Archive for 2009
Conference
In Uncategorized on 6 July 2009 at 03:50
If you want to keep up on linguistics, interpreting and translation conferences internationally the place to go is Helge Niska’s List of conferences within translation, interpreting, LSP, and terminology. Anyway, one that isn’t listed here is SIGN4, a conference on international sign languages and deaf communities. It’s in New Delhi in December but I’m not able to go.
We will be in South Africa then at a completely different international conference, an International Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Pretoria (I keep forgetting what it is called now).
Interpreting, Radio, The World, I'm Not Hanging Noodles on your Ears, Books, The World in Words, Podcast, Subscription Service
In Interpreting on 18 June 2009 at 04:35
Interpreters are sometimes asked to do “literal interpreting” or”word-for-word” interpreting. These are foolish requests when a person is actually looking for the full depth of meaning to be conveyed. The more meaning is interpreted, the less literal the interpretation is. What is said in one language is so embedded in culture and syntax that a “literal” interpretation is almost meaningless in another.
A new book I’m Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears, by Jag Bhalla and published by National Geographic, illustrates this by setting out common phrases in diverse languages and offering their lexical equivalents in English. The phrase in the title is the English equivalent of a Russian expression that means “I’m not pulling your leg.”
I came across an interview with the author while listening to PRI’s The World which also, it seems also offers a weekly podcast on language called The World in Words.
In Journal on 11 June 2009 at 22:52
New Issue is out (1 July 2009, Vol 20; No 3)
Here’s the Table of Contents:
Standards of Practice for Culturally Competent Nursing Care: A Request for Comments
Marilyn K. Douglas, Joan Uhl Pierce, Marlene Rosenkoetter, Lynn Clark Callister, Marianne Hattar-Pollara, Jana Lauderdale, June Miller, Jeri Milstead, Deena A. Nardi, and Dula Pacquiao
J Transcult Nurs 2009;20 257-269
When Family Means More (or Less) Than Genetics: The Intersection of Culture, Family, and Genomics
Barbara Burns McGrath and Karen L. Edwards
J Transcult Nurs 2009;20 270-277
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Addiction Biology, American Indian, Chinese, Drug Dependence, Journal
In Journal on 11 June 2009 at 22:20
New issue of Addiction Biology is out with articles about two special populations: American Indians and Chinese women.
Heritability and a genome-wide linkage analysis of a Type II/B cluster construct for cannabis dependence in an American Indian community
Cindy L. Ehlers, David A. Gilder, Ian R. Gizer, Kirk C. Wilhelmsen
Addiction Biology, 2009:14(3), pp 338-348
An association of prodynorphin polymorphisms and opioid dependence in females in a Chinese population
Toni-Kim Clarke, Kristina Krause, Tao Li, Gunter Schumann
Addiction Biology, 2009:14(3), pp 366-370
Clinical Pediatrics, Consent, Deafness, Fever, Hispanic, Journal, Patient-Provider Communication, Quality of Care
In Uncategorized on 31 May 2009 at 04:15
A variety of articles from Clinical Pediatrics:
A Broken Heart—The Physician’s Role: Bereaved Parents’ Perceptions of Interactions with Physicians
Katherine L. Bright, Marlene Belew Huff, and Karen Hollon
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2009;48 376-382
Knowledge and Management of Fever Among Latino Parents
Michael Crocetti, Bruce Sabath, Lisa Cranmer, Sasha Gubser, and Danielle Dooley
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2009;48 183-189
Pathogens Causing Recurrent and Difficult-to-Treat Acute Otitis Media, 2003-2006
Michael E. Pichichero, Janet R. Casey, Alejandro Hoberman, and Richard Schwartz
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2008;47 901-906
Please Don’t Call My Mom: Pediatric Consent and Confidentiality
Courtenay R. Bruce, Stacey L. Berg, and Amy L. McGuire
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2009;48 243-246
Spanish-Speaking Patients Perceive High Quality Care in Resident Continuity Practices: A CORNET Study
Scott D. Krugman, Lilia Parra-Roide, Wendy L. Hobson, Lynn C. Garfunkel, and Janet R. Serwint
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2009;48 304-310
In Uncategorized on 31 May 2009 at 02:43
African Americans, AIDS, Chinese, Compliance, Diabetes, Health communication, Health disparities, Hispanic, HIV, Journal: Health Education and Behavior, Native Americans, Patient-Provider Communication, Violence
In Health Care, Health disparities, Journal, Special populations on 31 May 2009 at 02:29
Lots of stuff under broad categories from the journal Health Education and Behaviors over the last several months.
