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Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Teaching Vital Communication Techniques
The Second Volume in the Interpreter Education
Series
Perhaps no academic discipline is emerging as rapidly or as meaningfully as the
study of sign language interpreting, especially in light of recent research that
confirms interpreters not simply as passive and objective translators, but
active, subjective participants in dynamic dialogues. At the head of this new
wave of research, Cynthia B. Roy offers
Advances in
Teaching Sign Language Interpreters, the second volume in the
Interpreter Education
series.
The new volume begins where the first in the series
Innovative Practices in
Teaching Sign Language Interpreters left off. Series editor Roy has
collected select essays on the best, new interpreter teaching techniques by an
eminent assembly of the field’s leading experts. Topics discussed include: revising curricula in the new
century, how to teach observation techniques to interpreters, how discourse
mapping can be considered the Global Positioning System of translation, ways to
handle the challenge of referring expressions for interpreting students,
turn-taking and turn-yielding in meetings with Deaf and hearing participants,
retraining interpreters in the art of telephone interpreting, and much more.
Read the
foreword and Robert G. Lee’s contribution,
From Theory to
Practice: Making the Interpreting Process Come Alive in the Classroom,
now available to newsletter subscribers in its entirety. Subscribers also have
the exclusive opportunity of
ordering
Advances in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters at 20% off the regular
price.
 A
recent review in
CHOICE Magazine
lauds Hannah Joyner’s
From Pity
Pride: Growing Up Deaf in the Old South as “well-written” and
“recommended.” Hannah Joyner depicts the history of young, wealthy men in the
19th-century South who were barred from high posts because they were deaf. These
young Deaf men, commonly referred to as “the peculiar misfortune,” formed their
own societies that, after the Civil War, included deaf northerners. In striking detail,
Joyner portrays the circumstances of these so-called victims
of this “misfortune” and makes it clear that Deaf people in the North also
endured prejudice. She also explains how the cultural rhetoric of paternalism
and dependency in the South codified a stringent system of oppression and
hierarchy that left little room for self-determination for Deaf southerners.
Read more of this historical account in chapter seven,
“With the Eyes to
Hear and the Hands to Speak”, and
order From Pity to Pride.
 Jan
Branson and Don Miller’s
Damned for
Their Difference: The Cultural Construction of Deaf People as Disabled
offers a well-founded explanation of the sources of discrimination against Deaf people
came to be through its discursive exploration of the cultural, social, and
historical contexts of these attitudes and behavior toward deaf people,
especially in Great Britain. The
Journal of Social
History recognized this critical work in a recent review noting, “[The authors] have written an
important and provocative book that contributes to the growing debate in
disability history about the nature of difference and how it is culturally
defined.”
The review concludes that, “By engaging us in the debate,
Branson and Miller make us think more deeply about what is
‘normal’ in our own society.”
Learn how the majority societies around the
world viewed people who were “different” by reading chapter two,
“The Domestication
of Difference: The Classification, Segregation, and Institutionalization of
Unreason”, and
order Damned for Their Difference.
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