Chapter 4. Role-space in VRS and VRI
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Robert G. Lee
Abstract
This chapter explores issues related to Video Relay Services (VRS), a telephone access service for Deaf people and Video Remote Interpreting (VRI). First there is a discussion of Deaf people and specifically users of sign language and how they negotiate remote communicative interactions (initially without direct access to audio-only technologies such as the telephone). Similarities and differences between VRS services for Deaf people and remote interpreted interactions (which can involve signed and spoken or solely spoken language interlocutors) are then explored.
The concept of role-space (Llewellyn-Jones and Lee 2014) is then introduced as a lens through which these interactions can be analysed. A discussion of VRI situations through the role-space dimensions of interaction management, participant alignment and presentation of self is presented. Finally, recommendations for factors to be considered to make VRI situations more effective are presented.
Abstract
This chapter explores issues related to Video Relay Services (VRS), a telephone access service for Deaf people and Video Remote Interpreting (VRI). First there is a discussion of Deaf people and specifically users of sign language and how they negotiate remote communicative interactions (initially without direct access to audio-only technologies such as the telephone). Similarities and differences between VRS services for Deaf people and remote interpreted interactions (which can involve signed and spoken or solely spoken language interlocutors) are then explored.
The concept of role-space (Llewellyn-Jones and Lee 2014) is then introduced as a lens through which these interactions can be analysed. A discussion of VRI situations through the role-space dimensions of interaction management, participant alignment and presentation of self is presented. Finally, recommendations for factors to be considered to make VRI situations more effective are presented.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1. “Going video” 13
- Chapter 2. “You are just a disembodied voice really” 47
- Chapter 3. Remote interpreting in dialogic settings 79
- Chapter 4. Role-space in VRS and VRI 107
- Chapter 5. The importance of video recordings in signed language interpreting research 127
- Chapter 6. Gesture functions and gestural style in simultaneous interpreting 151
- Chapter 7. Going video : Understanding interpreter-mediated clinical communication through the video lens 181
- Chapter 8. Eye-tracking in interpreter-mediated talk 203
- Index 235
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
- Chapter 1. “Going video” 13
- Chapter 2. “You are just a disembodied voice really” 47
- Chapter 3. Remote interpreting in dialogic settings 79
- Chapter 4. Role-space in VRS and VRI 107
- Chapter 5. The importance of video recordings in signed language interpreting research 127
- Chapter 6. Gesture functions and gestural style in simultaneous interpreting 151
- Chapter 7. Going video : Understanding interpreter-mediated clinical communication through the video lens 181
- Chapter 8. Eye-tracking in interpreter-mediated talk 203
- Index 235