African Americans
Developing Long-Term Physical Activity Participation: A Grounded Theory Study With African American Women
Amy E. Harley, Janet Buckworth, Mira L. Katz, Sharla K. Willis, Angela Odoms-Young, and Catherine A. Heaney
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 97-112
Effects of Racial Discrimination and Health Behaviors on Mental and Physical Health of Middle-Class African American Men
Sherrill L. Sellers, Vence Bonham, Harold W. Neighbors, and James W. Amell
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 31-44
Neighborhood Environment and Adherence to a Walking Intervention in African American Women
Shannon N. Zenk, JoEllen Wilbur, Edward Wang, Judith McDevitt, April Oh, Richard Block, Sue McNeil, and Nina Savar
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 167-181
Perceptions of the Religion—Health Connection Among African Americans in the Southeastern United States: Sex, Age, and Urban/Rural Differences
Cheryl L. Holt, Emily Schulz, and Theresa A. Wynn
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 62-80
Psychosocial Influences on Suboptimal Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatment Adherence Among African American Women: Implications for Education and Intervention
Carol Magai, Nathan S. Consedine, Brenda A. Adjei, Dawn Hershman, and Alfred Neugut
Health Educ Behav 2008;35 835-854
Self-Efficacy Mediates the Relationship Between Depressive Symptoms and Medication Adherence Among Hypertensive African Americans
Antoinette Schoenthaler, Gbenga Ogedegbe, and John P. Allegrante
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 127-137
Weighing the Consequences: Self-Disclosure of HIV-Positive Status Among African American Injection Drug Users
Maribel Valle and Judith Levy
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 155-166
Chinese
Development and Evaluation of a Culturally Tailored Educational Video: Changing Breast Cancer–Related Behaviors in Chinese Women
Judy H. Wang, Wenchi Liang, Marc D. Schwartz, Marion M. Lee, Barbara Kreling, and Jeanne S. Mandelblatt
Health Educ Behav 2008;35 806-820
Hispanics
Ecodevelopmental x Intrapersonal Risk: Substance Use and Sexual Behavior in Hispanic Adolescents
Guillermo J. Prado, Seth J. Schwartz, Mildred Maldonado-Molina, Shi Huang, Hilda M. Pantin, Barbara Lopez, and Jose Szapocznik
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 45-61
Evaluating a Stage Model in Predicting Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Latinas’ Cervical Cancer Screening Practices: The Role of Psychosocial and Cultural Predictors
Elva Maria Arredondo, Kathryn Pollak, and Philip R. Costanzo
Health Educ Behav 2008;35 791-805
Improving Diabetes Care and Health Measures Among Hispanics Using Community Health Workers: Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial
Kenneth S. Babamoto, Kwa A. Sey, Angela J. Camilleri, Vicki J. Karlan, Joana Catalasan, and Donald E. Morisky
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 113-126
Influence of Social Context on Eating, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behaviors of Latina Mothers and Their Preschool-Age Children
Ana C. Lindsay, Katarina M. Sussner, Mary L. Greaney, and Karen E. Peterson
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 81-96
Patient—Provider Communication: Understanding the Role of Patient Activation for Latinos in Mental Health Treatment
Dharma E. Cortes, Norah Mulvaney-Day, Lisa Fortuna, Sarah Reinfeld, and Margarita Alegría
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 138-154
Multiethnic Populations
Estimates of Intraclass Correlation for Variables Related to Behavioral HIV/STD Prevention in a Predominantly African American and Hispanic Sample of Young Women
Sherri L. Pals, Brenda L. Beaty, Samuel F. Posner, and Sheana S. Bull
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 182-194
Lunchtime Practices and Problem Behaviors Among Multiethnic Urban Youth
Tracy R. Nichols, Amanda S. Birnbaum, Kylie Bryant, and Gilbert J. Botvin
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 570-582
Native Americans
A Cervical Cancer Community-Based Participatory Research Project in a Native American Community
Suzanne Christopher, Allison L. Gidley, Bethany Letiecq, Adina Smith, and Alma Knows His Gun McCormick
Health Educ Behav 2008;35 821-834
Refugee Populations
Witnessing Violence Across the Life Course, Depressive Symptoms, and Alcohol Use Among Older Persons
Sha Juan Colbert and Neal Krause
Health Educ Behav 2009;36 259-277
Arabic, Chronic Illness, Diabetes-39, Journal, Tests, Translating
In Uncategorized on 30 May 2009 at 23:51
Title tells it all. Not an easy thing to translate a test and still have it be valid. Haven’t read the article to see if it is checked crossculturally, that is, do the items have the same signigicance in a variety of cultures that Arabic-literate patients are in. Same question comes up across class; sometimes people with similar socioeconomic backgrounds have more in common with others from their same class although of difference nationalities than than with others sharing nationality but not class. The poor around the world may have more in common than the very rich of their own country.
