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Title: | Facework strategies in interpreter-mediated cross-examinations: a corpus-assisted approach | Authors: | Liu, Xin Hale, Sandra |
Keywords: | Facework strategies; court interpreting; questions; cross-examination; corpus-assisted research | Issue Date: | 2017 | Publisher: | EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste | Source: | Xin Liu, Sandra Hale, "Facework strategies in interpreter-mediated cross-examinations: a corpus-assisted approach", in: The Interpreters' Newsletter n. 22 (2017), Trieste, EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2017, pp. 57-77 | Abstract: | In cross-examination, witnesses’ face is frequently threatened by legal professionals. Face-threatening acts (Brown/Levinson 1987) are considered powerful institutional tools for lawyers; however, in a bilingual courtroom where all the interactions are mediated by a third party, the interpreter, this is often complicated. Drawing on a small-scale corpus, five bilingual moot court cross-examinations interpreted by Interpreting and Translation (I&T) Master’s students at UNSW Sydney, this paper investigates facework strategies embedded in cross-examining questions and in their Mandarin interpretation based on Penman’s (1990) facework schema. More specifically, it examines the way facework strategies are used in cross-examination questions, the extent to which they are maintained or modified in the interpretation, and how that may affect the pragmatics of the courtroom questions. The findings contribute to a better understanding of the pragmatics of interpreted courtroom questions and to legal interpreter training. |
Type: | Article | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10077/20738 | ISSN: | 1591-4127 | eISSN: | 2421-714X | DOI: | 10.13137/2421-714X/20738 | Rights: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internazionale |
Appears in Collections: | The Interpreters' Newsletter n. 22 - 2017 |
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