Context-based Ethical Reasoning in Interpreting

Dean, Robyn K.; Pollard, Robert Q.

doi:10.1080/13556509.2011.10798816

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“…Linguistic demands of speaker texts are closely connected with paralinguistic demands; both featured prominently in this context. The following analysis of these interpreters' perspective on the events described above is loosely organised around these categories of demand, which in practice were experienced as a constellation of 'concurrent demands' (Dean & Pollard 2011). A tabular summary of demands and controls is given in the Appendix.…”

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Breaking news: Sign language interpreters on television during natural disasters

McKee¹

2014

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Flood, cyclone and earthquake disasters in Australia and New Zealand in 2011 brought sign language interpreters into the media spotlight in these countries. Their inclusion in television broadcasts to communicate emergency-related information was unprecedented in both countries, and attracted strong responses from Deaf viewers and the general public. Drawing on retrospective interviews with two New Zealand interpreters and one Australian interpreter, this report explains how interpreters came to be included in the broadcasts, and identifies the specific demands they encountered when working in the context of a civil emergency. Impacts of, and responses to, the interpreted coverage are also noted.

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Section: Christchurchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Breaking news: Sign language interpreters on television during natural disasters

McKee¹

2014

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“…Yu 1951;Tang and Zhou 1958;Huang 1985;Li 2004) -again following a similar path to publications in the West around the same period. However, while most international publications on interpreter ethics since the turn of the century are empirical studies (e.g., Angelelli 2004;Seeber andZelger 2007, Dean andPollard 2011;Baker and Maier 2011;Inghilleri 2012;Drugan 2017;Gallai 2019), research attempting to theorise interpreter ethics or empirical inquiries looking into the ethical issues in interpreting events in China during the same timeframe have been rare, consisting only of a few papers (Su 2010;Ren 2011;Deng and Liu 2014;Xiang and Zheng 2015;Wang and Feng 2018;Li 2019). Although some articles have analysed issues related to different aspects of interpreter ethics, such as competence (Wang 2012;Lu, Li, and Li 2019) or faithfulness (Lu 2007;Yao, 2018), their primary purpose was not to engage with questions of ethics specifically.…”

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The evolution of interpreters’ perception and application of (codes of) ethics in China since 1949: a sociological and historical perspective

Ren

2020

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This paper examines the evolution of interpreters' perception and application of (codes of) ethics and its impact on the making of a profession (or 'a relatively autonomous field' in Bourdieusian terms) in China's mainland since 1949, from both a sociological and a historical perspective. Using Bourdieu's theory of practice as an analytical tool, and drawing on email interviews with interpreters, autobiographies and narrations produced by interpreters and institutional documents, in addition to surveying the relevant literature, the author explores how and why the five core ethical principles for interpreters-competence, integrity, fidelity, neutrality, confidentiality-were understood and practised in different ways by interpreters in the past 70 years. The findings indicate that most of these five principles were differently perceived and applied by interpreters in the three historical periods between 1949 and 2019 due to interpreters' different levels of capitals, state of habitus, and interpreting as, respectively, a heteronomic field (-1949-1978), a field moving towards professional autonomy (1979-2009), and a field likely to become a (sub)field of the rising language service industry (2010-2019).

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“…In addition to the sole focus on the boundaries of ethical behaviour, Dean and Pollard (2011) highlighted other concerns regarding the use of ethical dilemmas. They contend that ethical dilemmas often presume prior decisions.…”

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Condemned to repetition? An analysis of problem-setting and problem-solving in sign language interpreting ethics

Dean¹

2014

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A profession learns from the mistakes of the past and it is these historical lessons that will undoubtedly influence its current ethical frame. However, in order to remain relevant, the ethical frame must avail itself to current practice issues, not just protection against the misdeeds of the past. This review follows a similar analysis proposed by Hill (2004) in the field of counselling and considers the ethical content material presented to sign language interpreting students in the U.S. This study analyses examples of ethical content material in the sign language interpreting profession to determine what is the past and present ethical discourse offered by the profession's exemplars. It is concluded that ethical content material available to students and practitioners appears to remain imbedded in the concerns of the past, at the minimal standards of ethical practice, and therefore may not be sufficiently addressing broader concerns for the development of effective (and ethical) practice skills of sign language interpreters today.

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Context-based Ethical Reasoning in Interpreting

Cited by 80 publications

References 9 publications

Breaking news: Sign language interpreters on television during natural disasters

Breaking news: Sign language interpreters on television during natural disasters

The evolution of interpreters’ perception and application of (codes of) ethics in China since 1949: a sociological and historical perspective

Condemned to repetition? An analysis of problem-setting and problem-solving in sign language interpreting ethics

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