Lorraine Leeson

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lorraine Leeson is involved.

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Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and function

Edited by Myriam Vermeerbergen, Lorraine Leeson and Onno A. Crasborn

Signed language users can draw on a range of articulators when expressing linguistic messages, including the hands, torso, eye gaze, and mouth. Sometimes these articulators work in tandem to produce one lexical item while in other instances they operate to convey different types of information… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 281] 2007. viii, 360 pp. (incl. CD-Rom)

Leeson, Lorraine 2017 Nicodemus and Cagle, (Eds.), 2015, Signed language interpretation and translation research: Selected papers from the First International Symposium Interpreting 19:2, pp. 271–279 | Review

Leeson, Lorraine 2011 “Mark my words”: The linguistic, social, and political significance of the assessment of signed language interpreters Advances in Interpreting Research: Inquiry in action, Nicodemus, Brenda and Laurie Swabey (eds.), pp. 153–176 | Article

This paper examines a critical area of interpreting research – assessment – as it pertains to the training of signed language interpreters (SLIs). The idea of testing as a wholly objective assessment of competence is problematized and issues that impact the testing cycle are teased out. These… read more

Leeson, Lorraine and Myriam Vermeerbergen 2010 Sign language interpreting and translating Handbook of Translation Studies: Volume 1, Gambier, Yves and Luc van Doorslaer (eds.), pp. 324–328 | Article

Leeson, Lorraine and John Saeed 2007 Conceptual Blending and the Windowing of Attention in Simultaneous Constructions in Irish Sign Language Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and function, Vermeerbergen, Myriam, Lorraine Leeson and Onno A. Crasborn (eds.), pp. 55–72 | Article

Vermeerbergen, Myriam, Lorraine Leeson and Onno A. Crasborn 2007 Simultaneity in Signed Languages.: A String of Sequentially Organised Issues Simultaneity in Signed Languages: Form and function, Vermeerbergen, Myriam, Lorraine Leeson and Onno A. Crasborn (eds.), pp. 1–25 | Article

Leeson, Lorraine 2005 Making the effort in simultaneous interpreting: Some considerations for signed language interpreters Topics in Signed Language Interpreting: Theory and practice, Janzen, Terry (ed.), pp. 51–68 | Article

Leeson, Lorraine 2005 Vying with variation: Interpreting language contact, gender variation and generational difference Topics in Signed Language Interpreting: Theory and practice, Janzen, Terry (ed.), pp. 251–291 | Article