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What is different about court interpreting compared to other types of interpreting?

April 26, 2017Court different interpreting types

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What is different about court interpreting compared to other types of interpreting?

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In the New England Law Review (Winter, 1996). Charles M. Grabau and Llewellyn Joseph Gibbons state that “the proper role of the interpreter is to place the non-English-speaker, as closely as is linguistically possible, in the same situation as the English speaker in a legal setting.” This involves rendering at times technical, extreme, or highly charged colloquial language as well as formal “legalese”.