: Susan Berk-Seligson
: Coerced Confessions The Discourse of Bilingual Police Interrogations
: De Gruyter Mouton
: 9783110213492
: Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP]ISSN
: 1
: CHF 180.80
:
: Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
: English
: 273
: Wasserzeichen/DRM
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: PDF

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. The volume examines the pitfalls of using police officers as interpreters at custodial interrogations.



Susan Berk-Seligson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.
Frontmatter1
Contents9
Chapter 1. Introduction: language and institutional power13
Chapter 2. Interpreting for the police: issues in pre-trial phases of the judicial process27
Chapter 3. The Miranda warnings and linguistic coercion: the role of footing in the interrogation of a limited-English-speaking murder suspect50
Chapter 4. Coercion and its limits: admitting to murder but resisting an accusation of attempted rape83
Chapter 5. Does every yeah mean ‘yes’ in a police interrogation?113
Chapter 6. Pidginization and asymmetrical communicative accommodation in a child molestation case154
Chapter 7. Confessing in the absence of recording: linguistic and extralinguistic evidence of coercion in a police interrogation183
Chapter 8. Conclusions223