Sign language interpreting and interpreter education
Subtitle: directions for research and practice
By: edited by Marc Marschark ... [et al.]
Contributors: Marschark, Marc
Series: Perspectives on deafness
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Interpreters for the deaf -- Training of -- United States; Sign language -- Study and teaching -- United States; Deaf -- Means of communication -- United States
Description: In the same sense that cross-linguistic research has led to a better understanding of how language affects development, cross-modal research allows us to study acquisition of language in the absence of a spoken phonology. The contributors to this volume are leading scholars and researchers of the acquisition and development of sign languages, and provide cogent summaries of what is known about early gestural development, interactive processes adapted to visual communication, and the processes of semantic, syntactic, and pragmatic development in sign. They address theoretical as well as applied questions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index