Reading between the signs
Subtitle: intercultural communication for sign language interpreters
By: Anna Mindess ; with Thomas K. Holcomb, Daniel Langholtz, and Priscilla Moyers ; foreword by Sharon Neumann Solow
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Intercultural Press, A Nicholas Brealey Publishing Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9781941176023; 9781941176030
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Interpreters for the deaf; Communication and culture; Intercultural communication; Deaf; Means of communication; American Sign Language; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language; EDUCATION / Special Education / Physical Disabilities; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions; HEALTH & FITNESS / Hearing & Speech
Description: "In Reading between the Signs, Anna Mindess provides a new perspective on a poorly understood culture, American Deaf culture. With the collaboration of three distinguished Deaf consultants, Mindess explores the implication of cultural differences at the intersection of the Deaf and hearing worlds. This new, third edition of her classic and best-selling text covers several new topics of great interest to activists and interpreters, including teaming with Deaf interpreters and cultivating a "Deaf heart." It is used in Deaf studies courses and interpreter training programs worldwide.Anna Mindess has been a Sign Language interpreter for more than thirty years. She lives in Berkeley, California. "--

"An essential and invaluable tool for sign language interpreters, students, and everyone wishing to understand American Deaf culture. Reading Between the Signs, Third Edition provides a new perspective on American Deaf culture. With collaboration of three distinguished Deaf consultants, Mindess explores the implications of cultural differences at the intersection of the Deaf and hearing worlds. Previous editions of Reading Between the Signs have been used in interpreter training programs worldwide. New material includes a section on legal interpreting and the emerging area of hearing interpreters teaming with Deaf interpreters"--