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“Nicole Slapped Michelle”

Interpreters and Theories of Interpreting at the O. J.

Simpson Trial

ANTHONY PYM

Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain

Abstract. The public perception of court interpreters operates

through theories located in discourses both within and around the

court. Analysis of interpreting at the 1995 criminal trial of O. J.

Simpson shows that such theories are able to explain apparent linguistic

shifts in terms of lexical non-correspondence, intralingual

discursive coherence, sociocultural bias, variety alignment, a ‘userexpectation’

principle, the fiction of non-hermeneutic rendition as

a mode of professional demarcation, the priority of the cultural

component, and various appeals to linguistic and academic expertise.

Although all these approaches can provide explanations

of apparent shifts, only cost-beneficial theories are found to be

successful within the court context. It is concluded that any scholarly

intervention in this field should be in terms of theories able to

provide explanations adequate to the amount of analytical effort

to be invested.

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