Location
Marriott West
9960 Wayzata Blvd
Minneapolis, MN
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Description
Part of the 2010 Minnesota Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf Conference.
Historically interpreters have focused exclusively on the product of interpretations (what was said/signed) with evaluative feedback, i.e. “You signed that wrong.” “I wouldn’t have said it that way.” This approach creates adversarial environments where interpreters are fearful of making “mistakes” and resistant to analyzing their work with feedback. Add…itionally, unless a scenario identical to the original presents itself, changes in the product have little overall impact on a practitioners work in general.
This course is built on my studies of the Integrated Model of Interpreting (widely known as the Colonomos Model) that focuses on the process of interpreting rather than its product. The product is useful insofar as it provides insight into the interpreter’s process where true transformations in the work can take place.
Participants will work collaboratively to co-create interpretations based on speaker goals (intention) rather than on regurgitating the source text in a different modality (retention). Feedback will be modeled using non-evaluative language so participants can practice and develop tools to analyze the work in more effective, non-threatening, non-confrontational ways.
Topics we will cover:
• Practice analyzing source texts to determine speaker goal
• Collaboratively create effective interpretations based on analysis of speaker goal
• Create interpretations individually based on analysis of speaker goal
• Practice analyzing target texts to determine goal
• Practice discussing source and target texts using non-evaluative language
Three-hour workshop:
9:00-12:00 PM
0.3 CEUs in the Professional Studies category requiring some content pre-knowledge.
For more information and registration, please visit MRID’s website