日本の司法通訳研究の流れ

―方法論を中心に

抄録

This paper describes the trend of legal interpreting research conducted in Japan from 1980s to 2012. Focusing especially on research methodologies and frames of theories, it consists of three parts: the overall trend of legal interpreting research in Japan, possibilities of applying corpus linguistics and statistical analysis based on mock trials and court experiments, and possibilities of applying approaches of social linguistics and linguistic anthropology.