Terry Janzen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Terry Janzen is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1384-6647 | E‑ISSN 1569‑982X
Title
Topics in Signed Language Interpreting: Theory and practice
Edited by Terry Janzen
Interpreters who work with signed languages and those who work strictly with spoken languages share many of the same issues regarding their training, skill sets, and fundamentals of practice. Yet interpreting into and from signed languages presents unique challenges for the interpreter, who works… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 63] 2005. xii, 362 pp.
2022 Embodied cognition: ASL signers’ and English speakers’ use of viewpointed space Signed and spoken language contrastive research: A multimodal approach, Gabarró-López, Sílvia and Laurence Meurant (eds.), pp. 227–258 | Article
Recent work has shown that ASL (American Sign Language) signers not only articulate the language in the space in front of and around them, they interact with that space bodily, such that those interactions are frequently viewpointed. At a basic level, signers use their bodies to depict the… read more
2022 Signed language pragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1209–1223 | Chapter
2018 know and understand in ASL: A usage-based study of grammaticalized topic constructions Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. Bybee, Smith, K. Aaron and Dawn Nordquist (eds.), pp. 59–87 | Chapter
Topic constructions in ASL are understood to be composed of information identifiable to the addressee that serves as the reference point from which to view the comment or comments immediately following it. This study compares the instances of use in a corpus of conversational ASL of KNOW and… read more
2016 Review of Roy & Napier (2015): The sign language interpreting studies reader Interpreting 18:2, pp. 294–299 | Review
2011 Signed language pragmatics Pragmatics in Practice, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 278–294 | Article
2008 14. Intersubjectivity in interpreted interactions: The interpreter's role in co-constructing meaning The Shared Mind: Perspectives on intersubjectivity, Zlatev, Jordan, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen (eds.), pp. 333–355 | Article
Introducing an interpreter into a discourse event affects the very nature of the interchange because in addition to the interlocutors’ intersubjective approach to each other, the interpreter necessarily bases her interpretation on assumptions she makes about each of the interlocutors’ shared and… read more
2006 Review of Winston (2004): Educational interpreting: How it can succeed Interpreting 8:2, pp. 229–234 | Review
2005 Introduction to the theory and practice of signed language interpreting Topics in Signed Language Interpreting: Theory and practice, Janzen, Terry (ed.), pp. 3–24 | Article
2005 Interpretation and language use: ASL and English Topics in Signed Language Interpreting: Theory and practice, Janzen, Terry (ed.), pp. 69–105 | Article
2005 Ethics and professionalism in interpreting Topics in Signed Language Interpreting: Theory and practice, Janzen, Terry (ed.), pp. 165–199 | Article
2001 Signed language pragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: 1999 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–20 | Article
1999 The Grammaticization of Topics in American Sign Language Studies in Language 23:2, pp. 271–306 | Article
The topic construction of American Sign Language (ASL), within a topic-comment discourse structure framework, is explained as having emerged from gestural, communicative roots. In modern ASL, the prototypical topic construction is understood to grammatically mark pragmatic information that is… read more