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Prosodic Markers and Utterance Boundaries in American Sign Language Interpretation (Paperback)
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Prosodic Markers and Utterance Boundaries in American Sign Language Interpretation (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Interpretation, 5
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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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