| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
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| Research Abstract |
In order to identify the possible impact of court interpreter's lexical choices on the lay judges, a court experiment was conducted, inviting 80 citizens as mock lay judges. The results revealed that depending on the lexical choice of interpreters, the audience had formed different impressions. They were more likely to judge "guilty" if a certain English word is translated into a crime-tinted Japanese. A similar tendency was observed in the judgment of "crime severity" "trustworthiness of the testimony" etc. As a follow up, an additional experiment was conducted to confirm the word(s) that had led them to a certain decision-making. The results suggest that un-marked expressions such as ordinary verbs were changed to more marked ones such as nominalized phrases in the hearers' mind and stayed in their memory. Such marked expressions seem to have contributed to the formation of specific impressions. The findings were presented in the international conference organized for legal experts.
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