Jemina Napier
Biographic Data
| ID | 3670685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jemina Napier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jemina |
| FAMILY NAME | Napier |
| SIGNATURE | NAPIER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Signed Language Interpreting Profession
This entry provides an overview of the development of the signed language interpreting profession worldwide. It documents key milestones in the professionalization process and issues that distinguish signed from spoken language interpreting concerning role, ethics, and training.
Research on Signed Language Translation and Interpreting
This entry provides an overview of the development of signed language interpreting and translation research. It documents the most prolific research domains including role and ethics, profile of interpreters and translators, interpreting in education, legal, and healthcare settings; and emerging topics on deaf practitioners, high‐level interpreting, and video remote interpreting.
International Sign conference interpreters as a Community of Practice
Conference signed language interpreters traditionally work between their national sign language and the national spoken or written language. During their careers, interpreters may add other spoken or signed languages to their repertoire. Some also acquire International Sign (IS) as a working language and interpret between IS and other signed and spoken languages. Being highly context dependent, IS has limited conventions and there is no establish…
Deaf citizens as jurors in Australian courts
Australian deaf citizens are currently not permitted to perform jury duty, primarily due to their inability to hear the evidence and deliberate without the help of interpreters. Although interpreters are routinely employed to interpret for defendants or witnesses in court, current legal frameworks do not permit interpreters to enter the deliberation room as a ‘thirteenth person’, for fear that they may influence the jurors in their decision-makin…
Jury instructions
This project investigated the capacity of deaf people using Australian Sign Language (Auslan) to serve as jurors. Following on from a pilot study with 6 deaf and 6 hearing people acting as ‘jurors’ (see Napier & Spencer, 2007, 2008), this project replicated the method of the earlier study, and compared the level of comprehension of 30 deaf jurors to a control group of 30 non-deaf (‘hearing’) jurors from three different major cities in Australia; …
International Sign
International Sign (IS) is widely used among deaf people and interpreters at international events, but what exactly is it, what are its linguistic features, where does its lexicon come from, and how is it used at interpreted events? This groundbreaking collection is the first volume to provide answers to these questions. Editors Rachel Rosenstock and Jemina Napier have assembled an international group of renowned linguists and interpreters to exa…
Directionality in Signed Language Interpreting
This mixed methods study investigated the effects of directionality (language direction) and age of signed language acquisition on the simultaneous interpreting performance of professional English/Auslan (Australian Sign Language) interpreters, who comprised native signers and non-native signers. Each participant interpreted presentations simultaneously from English into Auslan, and vice versa, with each task followed by a brief semi-structured i…
Research on Signed Language Interpreting
As with interpreting research more generally, signed language interpreting (SLI) research is an emerging subdiscipline of translation studies.
Signed Language Interpreting Profession
Interpreting is an applied linguistic activity; the act of mediating between languages and cultures involves the application of linguistic knowledge across a wide range of communicative settings.
"It's not what they say but the way they say it". A content analysis of interpreter and consumer perceptions towards signed language interpreting in Australia
This paper presents findings of an innovative study, which involved the thematic and content analyses of discussions held by deaf people, hearing people and interpreters about signed language interpreting in Australia. Six focus groups yielded eight hours of data, which was analyzed to identify themes that emerged about participants' perceptions about interpreters and interpreting. Examples are given to compare how participants view the signed la…
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"It's not what they say but the way they say it". A content analysis of interpreter and consumer perceptions towards signed language interpreting in Australia
This paper presents findings of an innovative study, which involved the thematic and content analyses of discussions held by deaf people, hearing people and interpreters about signed language interpreting in Australia. Six focus groups yielded eight hours of data, which was analyzed to identify themes that emerged about participants' perceptions about interpreters and interpreting. Examples are given to compare how participants view the signed la…
Research on Signed Language Interpreting
As with interpreting research more generally, signed language interpreting (SLI) research is an emerging subdiscipline of translation studies.
Signed Language Interpreting Profession
Interpreting is an applied linguistic activity; the act of mediating between languages and cultures involves the application of linguistic knowledge across a wide range of communicative settings.
International Sign
International Sign (IS) is widely used among deaf people and interpreters at international events, but what exactly is it, what are its linguistic features, where does its lexicon come from, and how is it used at interpreted events? This groundbreaking collection is the first volume to provide answers to these questions. Editors Rachel Rosenstock and Jemina Napier have assembled an international group of renowned linguists and interpreters to exa…
Directionality in Signed Language Interpreting
This mixed methods study investigated the effects of directionality (language direction) and age of signed language acquisition on the simultaneous interpreting performance of professional English/Auslan (Australian Sign Language) interpreters, who comprised native signers and non-native signers. Each participant interpreted presentations simultaneously from English into Auslan, and vice versa, with each task followed by a brief semi-structured i…
Deaf citizens as jurors in Australian courts
Australian deaf citizens are currently not permitted to perform jury duty, primarily due to their inability to hear the evidence and deliberate without the help of interpreters. Although interpreters are routinely employed to interpret for defendants or witnesses in court, current legal frameworks do not permit interpreters to enter the deliberation room as a ‘thirteenth person’, for fear that they may influence the jurors in their decision-makin…
Jury instructions
This project investigated the capacity of deaf people using Australian Sign Language (Auslan) to serve as jurors. Following on from a pilot study with 6 deaf and 6 hearing people acting as ‘jurors’ (see Napier & Spencer, 2007, 2008), this project replicated the method of the earlier study, and compared the level of comprehension of 30 deaf jurors to a control group of 30 non-deaf (‘hearing’) jurors from three different major cities in Australia; …
International Sign conference interpreters as a Community of Practice
Conference signed language interpreters traditionally work between their national sign language and the national spoken or written language. During their careers, interpreters may add other spoken or signed languages to their repertoire. Some also acquire International Sign (IS) as a working language and interpret between IS and other signed and spoken languages. Being highly context dependent, IS has limited conventions and there is no establish…
Signed Language Interpreting Profession
This entry provides an overview of the development of the signed language interpreting profession worldwide. It documents key milestones in the professionalization process and issues that distinguish signed from spoken language interpreting concerning role, ethics, and training.
Research on Signed Language Translation and Interpreting
This entry provides an overview of the development of signed language interpreting and translation research. It documents the most prolific research domains including role and ethics, profile of interpreters and translators, interpreting in education, legal, and healthcare settings; and emerging topics on deaf practitioners, high‐level interpreting, and video remote interpreting.
Interpreter (7 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sign language (5 works) · Language interpretation (4 works) · Hearing Impairment and Communication (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works)