"The Fifth Volume in the Studies in Interpretation Series"
In interpreting, professionals must be able to convey to their
clients the rhythm, stress, and length of phrases used by the
communicating parties to indicate their respective emotional
states. Such subtleties, which can signal sarcasm and irony or
whether a statement is a question or a command, are defined in
linguistics as prosody. Brenda Nicodemus's new volume, the fifth in
the Studies in Interpretation series, discusses the prosodic
features of spoken and signed languages, and reports the findings
of her groundbreaking research on prosodic markers in ASL
interpretation.
In her study, Nicodemus videotaped five highly skilled interpreters
as they interpreted a spoken English lecture into ASL. Fifty Deaf
individuals viewed the videotaped interpretations and indicated
perceived boundaries in the interpreted discourse. These identified
points were then examined for the presence of prosodic markers that
might be responsible for the perception of a boundary. "Prosodic
Markers and Utterance Boundaries "reports on the characteristics of
the ASL markers, including their frequency, number, duration, and
timing. Among other findings, the results show that interpreters
produce an average of seven prosodic markers at each boundary
point. The markers are produced both sequentially and
simultaneously and under conditions of highly precise timing.
Further, the results suggest that the type of prosodic markers used
by interpreters are both systematic and stylistic.
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