LEADER 04670nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910455660503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-18804-6 010 $a9786612188046 010 $a3-11-021349-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110213492 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788241 035 $a(EBL)453806 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC453806 035 $a(DE-B1597)35706 035 $a(OCoLC)646812083 035 $a(OCoLC)703215915 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110213492 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL453806 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10314555 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL218804 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788241 100 $a20090312d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCoerced confessions$b[electronic resource] $ethe discourse of bilingual police interrogations /$fby Susan Berk-Seligson 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (274 p.) 225 1 $aLanguage, power, and social process ;$v25 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-026874-4 311 $a3-11-021348-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [225]-247) and indexes. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tChapter 1. Introduction: language and institutional power -- $tChapter 2. Interpreting for the police: issues in pre-trial phases of the judicial process -- $tChapter 3. The Miranda warnings and linguistic coercion: the role of footing in the interrogation of a limited-English-speaking murder suspect -- $tChapter 4. Coercion and its limits: admitting to murder but resisting an accusation of attempted rape -- $tChapter 5. Does every yeah mean 'yes' in a police interrogation? -- $tChapter 6. Pidginization and asymmetrical communicative accommodation in a child molestation case -- $tChapter 7. Confessing in the absence of recording: linguistic and extralinguistic evidence of coercion in a police interrogation -- $tChapter 8. Conclusions -- $t Backmatter 330 $aThe book presents a discourse analysis of police interrogations involving U.S. Hispanic suspects accused of crimes. The study is unique in that it concentrates on interrogations involving suspects whose first language is not English and police officers who have a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish. It examines the pitfalls of using police officers as interpreters at custodial interrogations. Using an interactional sociolinguistic discourse analytical approach, the book offers a microlinguistic examination of interrogations involving persons accused of murder, child molestation, and kidnapping. Communication difficulties are shown to arise from suspects' limited proficiency in English and police officers' equally limited proficiency in Spanish, coupled with the unwillingness of these officers to remain in interpreter footing. The volume demonstrates how pidginization and asymmetrical communicative accommodation can emerge in such situations of highly unequal power relations. It also demonstrates how cultural factors such as acquiescence to interlocutors of greater authority and higher socioeconomic status can lead persons of certain Latin American backgrounds to engage in "gratuitous concurrence", answering "yes" to police questions even when it is clear that that these yes-tokens are not truly affirmative responses to those questions. In addition, the book provides evidence of the kinds of abuse that can result from police interrogations that are not electronically recorded.Coerced Confessions reviews appellate cases involving police interpreters spanning a thirty-four-year period, and concludes that the Miranda rights are placed in jeopardy when a police officer is assigned the role of interpreter at a custodial interrogation. 410 0$aLanguage, power, and social process ;$v25. 606 $aCritical discourse analysis$xSocial aspects 606 $aBilingualism$xSocial aspects 606 $aPolice questioning$xSocial aspects 606 $aIntercultural communication$xSocial aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCritical discourse analysis$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aBilingualism$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aPolice questioning$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aIntercultural communication$xSocial aspects. 676 $a306.44 700 $aBerk-Seligson$b Susan$01036378 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455660503321 996 $aCoerced confessions$92456677 997 $aUNINA