2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of Psychological Impacts of Interpreter's Language on the Lay Judges
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23520528
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Aichi Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
有賀 幸子 (NAKAMURA Sachiko) 愛知学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (50513248)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIZUNO Makiko 金城学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (90388687)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | 法廷通訳研究 / 言語分析 / 語彙使用 / 裁判員 |
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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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Research Products
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