Sign language interpreting on Chinese TV: a survey on user perspectives

Xiao, Xiaoyan; Li, Feiyan

doi:10.1080/0907676x.2011.632690

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“…According to Xiao and Li (2013), only 12.9% of Deaf respondents in their study often watch programs with SLI. An astonishing 84% of those who have watched such programs report that they have difficulty understanding the signing.…”

Section: Comprehension Of Signed Language Interpretingmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…This means that hundreds of thousands of Deaf viewers potentially have access to primetime local and national news in their native language. These new developments are no doubt relevant, since television is still the second biggest source of information (following the Internet) for China's Deaf population (Xiao & Li 2013). However, the massive investment by central and local government in setting up and maintaining the programs concerned has so far not met with great enthusiasm for the results achieved: these programs are neither widely followed nor well received by the Deaf community (Liu et al 2013;Xiao & Li 2013).…”

Section: Signed Language Interpreting On Chinese Televisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Throughout the interpretation, the interpreters sat upright, with no noticeable head or body movement and no change of facial expression according to the content or theme. As explored in Yang & Fischer (2002), nonmanual markers are vital to express syntactic and lexical negation. This use of negation was important for several clips, including those presented in Table 8, but was completely absent in the interpretations.…”

Section: Linguistic Competencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…CSL is believed to have been disseminated through schools of the Deaf, and among the Chinese Deaf community, over the past century (Wen 1992;Yang & Fischer 2002). Sometimes, attempts by teachers for the Deaf and sign language interpreters to use the standard variety of sign language actually produce signing which resembles a manual code for spoken Chinese.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Chinese Deaf viewers’ comprehension of sign language interpreting on television

Xiao

Chen

Palmer³

2015

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Over 200 television channels in China broadcast news with signed language interpreting, making this one of the most visible forms of public accessibility for Deaf citizens. However, previous surveys have reported that most viewers have difficulty understanding the sign language interpreter. This experimental study examines how well a group of 49 Deaf individuals do, comparing their level of comprehension with that of twenty hearing viewers whose medium of access to program content is spoken Mandarin. All participants completed simple comprehension questions, in written form, after viewing twenty short news clips. These were shown once to the hearing viewers, and twice to Deaf viewers so as to compensate for any intrinsic difficulty related to the limited visual clarity of televised signed language interpreting. Results show that, even with interpretation, the Deaf viewers do not benefit equally from the news clips. Analysis of the interpretations suggests that the interpreters' lack of Chinese Sign Language fluency might have contributed to the Deaf viewers' lesser comprehension. In addition to insufficient training, the high pressure the interpreters experience in relation to interpreting in media settings might have a negative effect on the quality of their interpretation.

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Section: Comprehension Of Signed Language Interpretingmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Signed Language Interpreting On Chinese Televisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Chinese Deaf viewers’ comprehension of sign language interpreting on television

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2015

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“…In the process, language choices were made that closely related the new sign language to the syntax and the characters of Putonghua (Lin, de Garcia, and Chen-Pichler 2009), the result being Chinese Sign Language (CSL). Scholars debate the effects of the state promotion of CSL and it remains unclear to what extent CSL has actually superseded the sign languages or sign dialects of Shanghai, Beijing and other regions (Callaway 2000; Huang and Gu 2014; Xiao, Chen, and Palmer 2015; Xiao and Li 2013; Yang and Fischer 2002). …”

Section: Research Issues: Policies On Language Education and Disabilmentioning

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‘Civilising’ Deaf people in Tibet and Inner Mongolia: governing linguistic, ethnic and bodily difference in China

Hofer¹,

Sagli

2017

Disability & Society

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The People’s Republic of China is home to over 20 million d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, many among them belonging to ethnic minorities. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in two minority regions, the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region, this article comparatively discusses findings on sign language use, education and state welfare policies. The situation in these domains is analysed through the framework of the ‘civilising project’, coined by Harrell, and its impacts on the d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing among ethnic minorities are shown. For instance, through the promotion of Chinese and Chinese Sign Language over and above the use of local sign and written languages as well as through education and the medicalisation of disabilities.

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Interpreting Studies by Chinese Scholars (1949–2017)

Ren

Juan²

2019

Translation Studies in China

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Sign language interpreting on Chinese TV: a survey on user perspectives

Cited by 19 publications

References 13 publications

Chinese Deaf viewers’ comprehension of sign language interpreting on television

Chinese Deaf viewers’ comprehension of sign language interpreting on television

‘Civilising’ Deaf people in Tibet and Inner Mongolia: governing linguistic, ethnic and bodily difference in China

Interpreting Studies by Chinese Scholars (1949–2017)

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