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Barbara Shaffer, Emerging Research, The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2018, Pages 106–107, https://doi.org/10.1093/deafed/enx038
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This volume contains 10 selected submissions from the inaugural International Symposium on Signed Language Interpreting and Translation Research held at Gallaudet University. The first chapter, by one of the keynote speakers from the symposium, Eileen Forestal, reminds us, or rather cautions us, that deaf perspectives have been sorely lacking in interpreting research to date. It concludes with a call for a fully inclusive partnership with the deaf community’s scholars. Many of the chapters that follow convey a perspective on interpreting that synergistically reinforces Forestal’s passionate plea.
Chapter 2, authored by Silvia Del Vecchio, Marcello Cardarelli, Fabiana De Simone, and Giulia Petitta, focusing on the Italian deaf context, emphasizes the relationships among all of the discourse participants, including the interpreter. Here the authors discuss the interpreter as a visible third party in interpreted interactions, and how, at times, direct participation and negotiation (such as asking for clarification or accommodation) is necessary. This phenomenon makes interpretation quite distinct from traditional translation, a point touched upon but not fully developed within this chapter.
