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Translating Evidence and Interpreting Testimony at a War Crimes Tribunal: Working in a Tug-of-War

By Ellen Elias-Bursac

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2015
ISBN
1137332662, 9781137332660
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4287877 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in Languages at War
Pages
xx+312\333
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-03-07 21:34:48

Description

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.

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