Deaf Perspective on English to ASL Interpreting Repair Strategies
ID: | 4039 | |
Status: | Completed | |
Start date: | November | 2019 |
End Date: | October | 2020 |
Description
This study explores the Deaf perspective of five interpreting repairs utilized in
English to American Sign Language (ASL) interpreting events by means of
analyzing the group discussion amongst ten Deaf professional participants. This
paper discusses various interpreting repair categorizations and highlights the
heretofore gap in interpretation and translation research that considers the Deaf
consumer’s perspective of the effectiveness and various impacts resulting from
interpreting repairs. This study uses academic interpreting source samples and
involves only Deaf professionals and Deaf Ph.D. students from Gallaudet University
in order to examine the successfulness of English to ASL interpretations through the
lens of Deaf individuals in advanced and technical settings. The analysis of the
focus group data will focus on Deaf participants’ identification of interpreting
repairs, the change in interpersonal dynamics between interlocutors and
interpreters, and the feelings of trust in an interpreter and his/her ongoing
interpreting work. This study will be the first of its kind to address the growing
community of Deaf individuals in advanced academic and professional settings
along with their perceptions of accuracy and trust regarding common interpreting
repair strategies.