The Arabic version of Diabetes-39: psychometric properties and validation
Yousef S. Khader, Safaa Bataineh, and Waleed Batayha
Chronic Illness 2008;4 257-263
AIDS, Communication Disorders, Health Literacy, Healthcare, HIV, JIAPAC, Journal, Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care
In Uncategorized on 30 May 2009 at 23:25
In case someone hasn’t caught on yet, health literacy is impossible without language accessibility. How important is health literacy? Lives depend on it.
These are from the Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care.
Association Between Health Literacy and HIV Treatment Adherence: Further Evidence from Objectively Measured Medication Adherence
Seth C. Kalichman, Howard Pope, Denise White, Chauncey Cherry, Christina M. Amaral, Connie Swetzes, Jody Flanagan, and Moira O. Kalichman
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 317-323
Nonadherence Increases the Risk of Hospitalization Among HIV-Infected Antiretroviral Naïve Patients Started on HAART
Sarah J. Fielden, Melanie L. A. Rusch, Benita Yip, Evan Wood, Kate Shannon, Adrian R. Levy, Julio S. G. Montaner, and Robert S. Hogg
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 238-244
and this:
Promoting HIV Literacy
José M. Zuniga
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 215-216
and finally this:
Profile of Communication Disorders in HIV-Infected Individuals: A Preliminary Study
Mili Mary Mathew and Jayashree S. Bhat
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 223-227
In Uncategorized on 30 May 2009 at 19:56
From being determined to post daily to nothing for four months is not a good record. Not only is it a disappointment but it also leaves me with bunches of stuff to post. So not only do I have years past to put up, I also have four months of recent things. Don’t have a solution yet. Wanted something elegant and afraid the best I’ve come up with is throw it all at the wall as quickly as possible, leave out tags and forget about coherence.
At least I’m not going to fool myself with “I’ll go back later and sort it out.”
Interpreting, Journal, Open Journals, PKP, Public Knowledge Project, Trans-Int, Translating, Translation & Interpreting
In Interpreting, Journal, Online resource on 3 February 2009 at 05:35
Translation & Interpreting looks like a very promising journal for a host of reasons. First, it’s got a dynamite board of editors and reviewers. Even if I don’t always agree with Sandra Hale she’s got quite a reputation. Second, it wants to link research, training and practice. So far in interpreting they’ve been three completely distinct arenas.
I don’t understand the italics in the title. Is it Trans-Int, or Translation & Interpreting, or just Translation & Interpreting? I don’t know.
Anyway, the first issue is pending. There’s already a conference announcement on the site.
Interpreting, Journal, Mutatis Mutandis, PKP, Public Knowledge Project, Translating
In Interpreting, Journal on 2 February 2009 at 18:44
Mutatis Mutandis is a brilliant name for a translation journal. It’s a multi-lingual translation journal from el Grupo de investigación en Traductología at the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia.
It is billed as “Latin American Translation Journal” in English but bears similar headings in Spanish, Portuguese, French and German. The homepage also gives a choice of languages available: German, English, Canadian French, Croatian, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Vietnamese and Turkish. Read the rest of this entry »
Library, National Library of Medicine, National Network of Libraries of Medicine, NIH, NNLM, Website
In Online resource on 15 January 2009 at 08:59
I can’t take credit for finding this site. It was recommended on LANTRA. Anyway, this is a great site. There’s a blog, and links, and references… You want more?
It’s a library site!
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2009, Alternative medicine, Complementary medicine, Folk remedies, Hispanic, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Leslie Martinez
In Mexican-American on 6 January 2009 at 04:58
Here it is: The first folk medicine article! This uses the highfalutin’ term “Complementary and Alternative Medicine” but don’t let it fool you. It’s cures like Gramma used to use.
In my family we’ve used the potato peel poultice to draw out poisons associated with inflammation and fever. It’s cheap, it’s messy, it works. Who could ask for more from a miracle cure?
Actually, that, according to this article, is only part of the draw. Two other factors of traditional folk medicine users are low self-ratings of health and mistrust of doctors. Of “mainstream” complementary and alternative medicine—maybe acupuncture, biofeedback, and hypnosis—it’s high self-ratings of health and advanced education.
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Bureau of Census, Disability
In Disability on 5 January 2009 at 09:39
The latest version of the Bureau of Census‘ “Americans with Disabilities: 2005” is out. It features statistics sliced, diced and served cross-ways. Among the tidbits:
- The highest level of disabilities are found among Blacks and among women.
- Persons over 80 years old have the greatest level of disability and need for assistance.
- The statistics between ages 15 and 44 are basically flat, rise for 45-54 year olds, but are nearly tripled for 55-64 year olds.
- Of the general population, 18.7% report some level of disability.
