Susan Berk‐seligson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 187151 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susan Berk‐seligson |
| NOMBRES | Susan |
| APELLIDO | Berk‐seligson |
| FIRMA | SELIGSON S B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Reported threats
This study offers new insights into the complex and underexplored nature of reported threats. Combining the theoretical framework of speech act analysis with the concept of reported speech, the study finds six categories of reported threats, uncovering ones that have been overlooked by existing scholarship thus far. The texts presented are derived from audio-recordings of 847 interviews carried out in four Central American countries: El Salvador,…
Negotiation and communicative accommodation in bilingual police interrogations
When geographically displaced persons who have limited proficiency in English undergo custodial interrogations in police stations in the USA, they are not necessarily guaranteed the services of professional interpreters. In fact, research shows a growing trend toward the use of police officers as interpreters at such interrogations. This trend is viewed as problematic for several reasons: police interpreters are unfamiliar with judicial norms req…
Coerced Confessions
The book presents a discourse analysis of police interrogations involving U.S. Hispanic suspects accused of crimes. The study is unique in that it concentrates on interrogations involving suspects whose first language is not English and police officers who have a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish. It examines the pitfalls of using police officers as interpreters at custodial interrogations. Using an interactional sociolinguistic discourse analytic…
Judicial systems in contact
The Quichua of Ecuador, along with other indigenous peoples of Latin America, have been struggling to attain the right to use their ancestral language and their traditional ways of administering justice in an effort to gain greater autonomy in a variety of sociopolitical spheres of life. Based on interviews with 93 Ecuadorians — judges, magistrates, lawyers, justices of the peace, interpreters, translators, and local and national political leader…
Narrating in protective order interviews
This study examines the types of interactional trouble that arise from narrative variation in institutional interviews. Specifically, we examine protective order interviews in which Latina women tell of domestic violence to paralegal interviewers charged with the duty of helping them obtain a protective order. Victims' narratives are shown to take different shapes, and paralegals respond to them in different pragmalinguistic ways, depending on ho…
Interpreting for the police
During the investigative phase of the judicial process, interpreting for those who do not speak the language of the courts is often carried out either by bilingual police officers and other employees of the police department, or by relatives and friends of suspects or detainees. In any of these cases, the norms of professional court interpreting can easily be violated. A review of appellate cases coming from California, Florida and New York revea…
The impact of court interpreting on the coerciveness of leading questions
Leading questions comprise a powerful weapon in the tactical arsenal of attorneys because such questions to a great degree control the outcome of witnesses’ answers. This paper addresses two research questions. First, ‘What characterizes leading questions, from a linguistic point of view?’ Second, looking at leading questions in a context of foreign-language interpreting, it asks, ‘What impact do court interpreters have on leading questions?’ The…
The Translator as Communicator
The Translator as Communicator. Basil Hatim and Ian Mason. New York: Routledge, 1997. 244 pp
The Bilingual Courtroom. Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process
The role of register in the bilingual courtroom
Article The role of register in the bilingual courtroom: evaluative reactions to interpreted testimony was published on January 1, 1989 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1989, issue 79)
The impact of politeness in witness testimony
The intersection of testimony styles in interpreted judicial proceedings
Article The intersection of testimony styles in interpreted judicial proceedings: pragmatic alterations in Spanish testimony was published on January 1, 1987 in the journal Linguistics (volume 25, issue 6).
