Call for papers.

[Rachel McKee]

Gallaudet University Press is soliciting abstracts for the fifth  
volume of the Studies in Interpretation Series edited by Melanie  
Metzger and Earl Fleetwood. The series offers volumes devoted to the  
work of individual researchers and also collections of significant  
articles by various scholars.

The fifth volume in the series will be a collection of articles on  
the theme, Signed Language Interpreting in Multilingual or  
Multiethnic Contexts, to be guest edited by Rachel Locker McKee,  
senior lecturer in deaf studies at Victoria University of Wellington,  
and Jeffrey Davis, professor in education, University of Tennessee.

The editors are now accepting abstracts for papers that explore the  
challenges of working between combinations of languages in  
multilingual or multiethnic situations involving Deaf persons in  
circumstances such as the following:

·      Indigenous or regional (spoken) language community contexts in  
which Deaf people want to participate through signed language  
interpreting (eg, Maori in New Zealand) or the use of indigenous or  
regional sign varieties by Deaf people (eg, Native American, Catalan  
sign varieties); also mulitlingual or bilingual societies such as  
Malaysia, Canada.

·      Immigration of Deaf and hearing people which results in (i)  
use of a different national signed language in a new host country  
(eg, Mexican Sign Language in USA),  (ii) the use of a different host  
country spoken language by hearing associates of Deaf people in the  
new host country (eg. the use of Spanish by families of Latino deaf  
children in the USA).

·      International conferences and meetings in which signed  
language interpreters are required to work between a non-native  
spoken language (usually English, as an official conference language)  
and one or more national signed languages.

While interpreting between any two languages entails the same  
fundamental processes and skills, there are particular contextual  
issues for interpreters who work in multilingual situations.  
Interpreting in minority language situations raises challenges around:

·      achieving linguistic and cultural equivalence across wide  
cultural and linguistic gaps

·      cultural expectations about the interpreter’s role, and  
relationship to minority community members

·      mediating unequal status and power dynamics between majority/ 
minority language speakers

·      establishing training and accreditation standards  for working  
in minority (signed/spoken) languages

·      collaborative relay interpreting practices

Contributions related this theme are welcomed from interpreting  
practitioners, interpreting and signed language researchers,  
interpreter educators, and interpreting consumers.

  Abstracts must not exceed two pages in length (with at least 11- 
point font). Electronic submissions should be sent to the email  
address shown below.

  The deadline for abstracts for this volume is October 31st, 2007.   
You will be notified about acceptance of your proposal by Nov 30th  
2007.  First drafts of manuscripts will be due by June 1st 2008, and  
revised manuscripts by Nov 30th 2008.

  Send abstracts and inquiries to:

Dr. Rachel Locker McKee

School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies

Victoria University of Wellington

PO Box 600, Wellington 6001

NEW ZEALAND

mailto:rachel.mckee at vuw.ac.nz
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