Download or read book Persistence of African American black Signed Language Interpreters in the United States written by Erica West-Oyedele and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Sign Language Translation and Interpreting written by Christopher Stone and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook provides the first comprehensive overview of sign language translation and interpretation from around the globe and looks ahead to future directions of research. Divided into eight parts, the book covers foundational skills, the working context of both the sign language translator and interpreter, their education, the sociological context, work settings, diverse service users, and a regional review of developments. The chapters are authored by a range of contributors, both deaf and hearing, from the Global North and South, diverse in ethnicity, language background, and academic discipline. Topics include the history of the profession, the provision of translation and interpreting in different domains and to different populations, the politics of provision, and the state of play of sign language translation and interpreting professions across the globe. Edited and authored by established and new voices in the field, this is the essential guide for advanced students and researchers of translation and interpretation studies and sign language.
Download or read book Interpreting While Black written by Folami M. Ford and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study the lived reality of African American ASL-English interpreters is examined through the lens of hermeneutic phenomenology. The theoretical frameworks that undergirds this study are Black feminist thought, critical race theory, and intersectionality. Using Seidman's (2013) three-interview protocol, five African American ASL-English interpreters, of different ages and backgrounds, were interviewed to explore their lived reality further. Upon analysis the findings reveal seven overarching emergent themes: 1) the Other, 2) race as a liability, 3) race as an asset, 4) social group identities, 5) the NAOBI experience, 6) African American interpreters, and 7) African American Deaf community. The data in this study reveal the resiliency African American interpreters exhibit when confronting the pernicious effects of racism in their personal and professional lives by drawing upon their cultural heritage and community connections. For African American interpreters the phenomenon of interpreting while Black suggests that when on an interpreting assignment that race can be both an asset and a liability. The data further illustrates that spaces of, by, and for people of color are essential in individual and collective liberation. This study adds to an emerging literature about the lived experience of African American signed language interpreters in the United States. Through centering African American ASL-English interpreters this study aligns with the work of scholars within Black feminist thought (Davis, 1981; hooks, 1984; Collins, 2009; and Lorde, 2007) that seek to resist hegemonic Whiteness through interrogating grand historical narratives and replacing them with narratives that center Blackness. This study also points to the need for further scholarship that centers interpreters of color in order to contribute towards a social justice orientation within the interpreting profession.
Download or read book Thinking with an Accent written by Pooja Rangan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Everyone speaks with an accent, but what is an accent? Thinking with an Accent introduces accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception that includes looking, listening, acting, reading, and thinking. This volume convenes scholars of media, literature, education, law, language, and sound to theorize accent as an object of inquiry, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice. Accent does more than just denote identity: from algorithmic bias and corporate pedagogy to migratory poetics and the politics of comparison, accent mediates global economies of discrimination and desire. Accents happen between bodies and media. They negotiate power and invite attunement. These essays invite the reader to think with an accent—to practice a dialogical and multimodal inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care.
Download or read book Navigating Language Variety written by Nicole Shambourger and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African American Black Deaf hard of Hearing African American Black Interpreters transliterators written by Bishop State Community College. Division of Humanities American Sign Language/Interpreter Training Programs and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Topics in Signed Language Interpreting written by Terry Janzen and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LC number: 2005050067
Download or read book Signed Language Interpreting written by Lorraine Leeson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signed language interpreting continues to evolve as a field of research. Stages of professionalization, opportunities for education and the availability of research vary tremendously among different parts of the world. Overall there is continuing hunger for empirically founded, theoretically sound accounts of signed language interpreting to inform practice, pedagogy and the development of the profession. This volume provides new insights into current aspects of preparation, practice and performance of signed language interpreting, drawing together contributions from three continents. Contributors single out specific aspects of relevance to the signed language interpreting profession. These include preparation of interpreters through training, crucial for the development of the profession, with emphasis on sound educational programmes that cover the needs of service users and the wide-ranging skills expected from practitioners. Resources, such as terminology databases, are vital tools for interpreters to prepare successfully for events. Practice oriented, empirical investigations of strategies of interpreters are paramount not only to increase theoretical understanding of interpreter performance, but to provide reference points for practitioners and students. Alongside tackling linguistic and pragmatic challenges, interpreters also face the challenge of dealing with broader issues, such as handling occupational stress, an aspect which has so far received little attention in the field. At the same time, fine-grained assessment mechanisms ensure the sustainability of quality of performance. These and other issues are covered by the eighteen contributors to this volume, ensuring that the collection will be essential reading for academics, students and practitioners.