Linguistic constraints on intrasentential code-switching
In recent years, research has increasingly pointed toward the universality of three linguistic constraints on code-switching: (1) an equivalence of structure constraint, (2) a size-of-constituent constraint, and (3) a free morpheme constraint. The evidence derived from this study challenges the universality of the first two of these constraints, and argues instead that their claim to universality is largely a function of the coincidental relative…
Subjective reactions to phonological variation in Costa Rican Spanish
Virginia Zúñiga Tristán. El anglicismo en el habla costarricense
Sources of variation in spanish verb construction usage
A Sociolinguistic View of the Mexican-American Speech Community
Sociolinguistics, itself a relatively young field of scholarly endeavor, more and more has been reflecting an interest in Mexican Americans insofar as they, like blacks and American Indians, constitute a distinct linguistic-social group that is grappling with the problems common to poor ethnic minorities in the United States. This paper intends to survey the literature existing to date on the Chicano speech community as viewed from a sociocultura…
Language and Political Behavior
This paper attempts to show the relevance of sociolinguistic methodology for social and political research. In particular, it reveals that, at least for the data analyzed, a sociolinguistic measure of socioeconomic status (SES) is a more powerful predictor of political behavior than are the traditional measures of SES (e.g., income and education). The paper explicates in detail the three stages necessary for carrying out this kind of research, ex…
The phonological correlates of social stratification in the Spanish of Costa Rica
Linguistic constraints on intrasentential code-switching
In recent years, research has increasingly pointed toward the universality of three linguistic constraints on code-switching: (1) an equivalence of structure constraint, (2) a size-of-constituent constraint, and (3) a free morpheme constraint. The evidence derived from this study challenges the universality of the first two of these constraints, and argues instead that their claim to universality is largely a function of the coincidental relative…
Narrating in protective order interviews
This study examines the types of interactional trouble that arise from narrative variation in institutional interviews. Specifically, we examine protective order interviews in which Latina women tell of domestic violence to paralegal interviewers charged with the duty of helping them obtain a protective order. Victims' narratives are shown to take different shapes, and paralegals respond to them in different pragmalinguistic ways, depending on ho…
The role of register in the bilingual courtroom
Article The role of register in the bilingual courtroom: evaluative reactions to interpreted testimony was published on January 1, 1989 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1989, issue 79)
The impact of politeness in witness testimony
Language and Political Behavior
This paper attempts to show the relevance of sociolinguistic methodology for social and political research. In particular, it reveals that, at least for the data analyzed, a sociolinguistic measure of socioeconomic status (SES) is a more powerful predictor of political behavior than are the traditional measures of SES (e.g., income and education). The paper explicates in detail the three stages necessary for carrying out this kind of research, ex…
Judicial systems in contact
The Quichua of Ecuador, along with other indigenous peoples of Latin America, have been struggling to attain the right to use their ancestral language and their traditional ways of administering justice in an effort to gain greater autonomy in a variety of sociopolitical spheres of life. Based on interviews with 93 Ecuadorians — judges, magistrates, lawyers, justices of the peace, interpreters, translators, and local and national political leader…
Subjective reactions to phonological variation in Costa Rican Spanish
The phonological correlates of social stratification in the Spanish of Costa Rica
Negotiation and communicative accommodation in bilingual police interrogations
When geographically displaced persons who have limited proficiency in English undergo custodial interrogations in police stations in the USA, they are not necessarily guaranteed the services of professional interpreters. In fact, research shows a growing trend toward the use of police officers as interpreters at such interrogations. This trend is viewed as problematic for several reasons: police interpreters are unfamiliar with judicial norms req…
Sources of variation in spanish verb construction usage
Language and Political Behavior
This paper attempts to show the relevance of sociolinguistic methodology for social and political research. In particular, it reveals that, at least for the data analyzed, a sociolinguistic measure of socioeconomic status (SES) is a more powerful predictor of political behavior than are the traditional measures of SES (e.g., income and education). The paper explicates in detail the three stages necessary for carrying out this kind of research, ex…
The phonological correlates of social stratification in the Spanish of Costa Rica
A Sociolinguistic View of the Mexican-American Speech Community
Sociolinguistics, itself a relatively young field of scholarly endeavor, more and more has been reflecting an interest in Mexican Americans insofar as they, like blacks and American Indians, constitute a distinct linguistic-social group that is grappling with the problems common to poor ethnic minorities in the United States. This paper intends to survey the literature existing to date on the Chicano speech community as viewed from a sociocultura…
Virginia Zúñiga Tristán. El anglicismo en el habla costarricense
Sources of variation in spanish verb construction usage
Subjective reactions to phonological variation in Costa Rican Spanish
Linguistic constraints on intrasentential code-switching
In recent years, research has increasingly pointed toward the universality of three linguistic constraints on code-switching: (1) an equivalence of structure constraint, (2) a size-of-constituent constraint, and (3) a free morpheme constraint. The evidence derived from this study challenges the universality of the first two of these constraints, and argues instead that their claim to universality is largely a function of the coincidental relative…
The intersection of testimony styles in interpreted judicial proceedings
Article The intersection of testimony styles in interpreted judicial proceedings: pragmatic alterations in Spanish testimony was published on January 1, 1987 in the journal Linguistics (volume 25, issue 6).
