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Police interviews: Communication challenges and solutions (2019)

Edited by Luna Filipović
Publisher: John Benjamins, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Contents:

Luna Filipović
Police interviews with suspects: Communication problems in evidence-gathering and possible solutions (pages 9-31)

Andreas Musolff
“You keep telling us different things, what do we believe?” – Meta-communication and meta-representation in police interviews (pages 33-49)

Carlos de Pablos-Ortega
“Would it be fair to say that you actively sought out material?” Mitigation and Aggravation in Police Investigative Interviews (pages 50-72)

Alberto Hijazo-Gascón
Translating accurately or sounding natural? The interpreters’ challenges due to semantic typology and the interpreting process (pages 73-96)

Gabrina Pounds
Rapport-building in suspects’ police interviews: the role of empathy and face (pages 97-124)

Lauren Wilson and David Walsh
Striving for impartiality: Conflicts of role, trust and emotion in interpreter-assisted police interviews (pages 125-150)

Confession to make: Inadvertent confessions and admissions in United Kingdom and United States police contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 5447.

White Paper on Forensic Child Interviewing: Research-based recommendations by the European Association of Psychology and Law

Filipović, Luna (2007) Language as a witness: Insights from cognitive linguistics. Speech, Language and the Law 14(2): 245-267.
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/IJSLL/article/view/9987

Filipović, Luna (2013) The role of language in legal contexts: A forensic cross-linguistic viewpoint. In Freeman, M. and Smith, F. (Eds.) Law and Language: Current Legal Issues (15). Oxford: OUP, 328-343.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/300183310_The_Role_of_Language_in_Legal_Contexts_A_Forensic_Cross-Linguistic_Viewpoint

Filipović, Luna and Hijazo-Gascón, A. (2018) Interpreting meaning in police interviews: Applied Language Typology in a forensic linguistics context. Vigo International Journal of Applied Linguistics VIAL 15: 67 – 104.
https://revistas.uvigo.es/index.php/vial/article/view/87/87

Filipović, Luna and Abad Vergara, Suzanne (2018) Juggling investigation and interpretation: The problematic dual role of police officer-interpreter. Law and Language, 5 (1): 62-79.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353271072_Police_interviews_Communication_challenges_and_solutions

Filipović, Luna (2022) From the crime scene to the language lab and back: Cross-linguistic empirical research on language and the law and its practical applications. International Journal of Language and Law 11: 104-120.
https://www.languageandlaw.eu/jll/article/view/133

Filipović, Luna (2022) Language and culture as sources of inequality in US police interrogations. Applied Linguistics 43 (6): 1073-1093.
https://academic.oup.com/applij/article-abstract/43/6/1073/6674662

Filipović, Luna (2022) The good, the bad and the ugly: Miscommunication in UK Police interviews and US police interrogations. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 37: 297-311. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11896-022-09495-w

Filipović, Luna (2022) The tale of two countries: Police interpreting in the UK vs. in the US. Interpreting 24 (2): 254-278.
https://benjamins.com/catalog/intp.00080.fil?srsltid=AfmBOoq1Pb16GsGZ3xU6YtEZn9rd4mvnz5kteodowCE1x-fN2K0uR2Qr

Hijazo-Gascón, A., Gómez-Bedoya, M., and Filipovic, L. (2024). Interpreting swearwords in police interviews and perceived offensiveness of insults in the UK and Spain. Applied Linguistics, 45 (4), 718-737.
ISSN: 0142-6001
https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amad060

Gomez-Bedoya, M., (2024). Interpreting rapport: Cross-linguistic challenges in police communication with victims. International Journal of Language and Law, 13. 148-170
ISSN: 2194-7414
https://www.languageandlaw.eu/jll/article/view/175/95

Gomez-Bedoya, M. (2025) Rapport in police interviews with victims: a linguistic comparison between UK and Spain. Journal of Criminal Psychology, 15(2): 242-259.
ISSN 2009-3829
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-08-2024-0082

Elder, Chi-He & Filipović, Luna (2025) “I never said that”: Negotiating misunderstandings in police interviews. Pragmatics & Society 16 (2): 174–200.
https://benjamins.com/catalog/ps.21080.eld

Pajon Moreno, L. and Gomez Bedoya, M (2026) Engaging and Communicating with Victims of Modern Slavery. Liverpool John Moores University.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24377/LJMU.t.00028143

– Language Service Protocol for Law Enforcement Bodies

– Guidelines for communicating rights to non-native speakers of English in Australia, England and Wales, and the USA

– Second language speakers in the legal system: Research, guidelines and protocols