Note-taking in court interpreting: Interpreter perceptions and practices in a simulated trial
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Lim, Julie
Martschuk, Natalie
Goodman-Delahunty, Jane
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Note-taking for interpreting is a specialist skill originally developed to assist conference interpreters to remember the contents of long speeches when interpreting consecutively in a unidirectional mode. The bulk of the research into note-taking has been in relation to the classic consecutive interpreting mode in international settings, with little research into the use of note-taking in legal interpreting settings. This paper presents the results of a study on note-taking by 13 court interpreters in a simulated criminal trial in Sydney, Australia. It reports the results of interpreters’ note-taking practices, taking into account their language combination, their own perceptions of mental effort and the usefulness of notes as well as their overall interpreting performance.
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The International Journal for Translation & Interpreting Research
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15
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© The Author(s) 2023. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3. AU) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. You are permitted to remix, transform, and CC-BY build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.
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Law and legal studies
Legal institutions (incl. courts and justice systems)
Language studies
court interpreting
consecutive interpreting
simultaneous interpreting
Mandarin
Spanish
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Hale, S; Lim, J; Martschuk, N; Goodman-Delahunty, J, Note-taking in court interpreting: Interpreter perceptions and practices in a simulated trial, The International Journal for Translation & Interpreting Research, 2023, 15 (1), pp. 1-21