Abstract When information is elicited from children in a criminal context, both their ability and willingness to disclose is at stake. In law, the communicative vulnerability of children is manifest in forensic protocols for interviewing children. These are designed to retrieve information in a child-aware fashion, as well as to produce evidence with sufficient integrity to stand up under the scrutiny of the criminal process. This article will consider some of the added challenges of interpreter-mediated interviews for minors. Drawing on research into monolingual child interviewing, the article proposes how some of the interpreting related aspects of this challenge may be addressed through the adaptation of elements of reflexive coordination in the widely used NICHD child interviewing protocol. The authors call for the data-based testing of these adaptations and suggests that modifications of institutional speech genres for bilingual use may be a component of mainstreaming public service interpreting.

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口译员对未成年人的调查访谈

摘要当在犯罪背景下从儿童那里获取信息时，他们的披露能力和意愿都受到威胁。在法律上，儿童的交流脆弱性在采访儿童的法医协议中有明显体现。这些工具旨在以儿童感知的方式检索信息，并提供足够正当的证据以在犯罪程序的审查下站起来。本文将考虑由口译员进行的针对未成年人的访谈所带来的其他挑战。文章基于对单语种儿童访谈的研究，提出了如何通过在广泛使用的NICHD儿童访谈协议中改编自反协调的要素来解决这一挑战的一些解释相关方面。