Paralanguage/ Body Language teaches how these two aspects of communication directly impact the interpreter’s work. It shows how the interpreter’s use of illustrators, directional gestures, spatial gestures and self-touching negatively affect the interpretation. In addition, it explores the following areas:

• Specifications set forth in the Interpreter Code of Ethics
• Sample instructions to be given to the non-English speaker at depositions
• Sample instructions to be included in the attorney’s admonitions
• Key factors of body language: social simulation, intensification demonstrations, expression inhibitions and emotional masking
• Typical body language displayed in sexual harassment cases and descriptors used by attorneys
• Fourteen specific interpreter do’s and don’ts