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The Interplay between Linguistic and Non-Verbal Communication in an Interpreter-Mediated Main Hearing of a Victim's Testimony
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Simo Määttä; Tuija Kinnunen – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2024
This article examines verbal and non-verbal communication between the interpreter and the injured party in a video-recorded main hearing of a criminal matter at a court of first instance in Finland. The language of the court was Finnish and the interpreter and injured party communicated in French, the interpreter's B language and the injured…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Courts, Translation, Speech Communication
"Special Concern"? A Mixed-Methods Examination of the Tension between Legal and Practical Conceptions of Academic Freedom
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Evan Sparks Ringel – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Academic freedom is an oft-invoked buzzword in debates about campus speech and the American university. But how have courts treated legal disputes where faculty members have invoked academic freedom as a potential constitutional interest? And how do faculty themselves conceptualize academic freedom? The similarities and differences between these…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Federal Legislation, Courts, Constitutional Law
Essays on Admissions to Higher Education and Juvenile Criminal Justice
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Yu-Kuan Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying problems faced by youths in two contexts that could be pivotal to their future: admissions to higher education and the juvenile criminal justice system. The underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields has been studied extensively, and there have…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Gender Differences, Achievement Gap, Ethics