Body-oriented gestures as a practitioner's window into interpreted communication

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A Better Medical Interpreting Service

“…Lastly, we admit that the scale of this corpus is small and the audio recording limits the study of medical interpretation. It is our opinion that future studies should expand the scale of corpus and continue to investigate the relationship between interpreter's role and strategies through more nonverbal indicators, like gaze and body-oriented gestures (Krystallidou, 2014;Gerwing & Li, 2019;Vranjes & Brône, 2020) etc., and further explore how medical interpreter deal with socio-cultural issues in the dialogic context.…”

Fight for focus: attention and agency in sight-translated interaction

“…However, when another interpreter said 'IA' and added a definition, the PSR was not confident that the solution was acceptable (it was adequate). When monitoring the interpreted action without access to the verbal content, the PSR only had fragments of words and the visual to work with, with the latter being proposed to serve as a window into interpreted interaction (Gerwing & Li, 2019). This is, however, a window without clear sight, so it is a difficult base to act upon and to exercise agency.…”

“…This was done because the primary focus was initially how the interpreters would deal with sight translation; the result of this analysis was presented in a previous study (Havnen, 2020). According to students in courses on sight translation, my own experiences as an interpreter and as reported by Felberg (2015), it is common practice for the PSR to leave a document with the interpreter. Sometimes, the PSR excludes themselves from the interaction, occasionally physically leaving the room (Nilsen & Havnen, 2019).…”

“…Attention, in addition to foregrounding a higher-level action, is also related to the unengaged mindin other words, boredom (Eastwood et al, 2012). Earlier research has mentioned, but not scrutinised, disengagement when listening to sight-translated text (Felberg, 2015;Felberg & Nilsen, 2017). The guidelines for sight translation in asylum hearings cite maintaining attention as being the interpreter's responsibility in order to support listeners' engagement (Spitz & Hlavac, 2017).…”

Fifteen ways of looking at a pointing gesture

“…Primitive perhaps, puzzling sometimes-but one thing that is inarguable about pointing is that it is pervasive. The gesture is a workhorse of everyday communication, prominent in contexts such as direction-giving (Kita, 2003;Kita & Essegbey, 2001), doctor-patient interactions (Gerwing & Li, 2019), work meetings (Mondada, 2007), guided tours (Kendon, 2004), museum visits (Winghager, Atzwanger, Bookstein, & Schaefer, 2011), archaeological digs (Goodwin, 2003), talk show interviews (Cooperrider, 2014), mathematics lectures (Alibali, Nathan, & Fujimori, 2011;Knoblauch, 2008)-and no doubt countless other contexts that await close study. In naturalistic settings like these, pointing may in fact be the most commonly used gesture type of all, more common than depictive gestures or conventional emblems like the "thumbs up."…”