The other morning for the Master of Arts in Interpreting Studies, I read a quotation of Danica Seleskovitch’s “Théorie du Sens” or “Meaning Model” and I’m not sure it applies to sign language interpreters who interpret contact language between English speakers and bilingual English/ASL deaf signers. After all, it is not that most deaf people don’t know English; it is that they can’t hear it. The only time I do what Seleskovitch describes is when I’m interpreting for ASL monolinguals, and even in their ASL there is often some English. Is there any “pure” ASL that we can apply the Meaning Model to?
Category: Interpreting
Posts about Interpreting/ interpretation, translating/ translation, and transliterating/ transliteration
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ASL video Re: The 10,000 Hour Rule
Relating how I became an interpreter in 18 months to the chapter “The 10,000 Hour Rule” from the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. What is your “10,000 Hour” story?
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Re: Interpreters receiving feedback even when it’s mean or vague
A video response to Mikey Krajnak’s video about ways that interpreters accept and deal with feedback. I relate my experience in the MA in Interpreting Studies program at WOU and what I’m learning about effective and nonjudgmental ways interpreters can give each other feedback, including Demand-Control Schema, Observation-Supervision, and Case Conferencing. I also ask Mikey what he thinks about whether “the customer is always right” and how to give good customer service as an interpreting professional.
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Master of Arts in Interpreting Studies & interpreter feedback
My reflections after the first week of our two-week face-to-face session (or colloquium). I learned a lot, and I share what I learned about feedback as a follow-up to the video I posted about receiving unsolicited feedback last week. Topics include Demand-Control Schema, Talking about “The Work,” practitioner-centered approach, professional discussion, case conferencing, listening, observation/supervision, nonjudgmental inquiry, guided self-discovery, etc.
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Welcome & responses for new interpreting student vlogger
I met an interpreting student named Fernando Mariani Colón on Google+ recently. He started vlogging just the other day, and he requested feedback on his first vlog and responses to a question on his second vlog. So, here is my welcome, feedback, and (further down) response to Fernando.
And here is Fernando’s second vlog and my response:
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Daniel Greene 