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To locate this book in the relevant fields of research, this chapter gives an overview of research into police interview discourse and interpreter-mediated legal discourse. It introduces the institutional frameworks which shape police interviews, as well as sociolinguistic perspectives on police interview discourse as a genre. The chapter then discusses research into interpreter mediation as interaction and interpreted discourse in the legal context.
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Nakane, I. (2014). Police Interviews and Interpreter Mediation. In: Interpreter-mediated Police Interviews. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137443199_2
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