Signed Language Interpreting in the 21st Century : Foundations and Practice

241 Pages·2018·1.757 MB·

by  Len Roberson, Sherry Shaw

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Len Roberson
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LEN ROBERSON AND
SHERRY SHAW, Editors
Signed Language
Interpreting in the
21st Century
An Overview of the Profession
Gallaudet University Press
Washington, DC
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Gallaudet University Press
Washington, DC 20002
http://gupress.gallaudet.edu
© 2018 by Gallaudet University
All rights reserved. Published 2018.
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Roberson, Len. | Shaw, Sherry, editors.
Title: Signed language interpreting in the 21st century : an overview of the
profession / Len Roberson and Sherry Shaw, editors.
Description: Washington, DC : Gallaudet University Press, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018020068| ISBN 9781944838249 (hard cover :alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781944838256 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Interpreters for the deaf—United States. | Sign
language—Study and teaching—United States.
Classification: LCC HV2402 .S547 2018 | DDC 331.7/6141970802—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018020068
∞ This paper meets the requirements
of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper).
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CON TENTS
Contributors vii
1 Interpreting: An Overview 1
LEN ROBERSON
2 Historical Foundations of a Trust-Based Profession 23
CAROLYN BALL
3 Promoting the Use of Normative Ethics in the
Practice Profession of Community Interpreting 37
ROBYN K. DEAN AND ROBERT Q POLLARD, JR.
4 Aptitude and Disposition: Learned vs. Nurtured
Characteristics of Student Interpreters 65
SHERRY SHAW
5 Interpreting in Healthcare Settings: More Than
Needles, Blood, and Terminology 73
LAURIE SWABEY
6 Interpreting in Vocational Rehabilitation Contexts 93
LINDA K. STAUFFER
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7 Interpreting in Legal Contexts 115
CARLA M. MATHERS
8 Interpreting for People Who Are DeafBlind 131
SHERRY SHAW
9 Credentialing and Regulation of Signed
Language Interpreters 149
ANNA WITTER-MERITHEW
10 International Perspectives on Interpreting:
Isn’t Everything Just Like at Home? 173
DEBRA RUSSELL
Appendix: Objectives, Keywords, Questions, Activities 199
Index 221
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CON TRIBUTORS
Carolyn Ball Debra Russell
VRS Interpreting Institute Department of Educational
Salt Lake City, Utah Psychology
University of Alberta
Robyn K. Dean Edmonton, Canada
Department of American Sign
Language and Interpreting Sherry Shaw
Education Department of Exceptional, Deaf,
National Technical Institute and Interpreter Education
for the Deaf University of North Florida
Rochester, New York Jacksonville, Florida
Carla M. Mathers, Esq. Linda K. Stauffer
Hyattsville, MD Interpreter Education Program
University of Arkansas
Robert Q Pollard, Jr. Little Rock, Arkansas
Administrative Council
National Technical Institute Laurie Swabey
for the Deaf Department of American Sign
Rochester, New York Language and Interpreting
St. Catherine University
Len Roberson  St. Paul, Minnesota
Department of Exceptional, Deaf,
and Interpreter Education Anna Witter-Merithew
University of North Florida Project CLIMB
Jacksonville, Florida University of North Colorado
Greely, Colorado
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1
Interpreting: An Overview
LEN ROBERSON
Defining Terms: What Is It We Do?
An interpreter conveys what is said or signed in one language into another
language while maintaining the original intended message. Interpreting al-
lows two or more individuals who do not share a common language to
engage in a communicative interaction through a person who is bilingual.
Signed language interpreters render “a spoken or signed source language
message into a spoken or signed target language in real time” (International
Organization for Standardization, 2014, p. 1).
Within the field of signed language interpretation, interpreters not only
work between two or more languages, but also between different forms
of the same language. This process, working between different forms of
the same language, is referred to as transliterating. According to Winston
(1989), transliterating is “a specific form of sign language interpreting.” It
is the process of changing one form of an English message, either spoken
English or signed English, into the other form. Translation, although often
confused with interpreting, is a unique, albeit closely related, linguistic dis-
cipline. Translation is the process of converting a message in one printed
language to the same message in another printed language while retaining
all of the original meaning. Translators, like interpreters, work to not only
maintain the integrity of the message itself, but also to include cultural
understanding in the translation. There are times when signed language
interpreters perform a similar task known as sight translation, working from
a printed text into sign language. For example, an interpreter may have to
translate an intake document in a doctor’s office for a Deaf consumer who
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