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Autor/in | Pavlenko, Aneta |
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Titel | "I'm Very Not About the Law Part": Nonnative Speakers of English and the Miranda Warnings |
Quelle | In: TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 42 (2008) 1, S.1-30 (30 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0039-8322 |
Schlagwörter | Stellungnahme; Justice; English (Second Language); Case Studies; Second Language Learning; Law Enforcement; Police; Language Proficiency; Translation; Second Language Instruction; Bilingualism; Civil Rights |
Abstract | This article presents a case study of a police interrogation of a nonnative speaker (NNS) of English. I show that the high linguistic and conceptual complexity of police cautions, such as the Miranda warnings, complicates understanding of these texts even by NNSs of English with a high level of interactional competence. I argue that the U.S. criminal justice system should accommodate NNSs of English at all proficiency levels by adopting a bilingual standard, that is, by offering the Miranda warnings in English and in a standardized translation into the speaker's native language. I also argue that common legal terms, concepts, and texts need to find a place in the adult ESL curriculum. (Contains 6 footnotes.) (As Provided). |
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Update | 2017/4/10 |