Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters

by Hauser, Peter C.

• ISBN13: 9781563683688
• ISBN10: 1563683687
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Gallaudet Univ Pr

Summary

The Fourth Volume in the Studies in Interpretation Series As the result of recent, increased availability of interpreter services, the number of deaf professionals in education, law, medicine, and other fields has grown enormously. This explosion requires a reexamination of issues of confidentiality, ethics, and others related to interpretating for these professionals.Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters: A New Paradigmdefines a new model that depends upon strong partnerships between deaf experts and their interpreters. Editors Peter C. Hauser, Karen L. Finch, and Angela B. Hauser have called upon more than a score of widely respected researchers to discuss the new dynamics of interpreting for deaf professionals. Divided into two parts, this volume first delineates Designated Interpreting, in which interpreters team with deaf professionals to advance a shared point of view. Chapters in this section include the linguistics of the partnership (Look-Pause-Nod); the varying attitudes and behavior of deaf professionals and their interpreters; interaction in the work-related social setting to ensure equal participation; interpreting as affected by conversational style and gender factors; academic and educational interpreting for deaf academics; and adjusting company policies with professional interpreter guidelines. Part II, Deaf Professional and Designated Interpreter Partnerships, offers relevant examples of interpreting for deaf professionals in real estate, contemporary art, medicine, business administration, education, mental health, film-making, and information technology. These anecdotal chapters demonstrate the critical complexity of the relationships between professionals and interpreters, a revolutionary transformation that will be appreciated by interpreter preparation programs, interpreters, and their clients alike.

Author Biography

Peter C. Hauser is Assistant Professor in the Department of Research and Teacher Education at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester, NY.

Karen L. Finch is an instructor in the Department of American Sign Language and Interpreting Education at  the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester, NY.

Angela B. Hauser is a staff interpreter at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Designated Interpreting
The Deaf Professional-Designated Interpreter Model	p. 3
Look-Pause-Nod: A Linguistic Case Study of a Deaf Professional and Interpreters Working Together	p. 22
Attitudes and Behaviors of Deaf Professionals and Interpreters	p. 43
Interpreting in the Work-Related Social Setting: How Not to Trump Your Partner's Ace	p. 58
Interpreters, Conversational Style, and Gender at Work	p. 66
Academic and Educational Interpreting from the Other Side of the Classroom: Working with Deaf Academics	p. 81
Walking the Fine Line	p. 106
Deaf Professional and Designated Interpreter Partnerships
Cheesecloth and Cognitive Real Estate: Visual Language Brought to the Contemporary Art Scene	p. 131
The Other Side of the Curtain	p. 143
Designated Interpreter-Deaf Chief Executive Officer: Professional Interdependence	p. 165
Hearts, Minds, Hands: A Dream Team for Mental Health	p. 180
Lights, Camera ... Interpretation!	p. 196
Timeliness, Technology, Terminology, and Tact: Challenging Dynamics in Information Technology Environments	p. 210
Contributors	p. 225
Index	p. 227
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