Ebook: Advances in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters (The Interpreter Education Series, Vol. 2)
Author: Cynthia B. Roy
- Genre: Education
- Series: The Interpreter Education Series Vol. 2
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
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In other chapters, Laurie Swabey proposes ways to handle the challenge of referring expressions for interpreting students, and Melanie Metzger describes how to learn and recognize what interpreters do in interaction. Jemina Napier contributes information on training interpreting students to identify omission potential. Mieke Van Herreweghe discusses turn-taking and turn-yielding in meetings with Deaf and hearing participants in her contribution. Anna-Lena Nilsson defines "false friends," or how contextually incorrect use of facial expressions with certain signs in Swedish Sign Language can be detrimental influences on interpreters. The final chapter by Kyra Pollitt and Claire Haddon recommends retraining interpreters in the art of telephone interpreting, completing Advances in Teaching Sign Language Interpreters as the new authoritative volume in this vital communication profession.