Interpreters

A few weeks ago, I interviewed Mrs. Wendy Darling. As a graduate of Troy University in the Interpreter Training Program, Mrs. Darling has worked in multiple interpreting settings since beginning her career. I focused my interview with Mrs. Wendy Darling on her current setting: Vocational Rehabilitation. In addition to my questions about this setting, I asked her about vicarious trauma. Before coming to Troy, I was unaware of Vocational Rehabilitation as a type of setting for interpreting; my…

is still in its infancy stages of professionalization and standardization. The role of an interpreter originated as volunteers or family members who knew enough to communicate basic information. This paper will briefly look at the developing field of interpreting. A new wave of educated and trained interpreters are entering the field and creating new standards and practice norms. The idea of team interpreters, why they are superior, when they are needed and a standard of practice established,…

An American Sign Language (ASL) Interpreter holds the responsibility of facilitating communication for Deaf or hard of hearing (HOH) individuals in a setting involving a hearing, or not deaf, person. Interpreters must be fluent in both English and ASL in order to effectively facilitate communication. Interpreters work for their Deaf client but also work for the hearing client as well. Interpreting is not just about serving the deaf person and making sure they understand, it is making sure both…

The Interpreter – Summary Plácido Ferraz Junior The book is about Silvia Broome who is an interpreter at the United Nations in New York City. She is from an African Country called Matobo. The story starts with a scene in Matobo, where two men were killed by two little boys using military weapons. The group had three men and the third was inside their car when the murders happened. This “third” person survived. Sometime after, Silvia Broome was leaving the United Nations when she realized that…

At a professional interpreter conference in 2013 a presenter stated, "The interpreter is the sole holder of all information in an interpreted encounter." The information that the interpreter holds is linked to the language and culture of the parties involved. Sociolinguistics is the study of how language interactions between members of social networks and between different social networks. This field also studies how language and culture are perceived by the interlocutors or the audience of the…

Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Interpreter of Maladies” In the short story of Jhumpa Lahiri entitled, “The Interpreter of Maladies,” the theme of loss of communication is seen through various stages and instances. Communication is used as a tool to further connections between individuals. In the case that it is lost, there could be miscommunication and misunderstanding between those involved. In the story, the theme encompasses various aspects of the lives of both Mr. Kapasi, the interpreter of maladies,…

The Registry of Interpreters of the Deaf (RID) complied information into this article about educational interpreting. This article gives great back ground information about the qualifications, skills, certification needed, the interpreter’s role, professional conduct, duties of the interpreter may face, briefly describes the laws in place for education, and covers what an Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA) is. This article is a great overview of the standard practice of…

Advice for Interpreters: Timing Many people have said “in humor, timing is everything.” Salvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering (2011) test this theory to see if timing affects how people tell jokes and how those jokes are received by others. They examined if presenters paused or spoke faster when saying the punchline. Their findings for the pauses that occurred in a joke were longer at the beginning of the joke than the slight pause that happened before the punchline. Attardo and Pickering…

Losing yourself to society In the novel Bread Givers and the collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies the overarching theme of immigration is explored through assimilation, identity and Americanization. The ideas that the two texts explore are conveyed through the language and character in both stories. In Bread Givers and Interpreter of Maladies, immigration forces assimilation and Americanization upon immigrants, which alters their true identity. In the two texts, assimilation…

some form of communication is needed. Without it, relationships can turn to ruin. In the following short stories, the relationships lack communication which lead to destruction. Throughout A Temporary Matter, When Mr. Pirzada Came To Dine, and Interpreter of Maladies, Lahiri suggests the themes of miscommunication and unexpressed thoughts which illustrates the importance of communication in continuing a relationship. In A Temporary Matter, the characters relationship suffers due to the fact…