#Interpreters

A teenage TikTok-er pointed out that there were no ASL interpreters at the debate last night, which means ~600,000 deaf Americans were not afforded the chance to participate in their
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Morning!Hope you're all doing well today. First, a bit more about strategies to exert control over interpreting processes. One other strategy to do so in addition to the ones I
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Wolf — his nickname when serving with the U.S. military in the early 2000s — became an interpreter because, he says, it was just "the right thing to do." But
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I think it's time for some straight talk about #xl8 and #1nt agencies and how their work matters but not in the way people might think. This is based on
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Originalism is quite simple, which is precisely why postmodernists and progressive academics attack it: when you take the proper (and only truly coherent) linguistic approach to interpretation, it becomes far
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Hi all! I’m Maartje and I’ll be curating Translation Talk this week. Quick bio: I’m a lecturer/senior researcher @HU_Utrecht living in Belgium. I’m also affiliated to @HeriotWattBSL as
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#NewThread - about the relationships between interpreter training institutions / trainers and the "market"... 1) What are these relationships like? 2) What are the risks if they get too close
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Since we've ended up talking about #interpretinghistory today, and the stories & biographies of #interpreters that made it, I thought it would be a good idea to compile here, in
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Strange isn’t it that a Communication Consultant requires interpreters, translators for a comment that he made or says he did not make but was misrepresented by news agencies that carried
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This is cultural humility in action. My friend is a Deaf graduate student, well into their 20s. As healthcare professionals, we are responsible for actively participating in and ensuring the
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Precisely this. A lot of the conversation has been diverted onto broadcasters when we should actually be discussing the Government’s obligations under equality law. If #BSL interpreters are there in
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Trans Rights Protest – CancelledIt is with an incredibly heavy heart that I must announce that the Trans Rights Protest on 5th September is cancelled.On 3rd September we liaised with
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If you put aside all the other political and organizational divisions and just look at the conventions themselves, I think one detail is extremely telling: (thread) - One party had
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A thread on race and sign language interpreting for my fellow white deaf people. Dr. Ford highlighted the centrality of race in the work of black interpreters. And how important
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There is a day in Iraq in 2006 I can remember more vividly than any day before or since, short of my wedding and my three children being born. It
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i’m so happy with how much progress i’ve made with learning asl... i honestly didn’t think i would be able to bc of how bad my arthritis is but i’ve
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