articles
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