Download or read book In Between The Social Organization of American Sign Language English Interpreters in the Medical Context written by Laurie R. Shaffer and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Structural changes in the United States social, political, and economic landscape have triggered changes in institutional practices, and the sphere of healthcare is no exception. The passage of legislation such as HIPAA and the movement to the computerization and technologizing of medical practice has changed how things arc done in the medical context. Other pieces of legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Affordable Care Act have changed the landscape in healthcare as well, particularly for Speakers of Languages Other Than English and those that are deaf. These federal mandates mean attending to not only patients' medical concerns, but also to their linguistic needs. With these mandates, there is an increased presence of both spoken and signed language interpreters in medical facilities, providing interpreting services during a variety of medical encounters from wellness checkups to surgery. This increase work of American Sign Language-English interpreters and illustrates how the work of interpreters is socially organized, how the local moment is actually orchestrated by institutions of power and how interpreters' local actions perpetuate or resist the pull of various institutional forces. This project is designed to make the invisible visible, giving interpreters insight into what social institutions are penetrating their work in the medical context. Increased awareness for interpreters can lead to more critical thinking about work processes that may or may not empower them, the patients, and the medical professionals as they work together to create quality healthcare. of demand for interpreters in healthcare environments has provided the field of academic inquiry a multitude of avenues to use to examine what interpreters do. Most studies of interpreting are based on when an interpreter is actively interpreting, yet in the lived experience of the working interpreter, there are times when she is not interpreting but instead is "in-between'. The in-between provides an entry point for this institutional ethnographic project that uncovers the structures, constraints, and resulting activity that the social, political, and economic institutions produce in an interpreting event. The project examines questions of how various social institutions intersect with the everyday." --Abstract
Download or read book Stories of Leaving A Multiple Case Study of the Attrition of Novice American Sign Language English Interpreters written by Dawn Marie Wessling and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication access is a legislated right for deaf people in many settings in the United States; however, the number of professional signed language interpreters does not meet the demand for services (NCIEC, 2009b; NIEC, 2015). One factor of the demand-supply imbalance may be attributed to the number of individuals who exit the interpreting profession at an early stage in their career while still novice interpreters. Using the theoretical framework of attraction, selection, and attrition (ASA) from applied and organizational psychology (Schneider, 1987), along with person-organization fit (PO Fit) as described by Caplan (2011), I examined attrition of individuals from early professional interpreting practice. I surmised that throughout the cycle of ASA, individuals and the profession are continuously examining dimensions of PO Fit and, for some, disruptions arise in the conceptualization of fit. The results of this multiple case study will increase understanding of attrition in the signed language interpreting profession and may lead to a set of strategies to help individuals assess their fit with the profession. Further, the findings may assist the members of the interpreting profession to develop ways to address issues of fit when barriers arise. Critically, retention of signed language interpreters may result in a greater number of available practitioners to provide communication access for the deaf community. -- Abstract
Download or read book Signing Identity written by Shauna Lee Eddy and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dissertation interrogates issues of national cultural identity articulated in poetic discourse through an exploration of late 20th Century Deaf (American Sign Language/ASL), African American, and Chicano poetic language and products. Further, I investigate the effects of various translation theories and methods on publically articulated national identities found in poetry and poetic language. The project as a whole poses these questions: What does it mean to not hear when we traditionally conceive of poetry as voice? What happens to poetry as genre when we add a body of poetic literature that is signed rather than voiced? What constitutes U.S. literature? How can we conceive translation as a tool for resisting hegemony rather than as a tool for reinforcing hegemony? What role does translation play in U.S. literature and in U.S. literary pedagogy? What role should it play? In answer, I offer new metaphors for encountering and discussing alterity and a new paradigm for translation"--Abstract.
Download or read book The Origin of Knowledge and Interest in Interpreting written by Jonathan Roman and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "High schools across the United States, located in a range of communities, offer American Sign Language (ASL) courses as a foreign language option. Some are in 'disadvantaged communities'; a school area where there is a lack of economic resources present for students to benefit from (McKillip, M. E. E., Godfrey, K. E, & Rawls, A, 2012). As terminology would suggest, the inverse of that are schools in advantaged communities. Also in the past, there have been BIPOC recruitment efforts for associates and bachelor level signed language interpreter training programs (ITP) by organizations like the National Interpreter Education Center (NIEC). But to date, neither research has been conducted concerning whether or not interpreting is presented as a career option in the high school ASL classes nor to compare the differences in exposure to this career option among advantaged versus disadvantaged communities. Research shows that these disadvantaged communities have a larger population of BIPOC students, such as the Rochester City School District, where 90.87% of students are identified as BIPOC (Rochester City School District, 2019). Also, while there is a need for more interpreters in general, according to the Registry Interpreters of the Deaf (RID) published statistics, people of color are significantly underrepresented in the interpreting workforce (RID 2019). At the Rochester Institute of Technology's National Technical Institute for the Deaf (RIT/NTID), there are programs in the Department of Access Services (DAS) working to increase the pool of qualified interpreters. The Apprentice program has an open recruiting process while the Randleman program focuses on interpreters of color. These programs recruit interpreters who have already completed an ITP or are transitioning into professional interpreting careers, however there aren't any recruitment programs for prospective interpreter students. To address this lack of data on how individuals begin their interest in interpreting, a quantitative survey was given to working interpreters in the Rochester area focused on the question: Is there a difference between the origin of knowledge and interest in interpreters of color, compared to white interpreters?"--Abstract.
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Download or read book Dark Language written by Loren L. Qualls and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Dark Language, Loren Qualls discusses how the post-rebellion genre of fiction takes a critical examination of African Americans after the Civil Rights Movement, when African Americans crossed the color barrier into every aspect of American culture. Yet the question remains: Who did the slave become? The middle class. This neo-African American is born with liberties that their predecessor was not afforded. The post-rebellion genre of African American literature comes from the freedom in knowing choice, but this genre expresses the consistent anxiety, paranoia and struggle for an identity and way of expression. A characteristic that differentiates this genre from other periods in African American history is its detachment from traditional icons and ideologies of African American culture. The generation that perpetuates this characteristic does not exhibit the same rudiment in religious sacrament or a common commitment to ideals of equality. Although African Americans have been bound by the goal of liberty of the individual, they fail in attempts at establishing group identification through any other mass movement or politics. The genre examines the African American being exploited and exploiting themselves and exploiting others all based on the concept of race."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Best of Emerge Magazine written by George E. Curry and published by One World/Ballantine. This book was released on 2003 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best articles from 10 years of Emerge magazine, a influential magazine for black journalists.
Download or read book The Development of the Sign Language Interpreter System in the United States written by Hideharu Uemura and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Signed Language Interpreting in the 21st Century written by Len Roberson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
