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Friday, April 22, 2005
Interpreting Through a Different Lens
The Second Volume in the Studies in Interpretation
Series
The
Series continues with
volume 2,
Attitudes, Innuendo, and Regulators: Challenges of Interpretation, edited by
Melanie Metzger and Earl Fleetwood. The editors originally proposed
this series for students, practitioners, consumers, researchers, and educators,
both as an avenue for sharing information and for reading the findings of
other researchers.
Metzger and Fleetwood explain that, “Volume 1,
From Topic
Boundaries to Omission, was international in scope, containing chapters
devoted to a variety of topics, focusing on both monologic and interactive
interpretation of both spoken and signed languages. Volume 2 adds to this
eclectic theme, with studies of interpreting from scholars in the United States,
the United Kingdom, and Australia. Although volume 2 is divided into two
sections like the first volume, it looks at interpreting through a different
lens. The first section focuses on working conditions and the second on
interpreting practice.”
In Part I of Attitudes, Innuendo, and Regulators, Maree Madden examines
occupational overuse syndrome in signed language interpreters in Australia, an area often
overlooked in the realm of interpretation, and particularly signed language
interpretation. Lawrence Forestal follows by examining another aspect of
interpretation that is frequently overlooked: consumers. In Part II, author
Shaun Tray provides an in-depth description of innuendo and its function in
interaction, whereas Susan M. Mather and Frank J. Harrington focus on
interpretation specifically in educational contexts.
Read an excerpt from
What Are You Suggesting?
Interpreting Innuendo Between ASL and English by Shaun Tray, and
order Attitudes, Innuendo, and Regulators
at your exclusive subscriber discount of 20% off the regular price.
 In
Edmund Booth:
Deaf Pioneer, author Harry G. Lang follows the amazing career of Edmund
Booth and his equally amazing wife, Mary Ann Walworth Booth, in fascinating
detail. A recent
review in SIGNews recognized Lang’s significant work: “Edmund Booth: Deaf Pioneer is a superlative biography not only because it was
written by a fine historian, but it also receives loving care in the hands of a
deaf historian. Lang masterfully weaves the words of his subject with a
narrative that does not obscure the people it is about, but urges them forward
to tell their stories themselves with Lang serving as master of ceremonies. He
also lingers here and there in admiration of the hallmarks of nineteenth-century
American history, all of which bear the handprint of an unforgettable giant.”
Learn more about this American original and the pioneer days as seen through
Deaf eyes in chapter five,
“The Making of a Forty-Niner”, and
order
Edmund Booth.
 The
fourth volume in the
Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies series,
Sweet Bells Jangled,
edited by Judy Yaeger Jones and Jane E. Vallier, features more than 70 poems by
Civil War poet Laura Redden Searing. At first writing under the pseudonym Howard
Glyndon, this young deaf poet exploded onto the public scene with her patriotic
poems. But her poetry was more than that, exploring every aspect of life during
her time. In a
review from Disability Studies Quarterly, the reviewer notes, “Sweet
Bells Jangled is subtitled A Deaf Poet Restored, and the timing is
perfect to reintroduce the war poet to American political, literary, and
cultural life. The volume contains 82 selected poems, some that address themes
of war, gender, and disability in ways that shed an odd light on America’s
current state of affairs.” Read an excerpt
from the “epic poem” of the same name and
order Sweet Bells Jangled.
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