Melanie Metzger

Signed Language Interpreting in Brazil (The Studies in Interpretation Series, Vol. 9)

The ninth volume in the Studies in Interpretation series offers six succinct chapters on the state of signed language interpreting by Brazil by editors Ronice Müller de Quadros, Earl Fleetwood, Melanie Metzger and ten Brazilian researchers. The first chapter advocates for the affiliation of Brazilia...

Bilingualism and Identity in Deaf Communities (Gallaudet Sociolinguistics) [Hardcover] [2000] (Author) Melanie Metzger

From Topic Boundaries to Omission: New Research on Interpretation (Studies in Interpretation Series, Vol. 1)

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, but as a three-party conversation in which the int...

Signed Languages: Discoveries from International Research

Signed Languages is at the forefront of current signed language research. The book is an essential resource for any linguist's or deaf scholar's library. The research it contains reflects the current trend toward focusing on international signed languages that previously have been ignored, including...

Attitudes, Innuendo, and Regulators: Challenges of Interpretation (Studies in Interpretation Series, Vol. 2)

The second volume in the Studies in Interpretation series delves further into the intricacies of sign language interpreting in five distinctive chapters. In the first chapter, Lawrence Forestal investigates the shifting attitudes of Deaf leaders toward sign language interpreters. Forestal notes how ...

Translation, Sociolinguistic, and Consumer Issues in Interpreting (Studies in Interpretation Series, Vol. 3)

The Third Volume in the Studies in Interpretation Series This new volume focuses on scholarship over a refined spectrum of issues that confront interpreters internationally. Editors Melanie Metzger and Earl Fleetwood call upon researchers from the United States, Ireland, Australia, and the Philippin...

Sign Language Interpreting: Deconstructing the Myth of Neutrality

This study provides a look at the games and events that deaf people have organized for themselves. It is a look at the psychological forces that have influenced the development of cultural activities that are by and for the deaf community. The book gives an analysis of the sociological forces that h...

Bilingualism and Identity in Deaf Communities (Gallaudet Sociolinguistics)

Is perception reality? Editor Melanie Metzger investigates the cultural perceptions by and of deaf people around the world in Bilingualism and Identity in Deaf Communities volume six of the Sociolinguistics series.