This is a comprehensive overview of the field of Community Interpreting. It explores the
relationship between research, training and practice, reviewing the main theoretical …

torical survey of language and intercultural communication studies with a critical assessment
of past and present theory, research, and practice, as well as an insight into future directions …

From the diverse work and often competing insights of women's human rights activists,
Brooke Ackerly has written a feminist and a universal theory of human rights that bridges the …

Organizations acting on behalf of society are expected to act fairly, explaining themselves
and their procedures. For the police, explanation is routine and repetitive. It's also very …

The article is a two-pronged study. From the initial assumption that the act of incitement is a
perlocutionary act, which depends for its success on hearer cooperation, it is shown that …

At first glance, communicating a suspect's rights in police interviews appears to be a
straightforward task. However, it is more complex than it appears. In particular, for suspects …

The UK police caution, delivered to suspects on arrest, has undergone a number of rewrites,
most recently in 1995 as a reaction to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, 1994. This …

Poor communication between police and the public (particularly people who lack a full
language proficiency) runs the risk of injustice and of inefficiencies in police procedures …

The authors' experience in conducting English language proficiency tests for second
language speakers of English facing police charges has shown that some have limited …

Difficulties have long been observed in communicating legal rights to some Aboriginal
people in Australia. In the Northern Territory, audio translations of the right to silence in …