Sign Language Brokering in Deaf-Hearing Families

Jemina Napier is Chair of Intercultural Communication at Heriot-Watt University, UK, and is currently the Director of the Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland and Director of Research in the School of Social Sciences. Jemina is a heritage signer from a multigenerational deaf family and has practised as a sign language interpreter since 1989.

• Chapter 1: Signing Deaf Communities and Language Brokering.- Chapter 2: Child Language Brokering in Context.- Chapter 3: Doing Research on Sign Language Brokering.- Chapter 4: ‘I Am Who I Am Today Because of My Family’: International Attitudes Towards Sign Language Brokering.- Chapter 5: ‘My Experience Was Just Part of My Life’: Life, Shame and Brokering.- Chapter 6: ‘I Can’t Not Help Them’: Brokering as Responsibility and Cooperation.- Chapter 7: Understanding the Implications of Sign Language Brokering.