An Introduction to Court Interpreting

This work presents an up-to-date treatment of the principal issues pertaining to court interpreting in the United States. It provides a synthesis of information regarding court interpreting, based upon a variety of published and unpublished sources, many of them obscure or otherwise difficult to access. The approach is by necessity interdisciplinary, dealing with languages in contact, bilingualism, dialectal varieties of language, the interpreting process, and legal issues. Contents: A Brief History of Court Interpreting in U.S. Courts; The Interpreting Process; Defining the Terms; Language and Culture; Interpreting Nonstandard Language; Interpreting in Court; Court Interpreting as a Profession; Practice; Sight Translation; Consecutive Interpretation; Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpretation; Simultaneous Interpretation; Appendix.