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Xu, Han – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This study explores interpreters' role performance, lawyers' reactions to interpreters' performance, and the perceptions and expectations of the interpreter role among these two groups of professionals. It adopts an ethnographic approach to generate data from observations made in Australia of 20 authentic interpreted lawyer-client interviews and…
Descriptors: Translation, Ethics, Interviews, Lawyers
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Hale, Sandra; Martschuk, Natalie; Goodman-Delahunty, Jane; Taibi, Mustapha; Xu, Han – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2020
Professional interpreters are obliged by their codes of ethics to interpret the speakers' speech faithfully, including offensive, profane or vulgar language. In order to achieve this goal, interpreters need to be pragmatically competent, so as to understand the intention and effect of the offensive remark in the source language and be able to…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Ethics, Verbal Communication, Antisocial Behavior