Legal Interpreting and Questioning Techniques Explained

Mira Kadrić is professor for Interpreting Studies and Didactics of Translation at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research focuses especially on empirical work on interpreting, drawing on her experience as an interpreter for the courts, public services and political institutions. Monika Stempkowski is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research focuses on questions of legal psychology, mentally ill perpetrators, illicit drugs and prison studies. She is registered as a clinical and health psychologist and as a certified mediator. Ivana Havelka is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include dialogue interpreting and technology-mediated interpreting, with a focus on legal contexts. She has over a decade of experience as a court interpreter in Austria.

Contents

List of figures

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1 Questioning and interpreting as special forms of communication

2 Institutional safeguards of rights

3 Interpreting as part of communication in legal settings and at public authorities

4 Psychology of (interpreted) communication

5 Questioning and interpreting techniques

6. Cultures of communication and interpreting with a focus on evidence gathering

7 Hybridity of communication as a challenge for interpersonal communication

Conclusion: Questioning and interpreting as two sides of the same communication coin

Glossary