The impact of politeness in witness testimony
The role of register in the bilingual courtroom
Article The role of register in the bilingual courtroom: evaluative reactions to interpreted testimony was published on January 1, 1989 in the journal International Journal of the Sociology of Language (volume 1989, issue 79)
The Bilingual Courtroom. Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process
The Translator as Communicator
The Translator as Communicator. Basil Hatim and Ian Mason. New York: Routledge, 1997. 244 pp
The impact of court interpreting on the coerciveness of leading questions
Leading questions comprise a powerful weapon in the tactical arsenal of attorneys because such questions to a great degree control the outcome of witnesses’ answers. This paper addresses two research questions. First, ‘What characterizes leading questions, from a linguistic point of view?’ Second, looking at leading questions in a context of foreign-language interpreting, it asks, ‘What impact do court interpreters have on leading questions?’ The…
Interpreting for the police
During the investigative phase of the judicial process, interpreting for those who do not speak the language of the courts is often carried out either by bilingual police officers and other employees of the police department, or by relatives and friends of suspects or detainees. In any of these cases, the norms of professional court interpreting can easily be violated. A review of appellate cases coming from California, Florida and New York revea…
Narrating in protective order interviews
This study examines the types of interactional trouble that arise from narrative variation in institutional interviews. Specifically, we examine protective order interviews in which Latina women tell of domestic violence to paralegal interviewers charged with the duty of helping them obtain a protective order. Victims' narratives are shown to take different shapes, and paralegals respond to them in different pragmalinguistic ways, depending on ho…
Judicial systems in contact
The Quichua of Ecuador, along with other indigenous peoples of Latin America, have been struggling to attain the right to use their ancestral language and their traditional ways of administering justice in an effort to gain greater autonomy in a variety of sociopolitical spheres of life. Based on interviews with 93 Ecuadorians — judges, magistrates, lawyers, justices of the peace, interpreters, translators, and local and national political leader…
Coerced Confessions
The book presents a discourse analysis of police interrogations involving U.S. Hispanic suspects accused of crimes. The study is unique in that it concentrates on interrogations involving suspects whose first language is not English and police officers who have a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish. It examines the pitfalls of using police officers as interpreters at custodial interrogations. Using an interactional sociolinguistic discourse analytic…
Negotiation and communicative accommodation in bilingual police interrogations
When geographically displaced persons who have limited proficiency in English undergo custodial interrogations in police stations in the USA, they are not necessarily guaranteed the services of professional interpreters. In fact, research shows a growing trend toward the use of police officers as interpreters at such interrogations. This trend is viewed as problematic for several reasons: police interpreters are unfamiliar with judicial norms req…
Reported threats
This study offers new insights into the complex and underexplored nature of reported threats. Combining the theoretical framework of speech act analysis with the concept of reported speech, the study finds six categories of reported threats, uncovering ones that have been overlooked by existing scholarship thus far. The texts presented are derived from audio-recordings of 847 interviews carried out in four Central American countries: El Salvador,…
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