Non-standard court interpreting as risk management

Most codes of ethics stipulate that court interpreters should give verbatim renditions, should not have side conversations with the witness or the defendant, and should use the alien-I. However, when we find these maxims flouted by outsourced interpreters working in trials in Barcelona, the observed...

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Autores: Pym, Anthony, Raigal Aran, Judith|||0000-0002-0387-0867, Bestué, Carmen|||0000-0001-7945-9348
Tipo de documento: capítulo de livro
Data de publicação:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositório:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglês
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Palavra-chave:Court interpreting
Ethics of interpreting
Risk management
Trust
Non-standard interpreting
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spelling Non-standard court interpreting as risk managementPym, AnthonyRaigal Aran, Judith|||0000-0002-0387-0867Bestué, Carmen|||0000-0001-7945-9348Court interpretingEthics of interpretingRisk managementTrustNon-standard interpretingMost codes of ethics stipulate that court interpreters should give verbatim renditions, should not have side conversations with the witness or the defendant, and should use the alien-I. However, when we find these maxims flouted by outsourced interpreters working in trials in Barcelona, the observed practices may be considered non-standard and yet constitute an expected and even accepted social practice. Here we attempt to understand why interpreters sometimes abandon all illusion of equivalence, why side-conversations occur in certain hearings, and why interpreters sometimes speak in their own voice, becoming direct participants in discursive exchanges. Risk analysis enables us to model ways in which these practices can ensure that cooperation is achieved and time is not wasted. In one case study, side conversations between the defendant and the interpreter serve to inform the defendant of the possible consequences of a plea. Such a practice nevertheless requires that the officers of the court trust interpreters to exceptionally high degrees. In a second case study, disagreements between the judge and the interpreter, technically over issues of translation equivalence, lead to distrust in the interpreter to the point where cooperation becomes impossible. In this instance, a non-standard practice that might be efficient elsewhere leads to communicative failure. It is thus found that non-standard interpreting can be efficient when the participants' risk-management strategies are aligned and trust is operative; on the other hand, it can also convert trivial differences into high-stakes disputes that throw risk-management strategies out of alignment.John Benjamins 22023-01-0120232023-01-01Capítol de llibrehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248SMURhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_71e4c1898caa6e32info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/274291reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:2742912026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Non-standard court interpreting as risk management
title Non-standard court interpreting as risk management
spellingShingle Non-standard court interpreting as risk management
Pym, Anthony
Court interpreting
Ethics of interpreting
Risk management
Trust
Non-standard interpreting
title_short Non-standard court interpreting as risk management
title_full Non-standard court interpreting as risk management
title_fullStr Non-standard court interpreting as risk management
title_full_unstemmed Non-standard court interpreting as risk management
title_sort Non-standard court interpreting as risk management
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pym, Anthony
Raigal Aran, Judith|||0000-0002-0387-0867
Bestué, Carmen|||0000-0001-7945-9348
author Pym, Anthony
author_facet Pym, Anthony
Raigal Aran, Judith|||0000-0002-0387-0867
Bestué, Carmen|||0000-0001-7945-9348
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author2 Raigal Aran, Judith|||0000-0002-0387-0867
Bestué, Carmen|||0000-0001-7945-9348
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author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Court interpreting
Ethics of interpreting
Risk management
Trust
Non-standard interpreting
topic Court interpreting
Ethics of interpreting
Risk management
Trust
Non-standard interpreting
description Most codes of ethics stipulate that court interpreters should give verbatim renditions, should not have side conversations with the witness or the defendant, and should use the alien-I. However, when we find these maxims flouted by outsourced interpreters working in trials in Barcelona, the observed practices may be considered non-standard and yet constitute an expected and even accepted social practice. Here we attempt to understand why interpreters sometimes abandon all illusion of equivalence, why side-conversations occur in certain hearings, and why interpreters sometimes speak in their own voice, becoming direct participants in discursive exchanges. Risk analysis enables us to model ways in which these practices can ensure that cooperation is achieved and time is not wasted. In one case study, side conversations between the defendant and the interpreter serve to inform the defendant of the possible consequences of a plea. Such a practice nevertheless requires that the officers of the court trust interpreters to exceptionally high degrees. In a second case study, disagreements between the judge and the interpreter, technically over issues of translation equivalence, lead to distrust in the interpreter to the point where cooperation becomes impossible. In this instance, a non-standard practice that might be efficient elsewhere leads to communicative failure. It is thus found that non-standard interpreting can be efficient when the participants' risk-management strategies are aligned and trust is operative; on the other hand, it can also convert trivial differences into high-stakes disputes that throw risk-management strategies out of alignment.
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