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BL
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641651
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dltt
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Elias-Bursać, Ellen
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| Title & Author
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Translating evidence and interpreting testimony at a war crimes tribunal : : working in a tug-of-war /\ Ellen Elias-Bursac, independent scholar and literary translator
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| Series Statement
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Palgrave studies in languages at war
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xx, 311 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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9781137332660
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: 1137332662
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-296) and index
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| Contents
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Part I. The translators and interpreters -- 1. The Practitioners -- 2. The Practice -- 3. Practicalities -- Part II. The courtroom -- 4. The Witnesses -- 5. The Office of the Prosecutor -- 6. The Defence -- 7. Chambers and the ICTY Legacy -- Appendix 1. ICTY and CLSS [Conference and Language Services Section] -- Appendix 2. Trial summaries -- Appendix 3. Language services survey -- Appendix 4. Data summary -- Appendix 5. Survey data tables
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| Abstract
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"How can defendants be tried if they cannot understand the charges being raised against them? Can a witness testify if the judges and attorneys cannot understand what the witness is saying? Can a judge decide whether to convict or acquit if she or he cannot read the documentary evidence? The very viability of international criminal prosecution and adjudication hinges on the massive amounts of translation and interpreting that are required in order to run these lengthy, complex trials, and the procedures for handling the demands facing language services. This book explores the dynamic courtroom interactions in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in which witnesses testify--through an interpreter--about translations, attorneys argue--through an interpreter--about translations and the interpreting, and judges adjudicate on the interpreted testimony and translated evidence"--
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Court interpreting and translating
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War crime trials
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Conduct of court proceedings
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Translators-- Legal status, laws, etc
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Law-- Translating
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Translating and interpreting
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| LC Classification
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K2155.E435 2015
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