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Thursday, January 29, 2004
A New Series Explores Unique Facets
of Signed Language Interpretation
From Topic
Boundaries to Omission: New Research on Interpretation marks the advent of Studies in Interpretation, “a much-needed series,” notes Ceil Lucas,
Professor of Linguistics at Gallaudet University and series editor of the
Sociolinguistics in
Deaf Communities series, “that will fill a significant gap in the field of
interpretation.” Indeed, the first volume’s editors Melanie Metzger, Steven Collins,
Valerie Dively, and Risa Shaw state, “Interpreters
and translators can be found working wherever individuals from diverse language
communities come together. We interpret and translate interviews so basic in
nature that outcomes might determine whether or not a family will have food on
the table. We interpret at conferences that are so technically and ethically
far-reaching that even the nature of nature itself, the human genome, might be
the subject of our efforts.”
The inaugural volume launches the series by focusing on
several unique facets of sign interpretation, including monologic situations and multiparty contexts.
“These chapters highlight interpreted encounters that incorporate spoken
languages (i.e., English and Spanish) and signed languages (i.e., American Sign
Language, Australian Sign Language)” explain the editors in their introduction.
“They include studies of interpreted medical, religious, and
educational encounters.” In short, “this volume examines some of the threads
with which interpreters and translators weave their work and, in so doing,
offers new insights into the processes and products of interpretation.”
Take advantage of your exclusive subscriber discount when you
order From Topic Boundaries to Omission.
Also, gain insight on the different strategies used by interpreters to indicate
topic shifts when interpreting into American Sign Language and when
transliterating. Read chapter six,
Marking Topic Boundaries in Signed
Interpretation and Transliteration, by Elizabeth Winston and Christine
Monikowski.
 CHOICE
gives high marks to
Many Ways to
Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities edited by Leila
Monaghan, Constanze Schmaling, Karen Nakamura, and Graham H. Turner in its
December 2003 issue. “This
new book comes at just the right time, showing through a compilation of works
from authors around the world that sign languages from various nations, while
different, can be a significantly unifying factor to the worldwide Deaf
community. Not only does this work present surprisingly parallel stories of the
different struggles and successes of the Deaf community throughout the world, it
suggests that in compiling the material for their work, the researchers may have
inadvertently set the stage for a more general understanding of world cultures
and for valuing diversity. If the Deaf communities of the world can value each
other, perhaps we all can.” The
full review
is available online. You can also read
chapter twelve
from Many Ways to Be Deaf and
order here.
The Second
International Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference,
which takes place on February 19-21, 2004,
is less than one month away. Diverse topics
of the presentations range from deafness as a socially constructed disease and
how societal values influence mainstream perception of the Deaf; an argument
analysis of technology and deafness; citizenship, group rights, and Deaf
communities in an era of global neo-liberalism; political participation among
deaf people; strange talk: Deaf culture, audism, and other discourses in the
late 20th century; the Deaf historian: in search of a role; deaf and
hard-of-hearing researchers
investigating the auditory sensory system; to the key question of whether deaf
academics network in a “Deaf World”
or in an “Academics World”?,
and many more. Registration continues through February 13, 2004. For more
information, go to:
http://deafacademics.gallaudet.edu/.
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