In healthcare, the accuracy of interpretation is the most critical component of safe and effective communication between providers and patients in medical settings characterized by language and cultural barriers. Although medical education should pre...

Deafened at the age of six, Claire Blatchford was educated orally with speech lessons, speechreading, and hearing aids. Though successful both professionally and domestically, at the age of 67 Blatchford decided to undergo a cochlear implantation. In...

Raija Nieminen, a deaf woman from Finland, had been leading a very full life as both a librarian and mother of two children. Then her husband Jukka won an exciting new job designing the harbor in the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Raija suddenly need...

"Deaf Professionals and Designated Interpreters: A New Paradigm" defines a new model that depends upon strong partnerships between the growing number of deaf experts and their interpreters. Editors Peter C. Hauser, Karen L. Finch, and Angela B. Hause...

Seamos pragmaticos fills a void in the growing field of Spanish pragmatics. As more courses at the undergraduate level are being created in the U.S., this practical text will be the first one tailored to advanced undergraduate and graduate students w...

This volume brings together papers from the 11th Conceptual Structure, Discourse and Language Conference, held in Vancouver in May 2012. In the last few years, the cognitive study of language has begun to examine the interaction between language and...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Basic Czech" I, II, and III form a complete textbook for a course for English-language speakers who want to learn Czech. The first volume presents the basics of the Czech language by mean...

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Basic Czech" I, II, and III form a complete textbook for a course for English-language speakers who want to learn Czech".Basic Czech" II is structured similarly, but it moves students fro...

Now, for the first time, a collection featuring 17 widely respected scholars depicts the everyday practices of deaf interpreters in their respective nations. Deaf Interpreters at Work: International Insights presents the history of Deaf translators a...

This new collection examines several facets of signed language interpreting. Claudia Angelelli's study confirms that conference, courtroom, and medical interpretation can no longer be seen as a two-party conversation with an "invisible" interpreter,...