Sign Language Interpreting: Deconstructing the Myth of Neutrality / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9781563680748 Publisher: Gallaudet University Press Publication date: 03/11/1999 Edition description: 1 Pages: 216 Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d) As with all professional interpreters, sign language interpreters strive to achieve the proper protocol of complete objectivity and accuracy in their translation without influencing the interaction in any way. Yet, Melanie Metzger's significant work Sign Language Interpreting: Deconstructing the Myth of Neutrality demonstrates clearly that the ideal of an interpreter as a neutral language conduit does not exist. Metzger offers evidence of this disparity by analyzing two video-taped ASL-English interpreted medical interviews, one an interpreter-trainee mock interview session, and the other an actual encounter between a deaf client and a medical professional.Sign Language Interpreting relies upon an interactional sociolinguistic approach to ask fundamental questions regarding interpreter neutrality. First do Interpret