Sign Language Interpreting: Deconstructing the Myth of Neutrality

by Melanie Metzger

In her new, significant work, Melanie Metzger 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 videotaped 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 asks fundamental questions regarding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1563680742
• ISBN13: 9781563680748
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"