Bilingual Court Proceedings

摘要: Ethnographers interested in linguistic behavior have long looked at speaker role as a key variable determining what person will say given situation and how he or she it (Hymes, 1962, 1972). Participants particular setting various sorts of expectations regarding the verbal other participants. This chapter intends to explore relatively new participant is typically highly ritualized setting: courtroom. It demonstrate that expected terms on part an official courtroom far from fulfilled. Specifically, analyzes foreign language court interpreter tries show social would require her,2 why these reality are not