- Hearing loss affects 7.8 million and 4.3 million of these wear hearing aids (although 1.8 million report no help from them); 2.5 million say they have trouble having their speech understood but this is not specifically linked to hearing status.
- Disabled people report 45.6% employment vs. 83.5% non-disabled employment but earn $600/month less.
Just for the sake of laying it out there, the population breakdown is White (non-Hispanic), Black, Hispanic, Asian.
2008, Child Language Teaching and Therapy, Language development, Linguistics, Special education, Table of contents
In Journal on 5 January 2009 at 08:51
Here’s the October 2008 table of contents for Child Language Teaching and Therapy. It’s a treasure trove for interpreters working with children. Topics range from eliciting clarification of ‘child-speak’ to natural responses of children to adult speech to intervention strategies in a couple of language disorders.
Health disparities, Krysia Mossakowski, Mental health, Race and ethnicity, Research on Aging, Socioeconomic status
In Health disparities on 5 January 2009 at 08:41
Health disparities, gotta love ‘em. It’s desperately hard work figuring out why one group of people have different health status, outcomes or treatment than another. Could it really be something as simple as the color of their skin or their country of origin? As far as some researchers can tell, it is. In some cases there is something about the difference itself that causes the difference. In other cases it is the social position of the group with the difference that causes it.
This study looks at the convergence of race, economic status and depression. I haven’t read the article itself and so present it with some trepidation. These are very complicated issues. Too small a sample may result in unmerited generalizations. Too large a sample can muddy up the conclusions. It’s difficult to find samples that don’t lend themselves to stereotyping. Finding samples that break down cleanly into categories is tough. Are the categories artificially imposed? If so, they may be meaningless to the research.
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2006, Theory of mind, Pietro Boscolo, Frog, Where Are You?, Cause and effect, Deaf education, Coherence, Barbara Arfé
In Deaf, Special populations on 5 January 2009 at 06:03
As I understand it, causal coherence is the ability to link cause and effect not only in writing but as a cognitive exercise. In other words, it has two steps: making the link between cause and effect in the mind, and then expressing it. This paper, “Causal Coherence in Deaf and Hearing Students’ Written Narratives“, looks at differences in how Deaf and hearing students do this in writing. An interesting sidenote is that the stimulus, “Frog, Where Are You?” is standard in working with a variety of language populations and ages in part because it has no text.
Please note that the word is CAUSAL not CASUAL. This mistake drives me nuts. The paper is not about casual coherence, as if structures that hold a narrative together are informal. It is a study of how Deaf students’ writing reveals their thinking of cause and effect.
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2006, Gesture, Interpersonal communication, Journal of Cognition and Development, Learning, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Susan Wagner Cook, Teaching
In Patient teaching on 2 January 2009 at 06:35
I am a fan of Susan Goldin-Meadow. First off, she has a great name. Beyond that, she asks the most intriguing questions, writes clearly, and develops good research design. If that weren’t enough, her field specifically fascinates me: the confluence of gesture, language, cognition and learning. Fortunately, she’s produced a tremendous body of work.
This article, The Role of Gesture in Learning: Do Children Use Their Hands to Change Their Minds?, in the same issue of Journal of Cognition and Development as the previous post on ToM, looks at the role of gesture in teaching and learning. It doesn’t look at interpreting but after reading it think of this question: If gesture has such an important role in learning, what happens when the teaching is interpreter-mediated? Is there a change if an intepreter produces a rendition which is text without gesture?
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2006, False belief understanding, Henry M Wellman, Jennifer Amsterlaw, Journal of Cognition and Development, Microgenetic studies, Theory of mind
In Child development on 2 January 2009 at 05:46
One of the challenges of interpreting for Deaf patients is that as children they are delayed in developing Theory of Mind (ToM). It is my experience that the development is not as straightforward under some circumstances for deaf children as it is for hearing children; whether this is a deficit or difference I am not qualified to comment on. Of course, Deaf people are not a homogenous population and there are a number of factors that contribute to the delay. Some seem to be lack of linguistic input, co-occurring disability, imperfect early socialization and possibly attachment.
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2006, Elaine Hsieh, Health communication, Interpreter training, Interpreter-mediated communication, Interpreting
In Health Care on 1 January 2009 at 18:01
It seems appropriate to start with the oldest articles in my storehouse first and it turns out that this is one of the ones I value most. The article is “Understanding Medical Interpreters: Reconceptualizing Bilingual Health Communication” from Health Communication, September 2006 (vol 20, No 2, pp. 177-186) and it’s by Elaine Hsieh. She’s written quite a bit about medical interpreting but seems not to be widely known. She deserves to be; she’s got some really intetresting perspectives. Among them is the fact that she recognizes the interpreter’s influence as a participant in an interpreter-mediated encounter.
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In Administrative on 1 January 2009 at 13:58
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