TY - JOUR
T1 - Who is responsible? Participant roles in legal interpreting cases
AU - Leung, Ester S. M.
AU - Gibbons, John
N1 - Funding Information:
The transcriptions of the courtroom recordings were performed by Leonard Y.Y. Yip, Eva Y. T. Wong and Yama Y. N. Wong, and were funded by Hong KongBaptist Faculty Research Grants numbers FRG/02-03/II-22 and CERG Grant Ref.HKBU2146/03H.
Publisher copyright:
© Walter de Gruyter
PY - 2008/8
Y1 - 2008/8
N2 - Goffman (1981) provides the framework for the analysis of the different & ‘participant’ roles played by speakers in conversation. They are: the role of the ‘animator’, the sounding box from which utterances comes; the ‘author’, the agent who puts together, composes, or scripts the lines that are uttered; and that of the ‘principal’, the party to whose position, stand, and belief the words attest. Legal interpreters often face various dilemmas with regard to the participant roles they play in the courtroom. Whether interpreters should allow their personal belief and ideology to influence their interpreting, taking on the role of ‘principal’, and whether they can and should interpret only what makes sense to them, and so playing the role of the ‘author’. This is the core issue that is examined in this paper.
AB - Goffman (1981) provides the framework for the analysis of the different & ‘participant’ roles played by speakers in conversation. They are: the role of the ‘animator’, the sounding box from which utterances comes; the ‘author’, the agent who puts together, composes, or scripts the lines that are uttered; and that of the ‘principal’, the party to whose position, stand, and belief the words attest. Legal interpreters often face various dilemmas with regard to the participant roles they play in the courtroom. Whether interpreters should allow their personal belief and ideology to influence their interpreting, taking on the role of ‘principal’, and whether they can and should interpret only what makes sense to them, and so playing the role of the ‘author’. This is the core issue that is examined in this paper.
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U2 - 10.1515/MULTI.2008.010
DO - 10.1515/MULTI.2008.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:61249291104
SN - 0167-8507
VL - 27
SP - 177
EP - 191
JO - Multilingua
JF - Multilingua
IS - 3
ER -