Signs Beyond Borders: Meaning-making across sign and spoken languages

Colleagues are warmly welcome to the fourth session of the Sadler Seminar Series ‘Signs Beyond Borders: Meaning-making across sign and spoken languages’. This seminar, led by Dr Christopher Stone from the University of Wolverhampton, focuses on interpreting in professional contexts.

Abstract:
Christopher will be exploring multimodal indexicality and deixis in in-vision interpreting and deaf-hearing interpreter-mediated medical interactions. The first data discussed with be broadcast television data to examine how deixis occurs multimodally with no present audience. The second data discussed are student interpreter-mediated simulated medical appointments based in a nursing clinical skills lab with a senior nurse practitioner and a deaf visiting lecturer. Here comparison will be made between deixis with no audience present, and deixis in triadic interpreter-mediated interactions. Some attention will be paid to the use of ELAN to highlight the overlapping of talk and gesture which can be both collaborative and non-collaborative in nature.

The seminar will take the following structure. During the first hour the speakers will present the data followed by a group discussion. The focus for the second hour will be on the data itself and on exploring the modal complexity of the scenarios and the modal intensity of individual contributions.

This is a free event and open to all. You are warmly welcome to attend the first half of the seminar or the full seminar.

For directions to the LHRI see here: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20045/leeds_humanities_research_institute/2567/contact_us

For further information about the seminar series please see here:

https://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/info/20045/leeds_humanities_research_institute/3080/signs_beyond_borders_meaning-making_across_sign_and_spoken_languages

If you have any questions please contact Jessica Bradley (j.m.bradley.ac.uk).

Signs Beyond Borders is convened by Elisabetta Adami in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, with Ruth Swanwick and James Simpson in the School of Education. External collaborators are Annelies Kusters (Heriot-Watt) and Christopher Stone (Wolverhampton).