by Jonathan Downie Recently, I attended the Engaging Research Day at Heriot-Watt University. Not only did I get to take home a nice certificate and hear Graham Turner scoop first place (I’ll beat him next year) but I got to hear stories of how academics of all stripes are going out and interacting with the […]
Category: Interpreting
Why Interpreters Should Forget About Quality (and concentrate on value)
by Jonathan Downie How can we define “quality” in interpreting? What does it mean to be a “good interpreter”? Before I answer that, let me tell you a little story. I was doing chuchotage interpreting at a wood industry conference. The first plenary talk was given by an economist. This particular economist crammed as many […]
Call for papers! Special issue on Signed Language Interpreting and Translation
Translation and Interpreting Studies Special Issue Signed Language Interpreting and Translation CALL FOR PAPERS Guest Editors Laurie Swabey, St. Catherine University Brenda Nicodemus, Gallaudet University Translation and Interpreting Studies (John Benjamins) invites proposals for a special thematic issue on signed language interpretation and translation to be published in April of 2018. The editors aim to […]
2nd Year General Linguistics Poster Session: Bridging the gap between UG and PG research
by Nicola Bermingham and Sara Brennan A 2nd Year General Linguistics Poster Session took place on 18th and 19th February in LINCS. This was the first poster session for 2nd year General Linguistics students and the results were impressive, to say the least. This was part of the students’ assessment and the topics were chosen […]
Intensive Interpreting Practice – Easter Course 2015 !
In April this year Heriot-Watt University will be running an Intensive Interpreting Practice CPD course. The course is designed for: Interpreting students who are in the middle of their training and wish to improve both their English skills and their Interpreting skills. Professional interpreters who would like to improve their English, either with the intention of making it […]
3rd Edinburgh Interpreting Research Summer School!
The 3rd Edinburgh Interpreting Research Summer School (EIRSS) will take place from 22 – 26 June 2015 ! EIRSS 2015 offers intensive research training for existing and future scholars in any field of Interpreting and will include lectures from our Guest Speaker Claudia Monacelli as well as leading Heriot-Watt Speakers, including Professor Ian Mason. It will be […]
Collaboration and innovation to explore sign language brokering experiences
by Jemina Napier Click here to see this post in British Sign Language Previous blogs have reported how I am conducting research on experiences of language brokering in the Deaf community, which looks at the communication support that both deaf and hearing PDFs (People from Deaf Families) give to their deaf parents to communicate with hearing […]
How do you teach note-taking for consecutive interpreting?
It’s one of those ‘how long is a piece of string’ questions. Consecutive interpreting involves listening to a speech delivered in one language in front of an international audience, taking notes and then giving the same speech in another language, making sure it is as close to the original as possible in terms of content, […]
Sign Language Interpreting on Chinese television: Some progress and much to expect
by Xiao Zhao From November 15th, 2014, Qixia television station in Nanjing, Jiangsu province started to provide sign language interpreting in the weekly news programme Xiao Rui Shuo Xin Wen (Xiao Rui (name of the hearing news presenter) Presents the News). The programme received immediate applause from the deaf community all over the country and […]
Interpreting Needs Troublemakers
Author: Jonathan Downie I was in London on Saturday for a meeting and I got chatting to some fellow interpreters about the ways that research is challenging how we think about and practise interpreting. Here in LINCS, for example, Robyn Dean is arguing for us to fundamentally shift how we think about ethics, Penny Karanasiou […]