Article,
Doing justice to court interpreting
The Translator, (2014)
Abstract
Doing justice to court interpreting, edited by Miriam Shlesinger and Franz Pöchhacker, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2010, viii + 246 pp., US\$135.00, €90.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-9-027-22256-5 With its catchy title, Doing Justice to Court Interpreting, this book is a collection of eight articles by nine authors who explore the multifaceted world of court interpreting. It was first published as a special issue of Interpreting (10 1, 2008) and then, with an additional two articles, published in a later issue of the same journal (12 1, 2010). The book also includes four book reviews that focus on the Nuremberg Trials, community interpreting, and the Proceedings of the Critical Link 4 conference held in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2004. The editors, Miriam Shlesinger and Franz Pöchhacker, have put together articles that capture a very important component in judiciary interpreting: the increasing integration of academia with concerns regarding the theory and practice of court interpreting. The authors of the articles collected in this edition, in short, embody what can be considered as practising theoreticians actively engaged in the training and education of court interpreters, in researching what happens in the courtroom and cultivating an in-depth interest in and knowledge of what legislative authorities are doing to assure language access in the judiciary
