From Topic Boundaries to Omission

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From Topic Boundaries to Omission offers contributions by American and Australian researchers who examine several facets of signed languages interpreting. Claudia Angelelli's study confirms that conference, courtroom, and medical interpretation should no longer be seen as a two-party conversation with an "invisible" interpreter , but rather as a three-party conversation in which the interpreter plays an active role. Laura M. Sanheim defines different turn-taking elements in a medical setting as two overlapping conversation, one between the patient and the interpreter and the other between the interpreter and the medical professional.

In her analysis of discourse at a Deaf revival service, Mary Ann Richey demonstrates how Deaf presenters and audiences interact even in a formal settings, creating special challenges for interpreters, Jemina Napier shares her findings in the nature and occurrence of omissions by interpreters in Australian Sign Language and English exchanges. Elizabeth Winston and Christine Monikowski provide research in the different strategies used by interpreters to indicate topic shifts when interpreting into American Sign Language and when transliterating.This first volume in the Studies in Interpretation series concludes with Bruce Sofinski's analysis of nonmanual elements used by interpreters in sign language transliteration.