Sign Language Interpreting: The Relationship between Metalinguistic Awareness and the Production of Interpreting Omissions

From: Sign Language Studies | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Napier, Jemina; Barker, Roz | Copyright information

THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS the findings of a study that explored the linguistic coping strategics of Australian Sign Language (Auslan1)/English interpreters2 (Napier 2001). It is the first linguistic analysis of interpreters working between English and Auslan. Although many academic studies have focused on sign language interpreting, all of them concentrate on the strategies of interpreters working between English and American Sign Language (ASL) (such as Cokely 198$; Davis 1989, 2003; Roy 1989, 2...

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