Encounters with Reality: 1,001 Interpreter Scenarios - Softcover

Cartwright, Brenda E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0916883507 ISBN 13: 9780916883508

Publisher: Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Incorporated, 2009

Synopsis

Encounters with Reality, 2nd Edition, contains 1,001 real-life scenarios that are sad, funny, perplexing and sometimes downright scary. It builds on the first edition by including responses and perspectives from experienced interpreters, deaf consumers, interpreter training program students, certified deaf interpreters, and successful National Interpreter Certification (NIC) candidates. Additionally, this edition provides a chapter dedicated to challenges in interpreting addressed by Demand-Control Schema Analysis. This groundbreaking text serves as an essential resource for sign language interpreters by providing the foundation for discucssion in the classroom or among colleagues.

About this title

About the Author

Brenda Cartwright is an experienced interpreter, teacher and presenter. She is the Director of the Sign Language Interpreter Program at Lansing Community College. She holds a Comprehensive Skills Certificate (CSC), Certificate of Transliteration (CT), and Certificate of Interpretation (CI) from the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.

Edition details

• Publisher: Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0916883507
• ISBN 13: 9780916883508
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 411