In.terp.novation

Re-examining What "Interpreter Role" Means - An Introduction to Role-Space is a facilitated workshop by Amy Kroll.
 

This interactive, discussion-based workshop is for working and student interpreters. Over the course of this workshop, you will explore the work of Peter Llewellyn-Jones and Robert G. Lee. Their work presents Role-Space which is a model that questions the ASL-English interpreting field's traditional view of "role." Llewellyn-Jones and Lee believe when interpreters and consumers share the same understanding of "role" then interpreters can effectively make decisions that allow successful communicative interactions of the consumers. This is not a workshop designed to improve your ability to educate consumers on the interpreter's role (as historically understood and taught by the field). Instead, this workshop presents Llewellyn-Jones and Lee's challenge that role is a series of alignments between the interpreter and the people within a communicative interaction.  

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By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Define Role-Space and it's three axes of alignment (x = participant, y = interaction management, & z = presentation of self)

• Compare "role" from a traditional viewpoint (the interpreter role) to an alignment viewpoint (Role-Space)

• Discuss Role-Space as a decision-making tool for interpreted interactions

• Analyze case presentation of real-world communicative interactions by applying the Role-Space model to evaluate the effectiveness of the decisions made by an interpreter

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