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This chapter explores the impact of interpreter mediation on suspects’ tellings of their versions of events. Since all the suspects in the data set denied the allegations against them, conflicting versions of events are manifest in the interview discourse. However, the way in which the versions of the events are constructed is at times made more complex by the process of interpreting. How this occurs is demonstrated in this chapter by focusing on turn-taking in tripartite interaction and suspect-resistance strategies.
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Nakane, I. (2014). Mediated Responses and Balance of Power. In: Interpreter-mediated Police Interviews. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137443199_5
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